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Above: A Framework of Networked Art as a Diagram that is an Image as a Map that is a Plan and that is a Space as a Territory. Click for a larger view.

A Framework of Networked Art as a Diagram that is an Image as a Map that is a Plan and that is a Space as a Territory is a chapter published in Creating Digitally – Shifting Boundaries: Arts and Technologies—Contemporary Applications and Concepts by Anthony L. Brooks (ed.). The chapter extends the research that was undertaken in my doctoral thesis by transforming The Framework of Networked Art, a diagrammatic framework for artistic practice that employ networks as spaces between artist, artworks and audience as a means, site and context for artistic initiation, into a three-dimensional drawing that provides an immersive VR experience to improve the spatial aspects of the diagram. The chapter’s abstract is included below.

This chapter discusses the development of a framework for an artistic prac- tice that employs networks, what I have termed as networked art. Instead of focusing on how the framework is employed by demonstrating and discussing the practice that is created through its use, which is discussed at length in my doctoral thesis, I focus on the diagrammatic development of the framework. How the framework evolved over a series of diagrams from a static image to an interactive model, from a representative to a planning form and, most importantly, from a two-dimensional to three-dimensional space. The development of the diagram, itself a manner of employing a methodology of Practice as Research (PaR), specifically practice-led research, has been instrumental to how I understand networked art is conceived, functions and exists in relation to contemporary art practice.

Above: Creating Digitally, edited by Anthony L. Brooks and published by Springer.