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“Language of Networks”
“Language of Networks” is a symposium and exhibition that will take place in early September at the Ars Electronica Center as part of the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival.
THE WHOLE WORLD’S TALKING ABOUT NETWORKS
One word is making the global rounds: networks. We hear that a good network is the basis of career success. Women form their own networks as a way to break through the glass ceiling. Newspapers report about international terror networks. Electric power networks go down. In general, our world is becoming more global and more tightly interlinked, not least of all by the Internet and other rapidly growing communications networks.
THE SYMPOSIUM: LANGUAGE OF NETWORKS
The confrontation with networks is not new. For more than 70 years, social network analysis, a scholarly discipline in its own right, has been dealing intensively with the analysis and visualization of networks. In the field of art as well, thinking in term of networks is gaining influence.
Reason enough for FAS.research and Ars Electronica to cooperate in bringing this largely undiscovered world of networks to Austria.
In conjunction with this year’s Ars Electronica Festival, international experts from seven countries will spend two days discussing the following topics:
* Networks and Business
* Mapping Research and Innovation
* Networks and Art
* Networks and Psychology
* Networks and Power
* Information Visualization
* PAJEK: Software for the Analysis and Visualization of Networks
THE EXHIBITION: LANGUAGE OF NETWORKS
Accompanying the symposium, an exhibition will present network visualizations in two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. Spectacular visualizations from the realms of business, medicine, society, sport, art and culture translate complex information into manageable knowledge. The highlight will be the largest network ever visualized, a 5 x 3 meter work by Slovene mathematician Vlado Batagelj.
Symposium: September 1 & 2, 2004
Exhibition: September 1–7, 2004
Reservations for Language of Networks
Language of Networks is being produced jointly by FAS.research and Ars Electronica. With scientific support from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne and the Department of Commerce, Trade and Marketing of the Johannes Kepler University, Linz.
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