Glenn

//Early Work//
Perhaps my art has always been about networks. The first painting I ever made was - although I would never have articulated it this way at the time - about the network of human exchange at the San Diego - Tijuana border...

//Fractal Networks//
Later paintings explored fractal networks. Again, my perception at the time was that the work engaged the dance between abstraction and representation with a big dose of phenomenology and perception. But that work was always a lot about fractals and in essence, manipulating the fractal network.

//Cognitive Networks//
Now in the Web2.0 age it's hard not to think about networks. In his book //Linked,// Albert-Laszlo Barabasi describes the remarkable topographic similarities among the networks of the human cell, the western states power grid, actors in Hollywood, and the boards of directors of Fortune 500 companies. In his book //The Wealth of Networks,// Yochai Benkler discusses the many extraordinary networks surrounding giant networks like Wikipedia and small(er) networks like the one surrounding 2 college students and their act of "electronic civil disobedience" against the giant voting machine corporation. In her work danah boyd analyzes the dynamics around social network sites like MySpace vs Facebook.

Through this sudden epiphany of network ideas I've been making 2D photo prints of my students' museum networks, their online avatars, network maps of my own and other websites and most recently, Facebook "friend networks." Last month my 495 students and I started our 1st 3D network graphic, turning my office into a 3D display of student relationships.

//Art History 495//

 * Tiffany Evans


 * Lee Le


 * Kim Chu


 * Danni Kong

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