Absent Monuments, Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok Russia November 5, 2016 – January 22, 2017 The video of our augmented reality Cornerstone Monument is on display in this fascinating exhibition in Vladivostok Russia. Here is a description of some of the pieces in this show: The monument to Russian Navy Admiral Vasily Zavoyko, which…
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The American Social Science Research Council Report has released a report entitled Religion Media and The Digital Turn by Professors Chris Cantwell and Hussein Rashid. It gives the Mapping Ararat project a prominent place and features it as one of four case studies out of the 160 projects that are listed in its index. The…
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We have been invited to be part of an exciting panel at the College Art Association’s annual meeting which will take place in Washington D.C February 4th, 2016, 2:30-5pm, Room: Washington 1, Exhibition Level. Our presentation is called “Mapping Ararat and Beyond: Augmented Reality Walking Tours for Imagined Jewish Homelands,” This invitation comes from Professor Victoria…
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We are pleased to report that Mapping Ararat was featured on the Religion in American History blog in an insightful article written by Professor Chris Cantwell (Univ. Missouri, Kansas City) that can be found here: http://usreligion.blogspot.ca/2015/05/mapping-ararat-new-to-me-digital.html Cantwell writes: “It’s part research, part art, and part speculative geography. But it’s all fascinating and is one of the most innovative projects…
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Louis Kaplan and Melissa Shiff gave a seminar entitled Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and The Site-Specific Digital Monument,” as part of the Summer Institute “Sights + Sites: Memory, Monuments and Place After the Digital Turn,”at York University, Toronto, May 12, 2015.
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Louis Kaplan gave the keynote lecture “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and the Design of an Imaginary Jewish Homeland,” at “Imagined Worlds,” York University Art History Graduate Student Symposium, York University, Toronto February 27, 2015.
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Mapping Ararat has been included in this prestigious volume on the current state of Jewish cultural studies. We are included in Laurence Roth’s chapter: Networks. We invite you to visit the webpage at the Routledge site.
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We are honored that Mapping Ararat has been included in Professor Adam Rovner’s newly published book In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel. The book devotes a full chapter to the Ararat plan of Mordecai Noah.
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Please click on this link to view the wonderful 4.5 minute video feature on Mapping Ararat posted at The Forward’s online edition on May 12, 2014.
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The April 3rd edition of The Canadian Jewish News features a lovely article on the Mapping Ararat project by Bill Gladstone. Please click on image below to read or follow this link to read the article at the Canadian Jewish News website.
Continue Reading →Mapping Ararat is made possible through a generous grant from the Insight Development Grant program of the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
