Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Mapping Room symposium.

Recently we were invited to speak at the Mapping Room symposium. There are a huge range of map-related projects as part of this year's Fringe Festival and Melbourne Festival... as well as the Mapping Room you can catch the Interventionist Guide to Melbourne at Platform and Walk This Way to name only two. Below are the details of what's going on at the Mapping Room...

The Mapping Room: 25th September to the 4th October 2009.
Installation & Symposium.

The Mapping Room is an evolving installation of The Fringe Festival and The World. It charts both the concrete and the fleeting. Using live art, SMS, drawing, video and a lecture series to explore notions of scale, temporality and very human geography.

Head Quarters will be divided into cartographic sections with each section being inhabited by a different artists or company including: En Route by bettybooke, Take Off Your Skin (TOYS) by WELL, Emma Rochester, Robbie Dixon, Kelly Ryall, Analogue Art Map, Lara Thoms, Deadpan and more...

The Mapping Room will be evolving each day from 12-4pm.

On October 2nd from 6.30- 9.30 there will be artists talks and Dr. Fraser Macdonald, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Melbourne will speak.

You can read more about the Mapping Room at: http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/the-mapping-room

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Look out for our flyers around the city...


If you grab one, write down a short story of something that happened to you in the city and bring it into the gallery with you! We will be compiling all the cards together into a book of sorts...

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Mapping Out Our Every Move, The Age, Sept 12.

The Age writer Suzy Freeman-Greene writes,
"...At the City Library, meanwhile, visitors will be invited to map their memories in the iMap project. A giant map of the central business district (taken from the Melways) will cover the wall of the library's gallery. Visitors will be asked to write a brief account of something moving that happened to them in town. These stories will be attached to the corresponding place on the map.

The tales will be layered and fleeting, as memories often are. What will Flinders Street Station reveal? Or Celestial Lane at 2am? Local and handmade, this mapping project is about as far from Google Earth's all-seeing eye as you can get."
Read the full article at:
Although keep in mind that the dates they have published are incorrect!

Monday, September 7, 2009

Call for volunteers.

We want you!
Here are the following things that we're looking for people's involvement with:

Story collecting
Interested in learning more about the lives, stories and adventures of fellow Melbournians? Get involved in story collecting for the Imap project! You will receive training in story collecting/interviewing and in using sound equipment. In exchange we need you to spend two 1.5
hour shifts roving the CBD collecting stories for display as part of the Imap project

Gallery Sitting
Sitting the exhibition space, answering the odd query, and encouraging people to add their stories to the map. Yes, you can do your homework too!

Facilitating a mapping workshop
Helping run a map workshop in the exhibition space - getting people's contributions to the map under a particular theme (eg secret spaces, romance, melancoly etc)

No probs if you're too busy to help out at the moment - if so please send this info onto any friends or groups who may be interested in getting involved. Thank you!

Fringe Festival Program out!

Exciting news! The Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009 program is now out! Pick it up everywhere and flick to page 43:

Interested in learning more about the lives of fellow Melbourians? Visit the iMap project at the Melbourne City Library. The project uses a large scale map of the Melbourne CBD to collate people's experiences and visions of the city. Come and tell us what the city means to you!

Dates: 2nd - 29th October 2009
Venue: City library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Time: Mon - Fri 8am - 8pm, Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm
Tickets: Free!

Opening night: Wednesday 7th October, 5:45pm- all welcome!

Have a look at the Fringe website at: http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/i-map