{"id":2141,"date":"2013-01-31T05:56:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T10:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2013-01-30T23:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T04:14:59","slug":"the-social-network-that-invented-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the-social-network-that-invented-abstraction.php","title":{"rendered":"The social network that invented abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Museum<\/a>Long before people poked and liked and friended each other on-line, they nudged and prodded and provoked each other in person. And a new exhibit at MoMA maps a particular social network that invented the Abstraction movement in modern art.Building on network of known connections of artists from 1910 to 1925, MoMA’s online interactive social network map<\/a> lets you do some poking and prodding of your own. Did Picasso know Tzara? Did Kandinsky know Steiglitz? And how were all the artists informing each others’ explorations?<\/p>\n

It’s a fascinating reminder that social networks aren’t new to the arts, but rather a core engine driving artists since the arts began. And it’s worth wondering how evolving media for building artist interaction will inform whatever’s next. Fun.<\/p>\n

(thanks to information aesthetics<\/a> for the link)<\/p>\n