Two artists are featured in this post. The first is Robert Hodgin, who developed, as he called it, “a procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed.” For a brief description of […]
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(Art) The Abandoned Megacities of Paul Chadeisson
It’s hard not to read the work of freelance VFX artist Paul Chadeisson as a statement on climate change and civilizational collapse. But far from feeling preachy, his haunting megastructures inspire reflections of the deep […]
(Art) Maps of the Unreal
It is the fantastic lands that are more real, more present. The Europeans in love with darkest Africa were in love with a fiction. One only travels to real places for facts or money. They […]
Any Map Is Wrong
Fiona Owen — “Mundus Imaginalis” Gilded Globe (oil and gold leaf on gesso panel, 2012) An update to Depictions of the Cosmos.
(Art) The Future Meta-terrain of Colin Prahl
Colin Prahl’s art looks like a mix between a motherboard, a mall kiosk map, and a relief projection. Besides being visually fascinating, to me it manifests one of the paradoxes of life in the future, […]
