num_pages: 168
description: A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibus notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories prisons and power plants in upstate New York. An artificial reef fabricated from 500 tons of industrial waste. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geography a groundbreaking collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years.Experimental Geography explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth as well as the juncture where the two realms collide (and possibly make a new field altogether). This lavishly illustrated book features more than a dozen maps; artwork by Francis Als Alex Villar and Yin Xiuzhen; and recent projects by The Center for Land Use Interpretation the Raqs Media Collective and the Center for Urban Pedagogy.The collection is framed by essays by bestselling author Trevor Paglen Jeffrey Kastner and editor Nato Thompson.
language: English
title: Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
publisher: Melville House