Participants currently needed in:Arctic, Norway, Britain, Russia, Spain, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Antarctica,Ecuador, Mexico, United States (Western), Canada (Northern)

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Arctic Tern Migration Sundial:
Jim Mason created this pathway marker in Barrow, Alaska at the beginning of the Arctic Tern's 40,000KM yearly migration. The marker is a sundial which uses the changes in solar elevation throughout the year to track the Tern's progress from the Arctic to Antarctica and back. Click for more artworks and coordination in the Arctic Tern Workroom.

This project was concocted in the heady days of the Net boom but never formally launched due to life and its discontents. Nonetheless, it did spwan various Arctic Tern flight path artworks as well as the Stanford Land Art Classes which are slowly creating artistic on-site mappings of the Great Basin ancient watersheds. Otherwise, i am not working on this project now but leave this up as a record of what was once considered and might be considered again. . .

For more info, email jimmason@longnow.org
For other projects by Jim Mason, see www.WhatIAmUpTo.com

Main Workroom: Maps and Art

The Terrestrial Map is an Internet-orchestrated, global Land Art project tracing the physical pathways of various large-scale planetary systems. Using artworks based on the proverbial "white signpost" with arrowboards, we're attempting to imagine and mark some of the more compelling macro-pathways of the planet- features like boundaries of tectonic plates, historic routes of human migration, family histories, and the emerging physical geography of the Internet.

We invite you to join us. Participants from around the world are collaborating thorugh this site to create and install a wide variety of land-based pathway artworks. You might consider adding to the artwork with a simple signpost, ephemeral land design, audio/visual stream, networked kinetic sculpture, or something else you feel appropriate for your local "pathway site".

Our goal is"1:1 scale map" of the planet. This global collection of pathway markers, tracing relationships across towns and states, countries and continents, we are calling "The 1:1 map". It is a "map" built physically on-the-ground, as well as drawn in the imagination- a map which invites us over the horizon to visualize the massvie spatial and temporal dimensions of the Earth systems and networks.

The "Map is the Territory". . . The "Territory is the Map"

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