January 5, 2008: Marking Place, Making Networks
I’ve been thinking about how we live in an increasingly networked society. We are now able to stay connected to each other via the telephone and the internet as we move through our daily lives. Recent changes in mobile telephones and wireless computer networks have changed how we communicate with each other along with our sense of community.
I have been making drawings that use simple polygons to connect points and create form. I see these drawings as graphs of a network of connected points which represent a network. Visually these drawings also refer the polygons of wire frame meshes used to create 3D graphics.
I am interested in the idea of how we create a community and how we arrive at our sense of place and I am wondering if I could use the locations of various mobile devices to create drawings?