Project: "The Play Generated Map & Document Archive" (PlagMaDa)
Created by Brooklyn artist Timothy Hutchings, the The Play Generated Map & Document Archive" is the reason why the internet was invented. This incredible repository "collects, preserves and interprets documents related to game play – especially tabletop role playing games and computer games". Hutchings' online database collects thousands of pages of players' artifacts of cartographic nature. One could spend a lifetime scrutinizing these images. Astounding. The publishing arm of the operation is called The Hutchingsonian Presents and its first book was released September of 2012, and a full schedule of projects are in the work. Exhibitions of archive material have been held at the Cranbrook School of Art, University of Wisconsin, F.A.C.T. in Liverpool, the Nikolaj Kunsthalle in Copenhagen... Hutchings' fascination for cartography is not recent. Consider, for instance, his 2003 drawing, "Roadmap to Thomas More's Utopia". This incredible project is supported, among others, by BioWare founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuck.
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