Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

In her review of TCR 2-50 feature artist Gridlock: Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project, Sharla Sava writes that Hirsch “draws cartography into the realm of contemporary art. In doing so, it stresses the visual basis of world maps, and the many other occasions in which mapping has been positioned as a facet of the visual […]

TCR 2-50 contributor Sharla Sava emphasizes, in her essay Gridlock: Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project, that both the form and content of Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project attest to social transformations brought about by the advent of a post-industrial, globalised world system. Rather than stressing the sovereignty of the individual nation-state, Hirsch’s art mobilizes data […]

The front cover of The Cailano Review 2-50 “Artifice & Intelligence” is graced by a work by Vancouver-based artist Antonia Hirsch, called “Average Country.”

As Sharla Sava writtes, in her essay Gridlock: Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project: Online technologies have turned us all into potential cartographers. The digital collection and searchable database, NationMaster, for instance, provides […]

“But what has propelled the recent surge in mapping – in gathering and arraying data in visual form – which can be observed in such a wide array of disciplines?”
Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, “Where/Abouts,” in Else/where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories [1]
A while ago I received an email from my friend Antonia […]

The network as a model of both cultural creation and organisation retains a growing influence outside the Web, as is evident in Sharla Sava’s review of recent work by THR 2-50’s featured artist, Antonia Hirsch. Hirsch’s inventive reconstructions of cartographic information exemplify the visually abstract nature of modern knowledge, discovering in it a wealth of […]