Social networks created by new technologies: Perspectives from art and architecture

Pantelidou, O; Yessios, IC

dc.contributor.author	Pantelidou, O	en
dc.contributor.author	Yessios, IC	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:55:28Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:55:28Z
dc.date.issued	2006	en
dc.identifier.issn	18331882	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/27748
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dc.subject	Architecture	en
dc.subject	Art	en
dc.subject	Communication	en
dc.subject	Information	en
dc.subject	Social Network	en
dc.subject	Technology	en
dc.title	Social networks created by new technologies: Perspectives from art and architecture	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.publicationDate	2006	en
heal.abstract	This paper will explore Social Networks that are being created by new technology through art and architecture. It will give specific examples of work by artists and architects, and how the technology imbedded in this work often creates new social networks. It will start by looking at work form the end of the 20th century. Much of this work, which predates the advent of the Internet, has a tendency toward utopian vision, claiming that the ability to bridge large distances between people will bring and age of new understanding. The next generation of work tends to focus more on the negative affects of these new networks. The current generation of work, created by individuals immersed in the technology, often having grown up with it, attempts to better understand the problems and possibilities and attempts to create useful solutions. This paper will also seek to address the discourse generated by the work of architects and artists alike. By adopting new technologies in their work, artists and architects are not creating new social networks, they are creating a critical discourse of existing social networks and of technologies that affect these networks. As such, they participate in the aforementioned feedback loop. Through the use of technology, architects and artist end up playing the dual role of technologist and theorist. Whereas scientists and engineers are grounded in problems that arise in the physical world, artists and architects often react to problems that exist in social domains. The time spent addressing these issues makes them, in part, social theorists. When architects and artists take this theory and apply it to their work while using new technology, they become technologists as well. This activity is one method of bringing a social aspect to the discourse of new technology. © Common Ground.	en
heal.journalName	International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences	en
dc.identifier.volume	1	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	73	en
dc.identifier.epage	78	en