The mnemotechnical possibilities of fake mapping: How experimental practices in digital map-making shape knowledge in contemporary art

我的博士项目通过当代视觉文化中实验性制图实践的透镜探索数字地图上空间知识的形成。本研究着重探讨时间维度在空间知识形成中的作用，包括实时技术和作为现象的短时间，并考察了地图制作过程。在这篇论文中，这些实践涉及艺术家和个人创作者重塑数字地图，挑战官方和商业的空间表示流行的数字地图软件和应用程序，如谷歌地图。研究问题涉及实时技术如何在短期内影响实验制图实践，地图制作中存在的时间模式，以及视觉产品对理解当代历史和社会记忆的影响。作为将时间技术和空间知识结合起来的尝试，这个博士项目的理论框架借鉴了伯纳德·斯蒂格勒的记忆技术概念，沿着其他学者对媒体的讨论研究和艺术史。论文还结合了阿比瓦尔堡的思想，对文物。本研究通过探讨数字地图的媒介作用以及艺术再创作与原始地图的互动关系，从技术、媒体和图像的角度探讨数字地图如何对知识进行再塑造和再形成，并探讨数字地图的索引性、可寻址性、第二年的计划包括进一步探索相关的艺术品和设计项目，并关注政治方面的问题，在文献综述部分，笔者讨论了三个主要问题，即艺术制图项目与空间知识之间的关系、数字制图作为媒介以及地理学和社会学中的时空和时空之争作为研究背景。本论文处于这三个领域的交叉点上，虽然没有完全勾勒出来，但我的论文定位于一个跨学科的方法，包括批评理论，媒体考古学，艺术史和人文地理学。

My PhD project explores the formation of spatial knowledge on digital maps throughthe lens of experimental cartographic practices in contemporary visual culture. The studyfocuses on the role of temporal dimension, including real-time techniques and short periodof time as phenomenon, in shaping spatial knowledge and examines the map-makingprocesses. These practices in this thesis involve artists and individual creators reshapingdigital maps, challenging the official and commercial representations of space in terms ofpopular digital mapping software and applications such as Google Map. The researchquestions address how the real-time technologies influence experimental cartographicpractices in short duration, the temporal modes present in map-making, and the impact ofvisual products on understanding contemporary history and social memory.As an attempt to bring temporal technique and spatial knowledge together, thetheoretical framework of this PhD project draws from Bernard Stiegler's concept ofmnemotechnics into discussion along with other scholars on media studies and art history.The thesis also incorporates Aby Warburg's ideas on cultural artifacts. By exploring themediation of digital maps and the interaction between artistic recreation and original maps,the research contributes to a discussion on how these cartographic production can re-shapeand re-form knowledge from a combined perspective of technologies, media, and images.This approach can examine the characteristics of indexicality, addressability, and image atlasin fake maps and how they contribute to the knowledge formation from false information.The plan for the second year includes further exploration of relevant artworks and designprojects and a focus on the political aspects of individual and governmental relationshipsmediated through techniques.The literature review section of this report discusses three main topics whichcircumscribes the research field of my thesis: considering the relationship between artisticmapping projects and spatial knowledge, viewing digital mapping as mediation, and thetime-space and space-time debates in geography and sociology as background of myresearch. Situating in the intersection of these three areas, which is not perfectly outlinedthough, my thesis positions itself in an interdisciplinary approach encompasses criticaltheory, media archaeology, art history, and human and cultural geography.