The City ‘The Hidden C ity’

1. The City‘The Hidden City’ For this topic I have been researching the physical city. Exploring the similarities between maps and human body cells. I want to show the links between the city and the people inside it. My map.

2. How different are the microscopic view of a tongue and a mountain range? A fixed neuron and the Tokyo subway map aren't very different either . The links between human cells and the city are more intertwined then I first thought. Over the past few weeks I have research many artist that have explored similar topics.

3. Sam Loman The artist created an illustration on the inner structure and workings of the human body using the different systems (arterial, digestive, muscular, respiratory, etc.) and reworking them to look like a subway map. ( just-sam.com )

4. Jonathon Rosen Johnathon is an illustrator from America. His work reminded me of the physical definition of a mind map.

5. Johnathon Rosen’s work reminded me of the maps of the body like that used in reflexology and massage. I thought it would be quite interesting to create an image based on this idea, by painting a map onto someone, like the body paint used for Gotye’s video for the song ‘Somebody that I used to know’. (below)

6. Census Maps of Dating Keywords These keyword maps by R. Luke Dubois associate each town with the terms most often used by locals to describe themselves and their desired partners on their online dating profiles.

7. Ed Fairburn Ed Fairburn is a Welsh artist, based in Cardiff, who creates faces in the maps, I just loved this idea and would like to explore it in my own work.

9. Kumi Yamashita This is an artist I have admired for a while now, she is from New York and is known prominently for her shadow scultures. However, she also creates beautiful portraits using only black thread and nails mounted on a white board.

10. From looking at Yamashita work thought it would be interesting to use materials other then string to create images. I had thought of using chewing gum. On our trip to London last week I found the artist, Georgina Starr, who created this brain out of chewed gum.

11. Head Sculpture by Nikki Rosato Artist Nikki Rosato removes the land masses, leaving nothing but the roads and rivers behind, reinforcing the paper with wire as necessary. Rosato told Wired UK: “Through the removal of the land masses, the places almost become ambiguous since all of the text is lost. Unless someone really knows the roads and highways, it is almost impossible to identify the place.”

12. Map Portraits by Matthew Cusick Matthew Cusick cuts apart maps to create collage portraits. The Dallas, Texas artist collects maps and cuts them apart according to colour and shade. But the particular maps chosen also have meaning in reference to the subject, he says. “The maps I choose for each work relate to that person’s timeline and history. I’ll use these maps as a surrogate for paint but also as a way to expand the limits of representational painting. Each map fragment is employed both as a brush stroke and a unit of information. The human form acts as a matrix in which inlaid maps from different places and times coalesce into a narrative.”

13. Dan Mountford This photographer I came across on flicker, he uses double exposure and Photoshop to combine the portraits and the buildings,

14. Patterns in Pieces of Maps Artist Shannon Rankin uses little discs of maps to create installations, collages and drawings “that use the language of maps to explore the connections among geological and biological processes, patterns in nature, geometry and anatomy. Using a variety of distinct styles I intricately cut, score, wrinkle, layer, fold, paint and pin maps to produce revised versions that often become more like the terrains they represent.”

15. Maps, Reorganized Armelle Caron takes the components that make up a city and lays them out according to size for a more tidy-looking result. The French artist displays the original maps alongside the decontextualized shapes.

16. Crime Rates as Topographic Maps Such hidden ‘landscape features’ are revealed when the city’s crime statistics are analysed as a 3D topographic map. Data visualization engineer Doug McCune shows how the city’s notorious hills can shift according to the type of crime, from larceny and vandalism to robbery and assault.”

17. ArcGIS “ArcGIS is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for: creating and using maps; compiling geographic data; analysing mapped information’’ On researching Doug McCunes art work I was curious as to how he created his maps, and on asking around I was told about ArcGIS which is, basically, the geologist's Photoshop.

18. ‘’Artist uses live cells to create new form of design’’ Wanting to relink the visual map and that found in our own bodies, came across an article in the ‘The Telegraph’ about a new technique which records the shapes made by human cells as they react in the body. • The top image is HL60 cells found in the blood • The bottom image is the hunger hormone filmed for 20 mins. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8383363/Artist-uses-live-cells-to-create-new-form-of-design.html )

19. Bacteria Art GFPixel Although this portrait looks digital it is created using about 4000 Petri-dishes. A work by Austrian media artist Gerfried Stocker and molecular biologist ReinhardNestelbacher. The works plays with the border between living world and the digital world, the portrait seems to be digital but it lives and dies during the exhibition.