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From organizations to networks: analysis of artists' networks across time and space

This paper is concerned with the organization and communication models embedded into networks and collaborative practices in the field of modern and contemporary visual arts. The interdisciplinary research methodology jointly considers social network data and text data in order to detect and visualize both social and meaning structures in artistic practices. We approach artists' networks and associations as social spaces which share common aesthetic, political and social meanings. For this reason, more formal techniques of structural analysis are combined with qualitative analysis of meaning structures. Relational data for this presentation were collected from an original database (CAN_IS) which comprises multiple original data sets consisting of different social relations among artists and biographic information. The paper will present analysis concerning longitudional aspects of network formation and dissolution as well as composition and structural properties. Further, qualitative analysis will provide contextual factors necessary for understanding of network dynamics. In the final part of the paper, methodological and epistemological aspects of this multilevel research are discussed.

social network analysis; visual arts; network dynamics

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