Curated by Vandana Jain The Map Show explores maps as a chart, timeline, treasure map, family tree, blueprint, traveling from the realm of information into the subjective areas of truth and identity. These maps are crafted in wire and use the many maps sent to the Analogue Art Map for inspiration. 
September 2007 saw Map Me presented at The Change you Want To See, Havemeyer Street Brooklyn during the Conflux Psychogeography festival. Analogue Art Map had generous assistance installing the work from Vandana, Mike, Conflux and the Change you Want To See.
Photo by drayton in brooklyn
Photo by Frauke FotoA special shout out to Frauke Foto, aka Frauke Behrend who took many of these classy snaps and even wrote up Map Me in Conflux 07 on her blog: http://mobilesound.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/conflux-2007-map-me-by-hugh-davies/
We were happy to be recognisied as having inspired an unplugged social networking activity that Frauke was involved with at Media and Film Studies at Sussex University.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49689042@N00/1799115705/
Photo by doryexmachina For the first time Analogue Art Map promoted the event via Facebook. While the founding notion of Analogue Art Map is to recreate digital tendencies and technologies using non-digital media, some digital tools for marketing and comparison are useful. 
Photo by drayton in brooklyn
From 29 June to 9th July 2007 ANALOGUE ART MAP undertook a project to map Melbourne’s creative community. Visitors to the Wardlow Studio in Fitzroy were invited to leave a note, drawing, photo or anything else representing them to the gallery wall.
Connections between people are like invisible lines in the air and Analogue Art Map's project "Map Me" makes these social and professional bonds materialise by bringing the act of networking in to the visible world.
Over the course of the exhibition: Sincerity of Detail which also included works by studio resident Katie Breckon and award winning Melbourne painter Sam Leach, a network map of the Melbourne creative community emerged with coloured wool showing the links between people.
Referencing online networking platforms such as MySpace, Map Me brings virtuality back into reality, making both the act of networking, the connections and the people reappear in real time and space.
Map Me is one of Analogue Art Maps tactics with the purpose of highlighting the culture that surrounds current digital networking. By removing the technology, only the social phenomenon remains.
Thanks to Sam Leach and Katie Breckon and to Brodie of Wardlow Gallery http://www.wardlow.com.au/photos.html 
BROOKLYN MUD MAP
Hand drawn maps of the Brooklyn borough.
Presented as part of the 2006 Conflux festivl in Brooklyn, New York.
A mud map is a map a farmer draws on the ground for a passing traveler. It is rough and ready, not very detailed, and lacks nuance. The scale may be inaccurate, but the map has the details needed for the journey. onemansweb.org
A MUD map is a schematic for a Multi-User Dungeon, Domain or Dimension; a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role playing games, hack and slash style computer games and social chat rooms. wikipedia.org
Working with only a biro and a camera, and with no knowledge of the area, Hugh Davies representing Analogue Art Map spent the 2006 Conflux Festival seeking hand drawn maps from locals in the Brooklyn NY area. These maps gave directions to sources of food, water and rest as well as to possible points of interest. As each map begins where the last ended, the maps link together to form a linear journey or narrative told by multiple authors.
Ultimately, the maps are psychological map of the Brooklyn landscapes resources, traditions and stories from the point of view of how locals understand it, as well as how they believe visitors might best experience and interpret it. When you ask someone to send you anywhere, you place a lot of trust in them. People react to this in different ways. Some returned the trust by drawing me maps to their favorite places to enjoy for myself. Others saw it as a challenge to either come up with the ideal location or alternately to send me on wild adventure. Ultimately, the places I ended up and the journeys to get there were not as important to me as the directions I received. These cool little drawings, expressive and practical, each as unique as any work of art, but none considered as such in the making.
http://confluxfestival.org/projects.php?projectid=268
FOLLOW A MAP YOURSELF!
During the Analogue Art Map presentation at Mcaig-Welles Gallery in Brooklyn, two guys dropped by and made this detailed map, which due to time restrictions I didnt have a chance to follow.
But you can.
If you are interested in taking the tour for yourself, click on, save and print the map and watch the video below for a walk through. But please contact us with any feedback, recording, or even your own maps post taking the tour. It is very important that we recieve ongoing public input in order to continue our important work.
