Rob,
Thanks for your input - I will have to reflect more on the links you
provided and might email you back.
A historically contextualised concept of "networks" will
naturally dissolve the distinction between intermedia artists and
multimedia artists so I wouldn't worry about drawing it. I'd just
steer
well clear of Relationalism, which exists precisely to obscure the
structure of its networks.
I wouldn't mind if you expanded on the distinction you see between
intermedia and multimedia, and more about your thoughts on the
relationship between Relationalism and networks.
thanks again,
Heidi
On 15-Dec-10, at 4:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:47:58 +0000
From: Rob Myers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] defining "network/ed" in art
To: [email protected]
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On 12/13/2010 10:48 PM, Heidi May wrote:
Speaking as an artist who
teaching art at universities and college, I feel that "networked
art" is
immediately associated with digital and new media.
Well, the Internet is the defining communication network of the age.
But
there have been and will be other communication networks (the
telegraph,
television, and postal networks have all been used to create art). And
if we use "network" to mean "social network" (in the sociological
rather
than the Facebook sense):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
then art is almost always the product of networks. Projects like "The
Republic Of Letters" and "Unconcealed" use data to show those
networks.
In distinguishing between network and networked art (on whatever
network) a little mis-applied mathematical terminology may help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_%28mathematics%29
We can define network art as art that exists on the edges of the
network
graph, and networked art as art that exists at its vertices:
http://www.mteww.com/nad.html
I think there's lots of research and lots of useful thinking that
can be
done here. A historically contextualised concept of "networks" will
naturally dissolve the distinction between intermedia artists and
multimedia artists so I wouldn't worry about drawing it. I'd just
steer
well clear of Relationalism, which exists precisely to obscure the
structure of its networks.
- Rob.
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