Event Title
Visualizing the Mappable and Unmappable; Mapping the Movida
Location
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Start Date
3-11-2017 10:00 AM
End Date
3-11-2017 11:00 AM
Description
Visualizing the Mappable and Unmappable in Spenser's Fairie Queene
Spenser's Faerie Queene is a British epic of paramount significance to the history of Britain. The knights and ladies that inhabit its pages experience perilous difficulties and arduous tasks as they traverse the broad territory of Fairyland and beyond. Considering its importance to history and to literature, we embarked on an arduous journey ourselves to attempt to map the multifarious locations wherein the events of the book take place. We discovered actual locations that could be pinpointed on a map, but we also had to work to uncover the locations that were not so explicit and which we could only speculate upon based on other literary works or on Spenser's own writings. We also encountered purely allegorical locations within Fairyland which could not be accurately identified with an actual location, thus posing questions that would arise from trying to identify these supposedly unmappable locations. Our project would be a demonstration of what we are doing with digital mapping tools, along with our plans for the future of the project as we continue to add locations: actual, speculative, and allegorical. Other future considerations are to map characters and relationships, perhaps through a program like Twine; we also are looking into tagging key terminology to match with locations and characters. All of these plans are designed to be used as a tool for scholars interested in studying the epic via digital tools created specifically for this book, but it will also be useful for any Early Modern scholar of literature, history, religion, etc.
Mapping the Movida: Visualizing Counterculture in Late 20th-Century Spain
"Mapping the Movida is an open web archive and geo-spatial project that visualizes the cultural and creative hubs and networks of the Movida madrileña, a sociological phenomenon and cultural renaissance that emerged in the first decade of Spanish democracy (roughly 1976-1986), most notably in central Madrid. This project is a response to the limited scope of artists—mostly male and professionally active in the Spanish capital—historically associated with the Movida in mainstream press and scholarship. In its mission to bring to light uncharted human geographies—or, to borrow the title of HASTAC 2018's theme, the "Possible Worlds"—of the period, Mapping the Movida aims to: (1) re-create the Madrid of the Movida using a range of multimedia, data and thick mapping technologies that not only catalyze the present but also go back in time to document the Madrid of the past; (2) visualize creative networks and cultural hubs of the Movida through various cultural lenses—including national Spanish media outlets (El País, ABC, El Mundo), scholarly articles, and subcultural publications from the period (La Luna de Madrid, El Víbora, Ozono, Madrid Me Mata, and zines)—to reveal how each lens represents the Movida in different and/or similar ways; (3) create a public archive and searchable database of Movida events and artists' documented movements in Madrid during the Movida (1976-1986); and (4) de-colonize the geographies of the Movida by revealing new spaces, artists, and socio-economic classes that problematize the cultural and spatial canon of the Movida.
This talk will cover the technical, archival, and theoretical concerns that have arisen during the various stages of project development, and focus, in particular, on how Mapping the Movida has changed the scope of what has been historicized and canonized as the ‘culture of the Movida' over the last approximately 40 years. At stake in the findings of this project are both the scope of received wisdom about the cultural geographies of Madrid during this period and the revelation of many minority artists who have yet to be studied and imagined within the corpus of so-called Movida artists and texts."
Visualizing the Mappable and Unmappable; Mapping the Movida
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Spenser's Faerie Queene is a British epic of paramount significance to the history of Britain. The knights and ladies that inhabit its pages experience perilous difficulties and arduous tasks as they traverse the broad territory of Fairyland and beyond. Considering its importance to history and to literature, we embarked on an arduous journey ourselves to attempt to map the multifarious locations wherein the events of the book take place.
