vogmae interactive networked video practice

The notes haven't been included with the slides, as the slides will form the basis of a much more extensive essay.

A map intends to be instrumental in its relation to the world and to exhaust itself through this use value - a "good" map is that which most removes the distance between map and use value. Our everyday use of maps is quite distinct from this. Here we annotate maps informally and in these acts introduce affect. This creates a distance and distinction between the production of maps (their imagined uses) and the actual use of maps - a distinction that is compounded with the rise of 'prosumer' map technologies and practices. The affective atlas project intends to develop techniques, tools and theories that allow for the production of maps that bring together the instrumental and the affective through a reconsideration of map making and use.

Affect is the distance and difference between intent and achievable action. In the domain of maps affect is produced as the emotive remainder when maps are used as part of the everyday. When I use a map to walk in the bush, and then pencil in a discovered picnic spot (or even record the same site via my GPS) an excess is introduced where that point upon the map is now marked by memory, pleasure, grass, food, silence, lyrebirds and so on.