2 The Networked Artwork: The Grid as Dynamic Relational Form?
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Leonie Bradbury
Abstract
One cannot discuss the relation between artworks and networks without acknowledging the importance of the grid in modern art as a visual precursor. Rosalind Krauss - known for her astute analysis of modernist art and its transition towards the postmodern - discusses the grid on several occasions throughout her career. This chapter highlights Krauss’ essays, “Grids” and “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”, both from 1979. The first is discussed to illustrate the documentation of the grid as the underlying structure of modernist art, and the latter as a text that documents the shift away from the grid to the expanded field of postmodernist thinking. This reading of Krauss turns on how her emphasis on the grid shapes our thinking of the artwork as network. In other words, perhaps the network is to the art of our time what the expanded field was to Postmodern art and the grid was to Modern art.
Abstract
One cannot discuss the relation between artworks and networks without acknowledging the importance of the grid in modern art as a visual precursor. Rosalind Krauss - known for her astute analysis of modernist art and its transition towards the postmodern - discusses the grid on several occasions throughout her career. This chapter highlights Krauss’ essays, “Grids” and “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”, both from 1979. The first is discussed to illustrate the documentation of the grid as the underlying structure of modernist art, and the latter as a text that documents the shift away from the grid to the expanded field of postmodernist thinking. This reading of Krauss turns on how her emphasis on the grid shapes our thinking of the artwork as network. In other words, perhaps the network is to the art of our time what the expanded field was to Postmodern art and the grid was to Modern art.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Content V
- List of Illustrations VII
- Foreword: On Grids and Networks XI
- Acknowledgements XV
- 1 Introduction ‒ The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary Insights on Gridded Modalities in Conversation with the Arts 1
- 2 The Networked Artwork: The Grid as Dynamic Relational Form? 22
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Part I: Planting and Planning the Grid
- 3 The Grid Specialized: Practical Town Planning, Artistic Features, and Natural Settings in Twentieth-Century Brazilian New Towns 39
- 4 Centrifugal or Processional: Divine and Mundane Power in Ancient Chinese Funeral Grids 54
- 5 Globalizing Senegal’s Grid-Plan Legacies in Light of Islamic Studies, World History and Urban Studies 70
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Part II: Generating Grids of Computational Arts
- 6 Between Technological and Aesthetic Grids: Philosophical Challenges Posed by AI Artists 83
- 7 Sounds in Grid: History and Development of Grid-Based Musical Interfaces and their Rooting in Sound, Interaction and Screen Design 97
- 8 On Grids of Contemporary Art Production: A Convergence of Artistic, Computational, Craft and Performative Making 109
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Part III: Kinetic Grids: Bridging, Digging, Floating
- 9 Searching for the Grid at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: When Art and Science Shared their Fragments 127
- 10 Depth as Grid: An Improvisational Actor’s Perspective 143
- 11 How to Do Things with Grids: Anarchitectures of Navigability 157
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Part IV: Grids of Learning: Linguistic, Virtual, Visual
- 12 The Linguistics Relation in the Virtual Grid: A Digital Dialogue 177
- 13 Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Multidisciplinary and Immersive Experience using Grid Methodology for Students 193
- 14 The Multidisciplinary Learning Grid: A Conceptual Space to Develop Neuropedagogy-based, Arts-integrated Chemistry Activities 204
- 15 Concluding Remarks: Grids of Light, Darkness, and Intermediate Shades 225
- About the Contributors 232
- About the Participant Artists 238
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Content V
- List of Illustrations VII
- Foreword: On Grids and Networks XI
- Acknowledgements XV
- 1 Introduction ‒ The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary Insights on Gridded Modalities in Conversation with the Arts 1
- 2 The Networked Artwork: The Grid as Dynamic Relational Form? 22
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Part I: Planting and Planning the Grid
- 3 The Grid Specialized: Practical Town Planning, Artistic Features, and Natural Settings in Twentieth-Century Brazilian New Towns 39
- 4 Centrifugal or Processional: Divine and Mundane Power in Ancient Chinese Funeral Grids 54
- 5 Globalizing Senegal’s Grid-Plan Legacies in Light of Islamic Studies, World History and Urban Studies 70
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Part II: Generating Grids of Computational Arts
- 6 Between Technological and Aesthetic Grids: Philosophical Challenges Posed by AI Artists 83
- 7 Sounds in Grid: History and Development of Grid-Based Musical Interfaces and their Rooting in Sound, Interaction and Screen Design 97
- 8 On Grids of Contemporary Art Production: A Convergence of Artistic, Computational, Craft and Performative Making 109
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Part III: Kinetic Grids: Bridging, Digging, Floating
- 9 Searching for the Grid at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: When Art and Science Shared their Fragments 127
- 10 Depth as Grid: An Improvisational Actor’s Perspective 143
- 11 How to Do Things with Grids: Anarchitectures of Navigability 157
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Part IV: Grids of Learning: Linguistic, Virtual, Visual
- 12 The Linguistics Relation in the Virtual Grid: A Digital Dialogue 177
- 13 Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Multidisciplinary and Immersive Experience using Grid Methodology for Students 193
- 14 The Multidisciplinary Learning Grid: A Conceptual Space to Develop Neuropedagogy-based, Arts-integrated Chemistry Activities 204
- 15 Concluding Remarks: Grids of Light, Darkness, and Intermediate Shades 225
- About the Contributors 232
- About the Participant Artists 238
