"Maps orientate and determine the ways in which we perceive and understand the world and our place in it. Maps reveal and illuminate, but they also conceal and obfuscate. This year’s digital exhibition for FLEFF, Map Open Space, focuses on ways that mapping can be mobilized towards the concept of “open space.” Rather than defining and dividing, Map Open Space engages with technologies of mapping that act as radical cartography and radical historiography to invite new participation and facilitate new questions. By enlisting perspectives that often pass ignored or unrecognized, Map Open Space explores the interfaces and intervals of the digital, abstract, and immaterial with the localized, materialized, and grounded. Our selection for this year’s exhibition makes use of mapping in both practical and conceptual ways."The jurors for Map Open Space were Babak Fakhamzadeh (Iran/Netherlands) Ismail Farouk (South Africa) and Christina McPhee (United States).
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*Map Open Space Curators' Bios
Dale Hudson is an assistant professor at Texas State University–San Marcos. His work on global cinemas and new media appears in Afterimage, Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Screen, and Studies in Documentary Film. He has worked as a co-curator of new media art for FLEFF since 2006.
Sharon Lin Tay is an academic, theorist, and curator. She teaches film and digital theory at Middlesex University in London, England, and has co-curated the new media art exhibition for FLEFF for the last three years. Her new book about women filmmakers and digital artists, entitled Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices (2009), is published by Palgrave Macmillan.
