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Artist Keywords: Identity of place
Artist Keywords: mapping

Tags supplied by Dr. Jana Harper, of Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library Keywords: Artists' books -- Italy
Library Keywords: Architectural photography -- Japan
Library Keywords: Factories -- Pictorial works
Library Keywords: Aerial photography -- Japan

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Title Description - Gruppo A12 is a collective of architects founded in Genoa, Italy in 1993 whose work occupies the territory between architecture, urbanism and contemporary art. It takes the form of graphic design, video, installation, interior architecture, and exhibition design. This book, a project done for the Artist's Book Series at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan, gets its name from the Global Positioning receiver that the artists used to draw a map of Kitakyushu. The introduction on the cover of the book explains : The GPS is a military device developed by the US Army. The CAD software we are using to transform the co-ordinates that we are collecting into a drawing also is a technique developed for the US Air Force. And knowing that Kitakyushu was the supposed target instead of Nagasaki of the atomic bomb adds a more bizarre feeling... 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).

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