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Counter Cartographies with Lize Mogel – MIT Center for Civic Media

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Artist and designer Lize Mogel came to the Center for Civic Media to discuss “Counter-cartography” a practice that uses maps and mapping to challenge the mainstream narrative of a site or history, from a political or activist perspective. Artist Lize Mogel creates and disseminates counter cartography, or mappings that produce new understandings of social and political issues. Working with the interstices between art and cultural geography, she connects the real history and collective imaginary about specific places to larger narratives about globalization. She has mapped public parks in Los Angeles, territorial disputes in the arctic and wastewater economies a.k.a. sludge in New York City. She is co-editor of the book/map collection An Atlas of Radical Cartography and co-curator of the traveling exhibition An Atlas. She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Danish Arts Council fo

VizThink by Willow Brugh Artist and designer Lize Mogel came to the Center for Civic Media to discuss “Counter-cartography” a practice that uses maps and mapping to challenge the mainstream narrative of a site or history, from a political or activist perspective. Artist Lize Mogel creates and disseminates counter cartography, or mappings that produce new understandings of social and political issues. Working with the interstices between art and cultural geography, she connects the real history and collective imaginary about specific places to larger narratives about globalization.

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