East Art Map – the book – is part of an ambitious interactive project to ‘(re)construct’ the history of contemporary art in Eastern Europe.

Orchestrated by IRWIN, the visual arts wing of the Slovenian culture collective NSK, but written by numerous writers and artists, it erratically traces the complex relationship between national identity and modernity, ideology and art. But which histories are preserved and which ideologies served ‒ asks Krzysztof Fijalkowski?

WSFII LIMEHOUSE TOWNHALL 2005

The most recent of a series of World Summits on Free Information Infrastructures, took place between the 1st and 3rd October 2005 at Limehouse Town hall in London. This gathering of free infrastructure developers of all kinds sought to create not only a convivial and 'open' space to represent practices and validate knowledge, but also effect its locality with some of the possibilities of free infrastructure practice.

After her active involvement in the recent Cartographic Congress at London’s Limehouse Town Hall, Marina Vishmidt was prompted to consider the problematics of contemporary cartography. With the emergence of collaborative mapping, open data systems, semantic webs and meta-mapping, the function of ‘the map’ in the information age has become as complex as the informatic topographies it rests upon.