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

我的博士项目是通过当代视觉文化中的实验制图实践来探索数字地图上空间知识的形成。研究的重点是时间维度的作用，包括实时技术和短时间的现象，在塑造空间知识和检查地图制作过程。本文中的这些实践涉及艺术家和个人创作者重塑数字地图，挑战流行的数字地图软件和应用程序（如谷歌Map）对空间的官方和商业表征。研究问题包括实时技术如何在短时间内影响实验制图实践，地图制作中的时间模式，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在一起的尝试，本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，并与其他媒体研究和艺术史学者进行了讨论。这篇论文还结合了阿比·沃伯格关于文物的观点。通过探索数字地图的中介作用以及艺术创作与原始地图之间的相互作用，本研究有助于从技术、媒体和图像的综合角度讨论这些地图制作如何重塑和重新形成知识。该方法可以检查假地图的索引性、可寻址性和图像集的特征，以及它们如何有助于从虚假信息中形成知识。第二年的计划包括进一步探索相关艺术作品和设计项目，并关注通过技术调解的个人和政府关系的政治方面。本报告的文献综述部分讨论了三个主要主题，这些主题限定了我论文的研究领域：考虑艺术测绘项目与空间知识之间的关系，将数字测绘视为中介，以及地理学和社会学中的时空和时空辩论作为我的研究背景。位于这三个领域的交叉点，虽然没有完美的概述，但我的论文将自己定位在一个跨学科的方法中，包括批判理论，媒体考古学，艺术史，人文和文化地理学。

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.