ARTS 122

Art 122: Advanced Digital Projects Mapmaking as Art: Google Maps and Google Earth as Artistic Tools and Environments
We humans have made maps to help us understand our world and our place within it for thousands of years. Maps help us find places we know and let us imagine places we don't know. Maps can be useful, political, poetic and whimsical. They are loaded with meaning, and artists have a long history of making maps as an artistic expression. The Web and the Internet has provided unprecedented access to map making tools and ways to publish maps. While mapmaking historically was a privilege of the ones in power, and more recently a craft of trained professionals, today anyone can make and publish their personally annotated maps with online tools such as My Google Maps. In this class we will investigate and participate in this new mapmaking paradigm, making our own artistic and conceptual maps using Google Earth, My Google Maps, the Google Maps/Earth APIs and JavaScript. We will also use the programming language Perl to add real time data to our maps. Time: W 12:00 PM-4:50 PM Room: Old Gym (Building 479) E-Studio (1211) Instructor: Lisa Jevbratt

Week 1 (Wed 1/5)
Lecture:	Map Art, Google Earth (links, also see art links below)

Week 2 (Wed 1/12)
Due:	Google Earth Intro Exercise and Reading 1

Lecture:	Google Earth/KML (and Perl + SketchUp)

Examples:	Basic KML: 1_simple.kml blob_detail.kmz link_location_1.kml (does not work in GE 6) link_location_2.kml (does not work in GE 6) lost.kml (after Kathy Prendergast) nodirections.kml (removing from to in the description) More advanced KML: Population Mapping by Geo Vittoratos Layered Earth by Will Satzinger KML projects using network link and perl: random_start.kml random_start_only_land.kml feeling_start.kml island_start.kml island_start_mask.kml random_island_loc.pl time_start.kml you_are_here_start.kml The "starter" KML from Luke's youtube project The perl file from Luke's youtube project Sketchup: Manual Using Sketchup with Google Earth MAC PREVIEW PROBLEM Terra Technologica, Charles Choi (KMZ) Untitled, Travis Jepson (KMZ) Untitled, Travis Jepson (KMZ)
Week 3 (Wed 1/19)
Due:	Google Earth Research

Class content:	Student Research Presentations, Lab
Week 4 (Wed 1/26)
Due:	Google Earth Project

Lecture:	Javascript, Google Maps API Intro

Examples:	Simple Javascript example Google Maps API: Google Maps API Reference Just a Map Simple Markers Simple Info Window Image Overlay Polygon Overlay More Complex Polygon Overlay A visually intersting Google Maps project from last year. It is not made in the same version of the API as we are usng so DON"T copy the code from it.
Week 5 (Wed 2/2)
Due:	Google Maps Intro Exercise

Lecture:	Javascript, Google Maps API
Examples:	Google Maps API Examples Read xml file with markers Read xml file with markers and infowindows Move together Geo location
Week 6 (Wed 2/9)
Due:	Google Maps API Research

Class content:	Student Research Presentations, Lab
Week 7 (Wed 2/16)
Due:	Google Maps Project
Week 8 (Wed 2/23)
Due:	Final Project Proposal and Reading 3
Feb 25/26:	CONFERENCE: Mapping Place: GIS and the Spatial Humanities
Week 9 (Wed 3/2)
Due:	Final Project Report
Week 10 (Wed 3/9)
Due:	Final Project



Required reading (Some links have to be accessed from campus or by using VPN, see further down the page.):	Reading 1: a, "The Whole Earth, Catalogued - How Google Maps is changing the way we see the world" by Evan Ratliff in Wired July 2007 pdf html b, "Google Earth helps yet worries government" By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY, Nov 2008 c, (Click on "PDF Full Text") "Map Art" by Denis Wood, in Cartographic Perspectives, Number 53, Winter 2006 Reading 3: (Click on "PDF Full Text") "Art-Machines, Body-Ovens and Map-Recipes: Entries for a Psychogeographic Dictionary" Kanarinka, in Cartographic Perspectives, Number 53, Winter 2006

Suggested reading:	(Many of these links can only be accessed on campus or via the VPN, see below) Tech Help Javascript Tutorial Books from Safari online books: Google Maps Hacks by Rich Gibson, Schuyler Erle Learning Perl, 4th Edition By Brian D Foy, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz Mapping Hacks by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh Google Hacks by by Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch, Tara Calishain Learning JavaScript by Shelley Powers Ajax Hacks by Bruce W. Perry "DIVE INTO GOOGLE MAPS, GOOGLE EARTH, AND SKETCHUP 3D" in Google Apps Hacks by Philipp Lenssen Map Culture/Art/Theory Deconstructing the Map, JB Harley (Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization) Cultures of Map Use, Chris Perkins (Cartographic Journal) A Cultural Interpretation of Inuit Map Accuracy, Robert A. Rundstrom (Geographical Review) An Introduction to Critical Cartography, Crampton and Krygier Is Google Earth, "Digital Earth?" - Defining a Vision, Karl E. Grossner Presentation: Lisa Parks, "Earth-Browsing: Satellite Images, Global Events and Visual Literacy" Mapping Mashups: Participation, Collaboration and Critique on the World Wide Web

Software:	TextWrangler, a good text editor (similar to BBEdit). (free) (Mac) JEdit, text editor for Mac and PC. (free) Filezilla, sftp client for Mac and PC. (free) Putty, an ssh client for PC. (free) UCSB VPN client (for accessing the online book storage Safari and academic articles, data etc.)

