Tiberiu Chelcea:
The goal of the works in this series is to combine the visual languages of electronic design and maps. To do so, I am using a characteristic found in both printed circuit boards (PCBs) and maps: they are both layered representations of places or objects. PCBs, such as computer motherboards, are made up of wires sandwiched between flat layers of nonconductive materials. Similarly, a map is a layer of information added to a geometrically accurate representation of a place; for example, the shape of an island is represented to scale, and, on top of that, the cartographer adds color coded topological levels, cities, and roads
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In the process, the works blur the boundaries between the man-made and the natural, reimagining the tiniest of engineered components as vast landmasses; and they illuminate the connections between the ancient art of mapmaking and the very contemporary art of electronic design.
Text found in Tiberiu Chelcea's 2011 artist statement on the maps series.
The goal of the works in this series is to combine the visual languages of electronic design and maps. To do so, I am using a characteristic found in both printed circuit boards (PCBs) and maps: they are both layered representations of places or objects. PCBs, such as computer motherboards, are made up of wires sandwiched between flat layers of nonconductive materials. Similarly, a map is a layer of information added to a geometrically accurate representation of a place; for example, the shape of an island is represented to scale, and, on top of that, the cartographer adds color coded topological levels, cities, and roads
(...)
In the process, the works blur the boundaries between the man-made and the natural, reimagining the tiniest of engineered components as vast landmasses; and they illuminate the connections between the ancient art of mapmaking and the very contemporary art of electronic design.
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