Literally, as the Museum of Modern Art creates an exibit of artists “Innovating Abstract” art. And one of the peices part of the exbit was this Network Analysis in collaboration with the folks at MoMA, Paul Ingram, Kravis Professor of Business, and Mitali Banerjee.
- What (or who) are the nodes and what are the edges?
- The -nodes are artists represented in “Inventing Abstraction”, all of whom a significant role in the development of a new modem language for the arts. The edges are the relationships between individuals
- How are the relationships characterized and categorized?
- Relationships are characrterized as acquaintance with one another during these years that could be documented. The names in red are those with the most connections within this group.
- What interactions does the project allow?
- Not that it shows the connections through the individual artists’ attributes, it does name them which include: some examples of their work with descriptions and some audio accompanying its caption (these peices are likely to be hung up in the exhibit), the artists’ birthplace, areas worked in, and their interests.
- How does this impact their effectiveness and/or your engagement?
- A core message to be interpreted from this information is that innovation is not the work of a single person, but rather a result of a diverse nexus of people working together to push boundaries. Which honestly, is a really powerful message that can be applied anywhere, especially in something as expanding as digital humanities.
- Not that it shows the connections through the individual artists’ attributes, it does name them which include: some examples of their work with descriptions and some audio accompanying its caption (these peices are likely to be hung up in the exhibit), the artists’ birthplace, areas worked in, and their interests.
- How was the project created?
- Sadly couldn’t find anything given from the descriptions included and simple view of the elements couldn’t point me in a direction of preexisting tools- which makes me think the site was speicifally made or heavily modified for this display. Which is very cool as it has a parallax effect which is pleasing to move around, the effect is the phaux 3D if you didn’t know.
- Funnily enough, the blog for this specific exhibition is hosted on tumblr. I wouldn’t had read the URL saying .tumblr if it weren’t for the fact the bottom advertised to “discover more blogs like this one”, so the more you know- you don’t need wordpress to start sharing your ideas, even if you’re a funded museum full of academics and historical studies. Huh. At least it does look like the main websites design, never forget the work of designers!
