A Critical Reframing of Geovisualization for Community-Based Applications
Topics: Communication
, Cultural Geography
, Geographic Information Science and Systems
Keywords: Geographic Visualization, Visualization, Communication, Art, Geographic Theory, Cultural Ecology, Geographic Information Systems
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Monday
Session Start / End Time: 2/28/2022 11:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/28/2022 12:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 27
Authors:
Stephanie Zeller, University of Texas at Austin
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Abstract
“Language [is] absolutely teeming with metaphors that are often invisible to us,” writes Melanie Mitchell in her book, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. “But our understanding of essentially all abstract concepts comes about via metaphors based on core physical knowledge.” As significant work in both geography and the arts demonstrates, our engagement with the physical shapes our understanding of and our relationship to the world, ourselves, and both human and nonhuman others. Continuously revealed by the pervasiveness of physical metaphor to scaffold language, art, and thought, our sense of place is deeply informed by our embodied experiences and our visual surrounds situated within complex socio-cultural milieus. Rapidly advancing computational technology, however, has irrigated a culture that is profoundly unmoored from these physical and material relationships, widening the gap between the lay public and a scientific research process that has become so specialized and opaque, the average American can no longer connect with its resulting data. This outsourcing, abstracting, and hyper-personal target marketing of information has crippled a system of knowledge-production and communication built on relational trust and a recognition of experience-based truths within larger, institutional messaging. If ideological structures are fundamentally grounded in physical experience, place, and community, how might ethical scientific communication practices evolve to more effectively engage with diverse communities? I propose that a reconceptualization of geovisualization, based in the fine arts, has the potential to bridge this gap. In this paper, I explore the potentials of reimagining geovisualization through traditional collectivist art practices.
A Critical Reframing of Geovisualization for Community-Based Applications
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