Submitter: Kim Albrecht, metaLAB at Harvard/Berkman Center, kim@metalab.harvard.edu
Abstract:
The research project »POST_NETWORKS« conducts a series of aesthetic experiments visualizing the traces of network algorithms. Networks consist of conglomerates of points connected by lines. Two forces allocate their positions. Points repulse each other; they drift away from one another through time. Lines draw points together. A performance without width or thickness of separation and togetherness. Networks segment space, creating borders through their connectedness without occupying the surface. Networks are spaceless entities defined by the power relationship of attraction and separation. Network connections create boundaries without walls. Post Networks reimagines the web away from the division of space toward the composition of surface. What if what matters is not the network, but the spaces in-between? While lines emerge from the movement of points, surfaces emerge from the motion of lines through time. Space becomes occupied by the afterglow of repulsion and attraction. Not the network, but its past movement becomes present. Time collapses in a constant redrawing of the surface the network separated.
Areas of STS Scholarship: Information, Computing and Media Technology, Science communication, Social Movements and STS
Authors/Participants: Kim Albrecht, metaLAB at Harvard/Berkman Center
