Monday, September 26, 2005
Offline Network Artist
Artist Mark Lombardi interprets major political and financial scandals in vast, linear diagrams of the interconnections between involved figures. In his most controversial work, he illustrated the links between global finance and international terrorism.
Here is what wikipedia has to say:
While for most of his career, Lombardi was an abstract painter, he switched six years before his death to the pencil diagrams of crime and conspiracy networks that he would be come best known for. His art is structurally similar to the sociogram, a diagram drawn from the field of social network analysis; but in Lombardi's diagrams, each node or connection was drawn from news stories from major reputable media organizations. The impact, aesthetically, is unique, with elaborate and delicate spiderwebs illustrating networks of conspiracy.
Lombardi's drawings purport to document financial and political frauds by power brokers. His 1999 drawing, entitled George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, ca 1979-90, shows the proved connections between James Bath, the Bush and bin Laden families, and business deals in Texas and around the world.
After two highly successful solo art shows, Mark Lombardi allegedly died of suicide (hanging himself in his Williamsburg, New York studio) in March, 2000.
Here's an article on "Sociograms": http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Sociogram
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"The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed . . . the deed is everything." --Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Iain” (Idyllic Architecture and Information Networks)
WARNING: We are a group of new media art students interested in the transposition of physical, informational and social architecture. In December 2005, we created a series of profiles on the social networking site MySpace for members of The Glass Chain, a group of German architects who envisioned an ideal society that would be united by a new model of physical and community architecture. Their use of a cryptic language, adoption of pseudonyms, and the exchange of words and pictures among a set of members are aspects that resonate with the structure of Internet communities like MySpace. The Glass Chain “friends” interacted in the MySpace network for a number of weeks, and may be continuing to do so at this time.
The Glass Chain “impersonators” are only one possible intervention of this kind. We encourage you to create your own fake profiles of intellectual interest, infiltrate the social spaces of the Internet, and help re-imagine its architecture. The Glass Chain is a communal project; you may participate, in addition, by adopting their identities:
gmail accounts for the architects:
bruno.taut@gmail.com
max.taut@gmail.com
walter.a.gropius@gmail.com
hermann.finsterlin@gmail.com
adolf.behne@gmail.com
wenzel.hablik@gmail.com
carl.krayl@gmail.com
paul.goesch@gmail.com
hans.luckhardt@gmail.com
wassili.luckhardt@gmail.com
glassfan69@gmail.com (glass groupie)
The password for all MySpace profiles is "myspace1"
The password for all Gmail accounts is "myspace"
The login name and password for this blog is "glasschain" and "myspace1" respectively.
