This page is a list of my key thoughts concerning art and networks (not specifically the internet or world wide web) and their general principles employed within my work. It will be amended as required to provide an all purpose and inclusive definition / a premise for the initiation of research and art works:

• No ‘thing’ exists in isolation.
• Instead certain things, based on shared commonalities, requirements etc. form part of a system in which they become participants with other things.
• Art is a system and not an artifact (see the writings of Roy Ascott) therefore art should not exist in isolation. It is a system of process through to manifestation.
• A system of things can be thought of as a network (an Internet of Things) where each is a participant. Participants (by this I mean anything that is ‘connected’ and not just users) interact in some form with at least one of the other participants.
• Since participants are dependent to some extent on others the existence of one does imply the existence of at least one other, contrary to Hume’s statement that “no object implies the existence of any other” (John Hume).
• As a system / network grows in numbers, participants are allowed to become specialists. Gaps in particular behaviour are bridged through interaction with other participants who have specialised in those behaviours.