Trip to Toronto Free Gallery, Friday, Nov. 25, 2005

Tutorial this Friday, Nov. 25, will be at the Toronto Free Gallery and we will be welcoming a guest speaker, Zachary Devereaux, from Govcom.org, one of the exhibitors in the mapping show, to lead a workshop on critical mapmaking.

It'll be at the regular tutorial time: 10:30 am. Be there on time if you can, Zachary must leave by noon.

You'll find info on the Here Be Dragons exhibit for next Friday, Nov. 25 at either www.torontofreegallery.org or the HUMA 1650 web site. All of the artists/organizations exhibiting have a web presence, so a simple Google search from the list of contributors on the Toronto Free Gallery website will get you some background on them.

For those of you that couldn't make it this past Tues., you might also be interested in the mini-lecture I gave on the show. If you read this before tomorrow you'll have a better contextual grasp of Zachary's mapping workshop: Marcelo's introductory thoughts.

Two essays on critical cartography you'll be interested in: Richard Rogers' Why Map: The Techno-Epistemological Outlook and Brian Holmes' Flowmaps, the Imagninary of Global Integration. To find out more about Govcom.org, Zachary and Richard Rogers' organization, see www.govcom.org.

For tomorrow, here are directions to get to the gallery from York:

By TTC: Take the TTC at Downsview to the Osgoode stop, which is on the corner of University and Queen St. West, then take the street car heading east on Queen St. and get off at the first stop after the bridge over the Don Valley Parkway; the gallery will be on the north side of Queen.

By car from York University: Best thing to do is to Mapquest it. From York, go down Keele, turn left onto Sheppard, right on the Allen, left onto the 401, and right on the Don Valley Parkway all the way to King. Queen is several blocks north of King.