I saw a great art exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art. In part, the show is exciting because of the connections to our upcoming unit. We will look at some of the ideas of the French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard as we study "White Noise. Baudrillard posits that media roots all of us a reality of simulation. Nothing is real--everything is a copy of a copy with no original. The exhibition explores interesting aspects of the individual's reality, colonialism, the American experience--many topics of interest to us. It's a great outing. I highly recommend it. If you are going to go, you could let me know. I live nearby. We can all chat about the work over coffee, or I could meet some of you at the museum. I need to see the show again.
Curated by Sarah Tanguy
Maps have been drawn since prehistoric times. Today, with the advent of GPS and Google Maps, they have infiltrated daily life more than ever before. In an era of global culture, artists are increasingly exploring maps as both image and cipher. Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art features paintings, works on paper, sculptures, videos, a sound installation, and a live web terminal to address such themes as borders and boundaries, identity and colonialism, journeys—both real and imagined, memory and nostalgia, and tourism and travel.
Encompassing the stars, the land, and the built environment, Mapping explores various strategies that artists use to track their subjects, distilling them into art objects and activities that choreograph location through time and space. Many of the artists incorporate actual maps into their imagery while others emphasize the act of mapping itself. Still others explore new technologies like satellite imaging, the Internet, and specialized computer software.
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