A Synesthete's Atlas

Real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by
Eric Theise, in live collaboration with Bob Marsh’s SCAPE, the Spontaneous Combustion Arts Performance Ensemble.

A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Saturated colors. The subtlest of tints. Unreal spaces for formerly-real sounds. Glitches in crowdsourced data.Jittery zooms and pans.Orphaned information and free-floating symbology.

Since its Lisbon premiere in April 2022, A Synesthete's Atlas has been performed in a dozen-plus US cities in collaboration with improvising musicians, movement- and spoken word artists. Theise's projection platform is based on OpenStreetMap data, a collection of open source mapping libraries, and a few thousand lines of his own JavaScript code.

The performance will last 50 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers.

A suggested donation of $5-!0.

About the Artists- Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and realtime performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers and the Light and Space movement, occasionally incorporating letterform experiments inspired by concrete poetry, as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography.

https://erictheise.com/