Network
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non-chronology of modern and postmodern concepts and ideas about art and networks
- recent changes in the concepts or understanding of what is a network.
Network visualisation, or network images, understood as the representation of ‘cultural dynamics,’ rely on two foundations: the instrumental use of language (grounded in traditional logic) and different forms of network topologies.
This double foundation was unthinkable in the mechanised world, since such a picture had always to be in order and finite.
The shift from the mechanisation of the world picture to the networkisation indicated by the computational turn implies a renewed intuition of the world (Weltanschaung).
The mechanisation of the world.. Lewis Mumford: Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt, 1934. (Technika a civilizace, Práce, 1947). "The way society uses machines and the manner in which it creates them is deeply influenced by capitalism, however, the machines themselves are not innately capitalist. Machines then, are not the issue in damaging society's social welfare; Humans and capitalist influences create a harmful environment with the use of machines. To Mumford, this machine-based capitalism is damaging to individuality and a good quality of life"
Metaphores of the Weltanschaung.
- rhizome oddenek - the concept was inspired by the works of Gregory Bateson, structures of Ecology of Mind. Mysl a příroda - Nezbytná jednota.
Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, new organisational structure against trees and taxonomies. The rhizome is at the same time a smooth plane which belongs to the nomads, who demand non hierarchical structure, speed and acceleration. creating more hubs and links.. Umwelt, complex systems
- tree - root, stromová struktura, Newton, Darwin, genealogie,
visualisation of networks
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Teorie sítí zkoumá zákonitosti sítí, nejen počítačových, ale např. sociálních, a v podstatě všech komplexních struktur, které lze na síť převést. Matematicky vychází z teorie grafů, založené matematikem Leonhardem Eulerem. Základními pojmy grafu je uzel (node) a hrana (link), která propojuje dva uzly.Teorii rozšířili Pál Erdős a Afred Rényi na náhodné grafy a odtud bylo již blízko k aplikaci ve společenských vědách a mapování sociálních sítí (Mark Granovetter - přišel mimo jiné i se známým zjištěním, že od kteréhokoliv obyvatele planety nás dělí jen šest vazeb).
První analýzy webu jako sítě provedl tým pod vedením Albert-László Barabásiho. V distribuci vazeb zjistil překvapivé souvislosti s mocninovými jevy, které do té doby motaly hlavy fyzikům. Do žádné z dosavadních typů sítí se web nehodil a tak byl popsán jako bezškálová síť.
- Networks as aesthetic programs
Artwork versus Network
Nicolas Bourriaud, recent text Altermodern (2009) “but what is a network? A connected chain of distinct elements in time or space. Various materials can serve as a ‘glue’ to hold the component elements together, yet one of them today assumes a particular importance: story telling.
The Altermodern is “a positive experience of disorientation through an art-form exploring all dimensions of the present, tracing lines in all directions of time and space.” Altermodern history is a disorientation of the present. The term disorientation deserves our attention. It is not a fault–the sublimation of the forgetting, as Heidegger says–but the default of the origin of global culture.
Nicolas Bourriaud, Altermodern: Tate Triennial (London: Tate Gallery, 2009).
utopia of networking and telepresence - Roy Ascott: A Glossary list of terms coined by R.A. 1996
roots:
- Fluxus: 40 years of, Ken Friedman, 2002
- Ethernal Network - Robert Fillou and George Brecht, 1968
dystopia of the future of globalized, networked, controlled society
- Das Netz, Lutz Dammbeck
some artistic concepts and approaches towards networks and networking
- Lev Manovich - analysis of database and networking of images.
http://www.stream.cz/video_world/xtbzVuDqSas
Internet a film
David Blair, Waxweb (1993-1999, final version) is the hypermedia version of the theatrically-distributed electronic feature film «WAX or the discovery among the bees» (1991, 85:00). Visitors of the website can play the movie from beginning to end, as an 85 minute theatrical feature, or click the «hypervideo» at any time. The movie has 1200 shots. Every shot is recomposed inside 25 unique pages/spaces.
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/wax/
- Perry Bard, A Man with Camera
