May 17, 2012

Social Networks as Art



Textile art by Gundega Strautmane based on the network maps of Valdis Krebs — Relational Ornaments.

Gundega works with vision impaired folks in Riga Latvia — creating art that they can touch & feel, allowing them to see & sense data visualizations.  As opposed to most art objects, this is art you are invited to touch! Feel the pins, the threads.

The network, pictured above, is a TB outbreak.  Ideas and interests, like disease, spread person-to-person and can be contagious. Go spread some Art!

Enjoy!

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