LONDON.- Mapping it Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies brings together the sharpest and most creative minds to rethink what maps can be and do for us in the twenty-first century. The results are inventive, visionary and unexpected. More than 130 leading figures from different fields – artists, architects, writers and designers, geographers, mathematicians, computer pioneers, scientists – make sense of exterior and interior worlds through highly personal and imaginative maps and charts.
Hans Ulrich Obrist has brought together a remarkable range of contributors including Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Yoko Ono, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Annette Messager, Susan Hiller, Ed Ruscha, David Adjaye, Christopher Stringer, J. Craig Venter, Tim Berners-Lee, John Maeda, Bruce Sterling, George F. Smoot, Dimitar Sasselov, Gino Segrè and Albert László Barabási.
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