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The Oxford Seminars in Cartography — Artful Maps: the Visual Culture of Cartography

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Online (Oxford), UK
Organisation: Bodleian Libraries
Bringing TOSCA’s 30th year to a close, this interdisciplinary conference explores how art affects cartography’s processes, products, and personnel. Ranging broadly over types of map, areas of the world, and time periods, the conference considers how the visual qualities of maps attract and entice, but also deceive and obfuscate; how artists have attended to maps in their practice; how aesthetic choices made by cartographers influence the message their maps convey – explicitly or implicitly; and what constitutes an artistically successful map/
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Venue: Online (Zoom)
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