The seminar will focus on selected works, the artists who made them, and the individual and societal circumstances that influenced their appearance. Suggested readings and other sources for educators will be provided on request. Back to top Fourth Annual Creative Writing Spring Reading Join us for dessert and coffee and a reading by this quarter's Continuing Studies creative writing faculty. Doug Dorst will read from their works. Throughout history, humans have looked to maps as the preeminent means of recording and communicating information about the location and spatial characteristics of the natural world and of society and culture.
Maps are a form of visual communication, a special language for describing spatial relationships.
Cartographers have always used visual resources such as color, shape, and pattern to communicate information about spatial relationships. But now contemporary mappers, from scientists using remote sensing and applications of space science, to land artists to environmentalists, are exploring innovative ways of representing and imagining the earth. Join us for an afternoon of audio-visual demonstrations and presentations by some of the Bay Area's most interesting scientific and artistic mappers, as they explore the stories that maps tell. Violist Benjamin Simon will lead a brief analysis and discussion of the work, with musical examples, followed by a complete performance. Free to Spring quarter students.