Bare Maps

Nul Punt Wolk is the initial project by which berte & harmey have started their collaboration.

Nul Punt Wolk – which means “zero point cloud” in Dutch – refers to the aerial LiDAR
point cloud data, which the artists have used to generate their first collaborative
series of works called Bare Maps.

The Bare Maps were created using aerial LiDAR data. LiDAR is a sensing technology that uses pulses of laser light to measure distances to Earth which are then processed into point cloud data.
The physical printed maps which berte & harmey have created with this data show the earth
stripped back to its underlying terrain. Bare of buildings and vegetation, the landscape
retains trace outlines of buildings as well as routes, ‘desire lines’, patterns of land use
and areas of enclosure. The Bare Maps also include locations which are contested and
the landscape sometimes reveals traces of friction, points of forced enclosure,
containment, exclusion and logistics.