Map Related Art	Student Projects Google Earth: Several projects from 2010 The Never Ending Medium of Media, Luke DePass (KML download, view in google earth) Terra Technologica, Charles Choi Population Mapping by Geo Vittoratos Layered Earth by Will Satzinger Google Maps: Several projects from 2010 Where, Luke Depass (reload five or so times to get it going) "Lets Feel Together" Reggie Knopoff Vanessa Zucker Jessica Mendez Other: "Rainbow Map" Luxi Ye Google Earth Angie Waller, The Most Boring Places in the World Christian Nold, Biomapping, Jan 2004 - ongoing Biomapping KLM Google Maps TIM SZETELA, Imagined Locations,2008 - 2009 Google Is Not The Map (2008) - Les Liens Invisibles googlemirageview (2009) - Zak Loyd Starbucks Center of Gravity (2005) - Cory Arcangel bodega list (2009) - Jeff Sisson bodega list (2009) - Jeff Sisson Blue Monochrome Carlo Zanni, Self Portrait With Dog, 2008 STREET WITH A VIEW: a project by Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley STREET WITH A VIEW: a project by Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley STREET WITH A VIEW: a project by Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley Garbagescout Fata Morgana by Damon Zucconi, 2010 The Earth as Display Hello World! Lisa Jevbratt: Hej Gud Net Art Google is not the map, Les Liens Invisibles Imagined Locations Eternal Sunset Participatory confluence.org Institute for applied autonomy, i-See Map Interface to The Center for Land Use Interpretation's database The City Formerly Known as Cambridge, Kanarinka Average Point of Interest, Lee Walton Psychogeography One Block Radius Christian Nold, Biomapping, Jan 2004 - ongoing Biomapping KLM Installation Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison Drawings/Paintings Etc. 12 Inches of Weather, Kanarinka Kathy Prendergast, Lost Nikolas Schiller Jaoquin Torres-Garcia, Inverted map of America, 1936 Composite Group Dream Map, Night of 23/24 August by Susan Hiller, 1974 Fields on a Map (Meschers, Gironde) by Ellsworth Kelly, 1950 Francesca Berrini Sculptural Mcclure "Map of the world" EMF Displacement Shows/Sites Some Online Map Art Projects Six Contemporary Artists Who Use Maps in Their Work The Map Is Not the Territory iii The Map Room: Art Experimental Geography Historical Old Cartographical Curiosities

Map Blogs Etc	Worldofexperience.com Creativemapping blog Google Earth Community Google Earth News Letter Jan 2008 Ogle Earth - a blog about google earth Google Sightseeing Blog "Cool Google Maps"

Google Earth KML/KMZ	Help: Google Earth Home Page Google Earth Userguide KML Info Marking Locations Editing Ballons KML Documentation KML Reference KML Tutorial About Google Earth Map Projection Sketchup Home Page Using Sketchup with Google Earth MAC PREVIEW PROBLEM Make a Embedded KML Viewer to view your KML project inside a web browser. Misc KML Projects: Google Earth Gallery Google Earth Sigthseeing: Snowball Google Earth Flight Animation (kmz file) 3D Model Warehouse gearthhacks 3D Model Warehouse Various Katrina KML Projects Some NASA data Misc: Dubai World Islands

Google Maps (and Earth) API etc	Help: My Google Maps Google Maps API Google Earth API Site for making and sharing google map shapes (for example country boundaries) GM Style Wizard Javascript Tutorial Google Maps API Tutorial Making Custom Markers Marker Generator Google Maps Projects (Mashups): www.programmableweb.com mapki.com Google Maps Mania Blog Misc: Lenin

Misc:	Latitude and longitude formats Eskimo Map made of drift wood Monumental Land Art of the United States John Snow's Famous Cholera Epidemic Map (1855) The Vinland Map Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results John Snow's Famous Cholera Epidemic Map (1855) USGS Placenames (Search Online or Download a file with all placenames in the US) Placenames Google Moon Maps Censored locations in Holland Censored locations in Sweden Google Earth Video of Mazes Google Earth Hacks Rhizome.org (New Media Art)

Basic KML:

More advanced KML:

Sketchup: