NABA announces the talk “Cartografie radicali. Attivismo, esplorazioni artistiche, geofiction,” to be held on May 20 at 6:00 PM at the Real Academia de España en Roma (Piazza S. Pietro in Montorio 3, Rome). Starting with a presentation of Lorenza Pignatti's (NABA lecturer) homonymous book, published by Meltemi and dedicated to the relationship between art and cartography, the talk aims to include other figures mentioned in the text and active in the examined themes to deepen the transdisciplinary dialogue between the geographical and humanistic-anthropological fields.
Thus, the author will be in conversation with Juan Guardiola (director of the Fundación Díaz-Caneja in Palencia) and Maite Méndez Baiges (Art History lecturer and director of the Instituto de Investigación de género e Igualdad at the University of Málaga).
“Cartografie radicali. Attivismo, esplorazioni artistiche, geofiction”: the book by Lorenza Pignatti
In an era where digital cartography has radically transformed how we visualize, map, and navigate territories, some artists have used GeoTools to showcase the automation of algorithmic vision and to decode the functioning of the hardware that supports it. Given the pervasive tracking we are subjected to within a dense network of increasingly opaque technologies and devices, activists, and collectives, NGOs have redefined cartography, mapping and making visible issues of political ecology, gender, economic and social processes. In the book “Cartografie radicali. Attivismo, esplorazioni artistiche, geofiction,” Lorenza Pignatti explores the relationship between art and cartography with a survey of paradigmatic works: from the deambulations of the Dadaists and Surrealists to the Situationists' psychogeographical drifts, Marcel Broodthaers's geofiction, and the cartographic experiments of recent decades.
Together with the Gruppo Ippolita (an independent and interdisciplinary research group focused on digital culture, philosophy of computing, techno politics, and control capitalism), Juan Guardiola, Anna Castelli (art historian), and Franco La Cecla (anthropologist and architect), Pignatti further delves into the transdisciplinary dialogue between geographical and humanistic-anthropological fields.
“Cartografie radicali. Attivismo, esplorazioni artistiche, geofiction”: the talk details
Monday, May 20, from 6 PM
At Real Academia de España en Roma
Piazza di S. Pietro in Montorio, 3, Rome
Free Entrance