IT
Project

Maps / Bounderies

Photography, Digital art & 3D
Art & Research

Map collages from NASA satellite imagery created for the Maps exhibition.

Antarctica reimagined: turquoise satellite-image strips arranged in a spiral on a midnight-blue background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida

In the project Boundaries the impossibility of tracing a definite map of the world and of reaching a univocal understanding of reality is carried to extremes and visualised through the multiple strips that make up each map.

The strips are snapshots taken by different NASA satellites from 1972 to the present according to set orbits. It is not always possible to have two contiguous sections shot in the same day. So the maps are composed of series of images that were shot at a distance of a few days, several months, or even more than a year. Their meaning thus transcends the merely physical representation of a territory.

Credits

  • Photography: Filippo Piantanida
Client Progetto personale
Antarctica reimagined: turquoise satellite-image strips arranged in a spiral on a midnight-blue background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
Cuba and the Caribbean as a collage of purple and green satellite tiles on a dark background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
Cuba and the Greater Antilles in green and dark-blue satellite tiles on a night-dark background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
Europe as a collage of green, blue and white satellite strips on a midnight-blue background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
Europe in false-colour acid green and purple, made of satellite tiles on a dark background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
Europe and the Mediterranean in green and dark-purple satellite tiles on a night-dark background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
South-east Asian archipelago in bright-green and charcoal satellite tiles on a midnight-blue background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
Indochina and Indonesia as a natural-colour satellite collage with cloud strips on a dark background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
The Mediterranean basin in natural colour, with green coasts and sandy deserts, in satellite tiles — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
The Mediterranean in turquoise and sand satellite tiles veiled by clouds on a midnight-blue background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
The Mediterranean in false-colour red and green, made of satellite tiles on a dark background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
The shape of Africa in vertical satellite strips with turquoise highlights on a midnight-blue background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
Africa in natural colour, with the sandy Sahara and green forests, in satellite strips on a dark background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
The Japanese archipelago laid out vertically in green, cloudy satellite tiles on a midnight-blue background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida
The Indian subcontinent in green and turquoise satellite tiles on a midnight-blue background — Maps/Boundaries work, Filippo Piantanida