Exhibition — A Network of Networks

Browse the works and ideas below and consider how you will imagine the network. This is a network of networks and systems. Some are windows that simply open to another collection of windows. Some are automated aesthetic systems—some of which are deliberately looking for the errors and glitches of the system itself.

cyberpowwow.net
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Cyber PowWow

Skawennati, Ryan Rice and Eric Robertson, 1997

“First launched in 1997 by the Nation to Nation collective—Skawennati, Ryan Rice, and Eric Robertson—CyberPowWow was one of the first major online art exhibitions. Described as an Aboriginally determined territory in cyberspace, it presented works by Indigenous artists in a multi-user, graphical chat environment.”

cyberpowwow.netrhizome.org

The New Aesthetic

James Bridle, 2011–ongoing

“Since May 2011 I have been collecting material which points towards new ways of seeing the world. The New Aesthetic is not a movement, it is not a thing which can be done. It is a series of artefacts of the heterogeneous network.”

new-aesthetic.tumblr.com

La plissure du texte

Roy Ascott, 1983

“Roy Ascott’s telematic artwork explored the potential of computer networking for the interactive, remote, collaborative creation of a work of art — a ‘planetary fairytale’ authored across eleven locations worldwide.”

artelectronicmedia.com
mimionuoha.com
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The Library of Missing Datasets

Mimi Onuoha, 2016–ongoing

“A series of physical repositories that examine what is systematically excluded in our data-saturated society — absences that reveal cultural values and power structures more clearly than what we choose to collect.”

mimionuoha.com
Sol LeWitt - Wall Drawing 91 instructions diagram

Wall Drawing 91

Sol LeWitt, 1971

“A six-inch grid covering the wall. Within each square, not straight lines from side to side, using red, yellow and blue pencils. Each square contains at least one line of each color.”

instruction diagram (image)artgallery.yale.edu

Noisefields

Woody and Steina Vasulka, 1974

An early electronic video work exploring video signal itself as material—feedback, raster, and the noise floor pushed forward as image.

vimeo.com/66341811
cyberfeminismindex.com
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Cyberfeminism Index

Mindy Seu, 2022–ongoing

“Cyberfeminism is an imperfect umbrella term. This includes branches like Cyberfeminism 2.0, black cyberfeminism, xenofeminism, post-cyber feminism, glitch feminism, Afrofuturism, and hackfeministas.”

cyberfeminismindex.com/images
Andy Deck - Glyphiti, March 2015

Glyphiti

Andy Deck, 2001–ongoing

“Glyphiti is an image composed of many smaller glyphs that can be edited easily. As author, I have established certain characteristics. But the state of every pixel can be changed by the visiting artist.”

Glyphiti, March 2015 (image)artcontext.org/glyphiti

City Everywhere

Liam Young, 2018

Explore the interconnected pervasive city that spans across the globe.

youtu.be (Liam Young)
Ian Cheng - BOB's Umwelt

BOB (Bag of Beliefs)

Ian Cheng, 2020

BOB (Bag of Beliefs) is the first in a new series of artificial lifeforms, who takes the form of a chimeric branching serpent.

BOB’s Umwelt (image)iancheng.com/BOB

Datamatics

Ryoji Ikeda, 2006

“Using pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space.”

vimeo.com/62242278ryojiikeda.com

Feral Landscape Typologies

Ellie Irons

A long-running project surveying the spontaneous plant communities that take root in the urban fabric—ecologies of weeds as records of a city’s neglected and contested spaces.

ellieirons.com

Homeostat Drawing

Stephen Willats, 1969

“Since the late 1950s Willats has employed the diagram as a tool to illustrate dynamic flows of information and relationships within social networks, developed through his interest in cybernetics and Black Box theories.”

stephenwillats.com

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