[-empyre-] Karen O'Rourke

[Karen O'Rourke]

Hi everyone,

I am an artist and writer based in Paris, France, and a Maître de 
conférences at the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). My art 
projects include /City Portraits, Paris Réseau, AAA (Archiving as Art), 
A Map Larger than the Territory, Eavesdroplets /and/Partially Buried 
University/.

My book /Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers /(2013)//has just 
been published by the MIT Press. In it, I explore a series of 
walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. Some chart "emotional 
GPS"; some use satellites for creating landscapes made of data 
--"datascapes"-- while others use their legs to do "speculative 
mapping." Earlier publications include /Paris Réseau/Paris Network/ 
(2000), a bilingual CD-Rom, /Archiving as Art /(2000), an exhibition 
catalogue, and /Art-Réseaux/ (1992), an edited book documenting the 
collaborative activities of the Art-Réseaux group in the late 1980s and 
early 1990s.

With three colleagues at the Sorbonne and correspondents in France, 
Great Britain, Norway and the US, I am currently developing a collective 
project called /The End of Maps ?/ /Dream Territories, Standardized 
Territories/which will involve a series of workshops, a conference, a 
publication, and a database/archive of Art and Mapping projects.

I also have several book projects in the works: /Des arts-réseaux aux 
derives programmées /(adaptation of my habilitation thesis from 2011) 
and /Spatial Storytelling/ are in varying stages of completion. /The 
Gift (After Lewis Hyde and Marcel Mauss)/ is a crazy idea I got in the 
train the other day/. /

More info:

http://karenorourke.wordpress.com/ (blog)

http://korourke.pagesperso-orange.fr/ (older stuff)

http://www.institut-acte.cnrs.fr/art-sciences/membre/karen/ 
(university/research)

Best,
Karen O'Rourke

mapper at wanadoo.fr

-- 
Karen O'Rourke

Maître de conférences HDR à l'Université Paris 1
47, rue des Bergers
75015 Paris (France)

karenorourke.wordpress.com
korourke.pagesperso-orange.fr

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