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December.20 (Friday), 2002 - March.28 (Friday), 2003 Entrance Lobby
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Preface |
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The theory of networks and networking is providing us with radical new insights into the underlying processes of nature, economy,
and society. The "Web of Life" is conceived as a multidisciplinary project that conjoins art and science to give form and expression
to this fundamentally important new realm of understanding. Its three components are a book titled "The New Web of Life: the Art of
Networked Living", a large scale distributed interactive artwork, and a web site. Formulated by the writer Michael Gleich and artist
Jeffrey Shaw, the project is sponsored by the Aventis Foundation and is being created and produced at the ZKM Center for Art and Media
in Karlsruhe by a prominent team of artists, designers, architects, scientists, and technicians.The project commences at the ZKM on
March 22, 2002 and continues through till December 2003. The distributed nature of the artwork will allow it to be manifest at numerous
interconnected locations world wide during this period, while the book and Web site extend the scope of this project to an even larger
public.
The book
"The New Web of Life -the Art of Networked Living" gives an insightful explanation to the laws of networks and how persons can navigate
and utilize all types of communicative and social networking. Published first in German and later in English, the book provides an erudite
and useful theoretical framework for the Web of Life project as a whole.
The web site
www.web-of-life.de provides general information about the project, its makers, partners,
and sponsors, as well as URLs to selected sites that are concerned with the subject of network theory and practice. It also presents
an up-to-date schedule of locations of the four traveling installations, with live Web cam feeds from each of them and an active display of
the visual outcomes caused by the scanned input of the participants'
hand lines.
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