Invisible Matter — East Art Map

Invisible Matter is a data research project into the global contemporary art field. The project's webpage invisiblematter.xyz (opens in a new tab) will be updated and further developed in order to communicate and further the research.

The goal of Invisible Matter is to locate and describe the entities that produce art events, as well as the printed matter and web sites that participate in the circulation of information and creation of the discourse about the art field. Although the motivation for this research is to observe the economical and political underpinnings of different segments of the art field, the database we are working on is looking to cover as wide a dataset as possible before making any claims toward the meaning of the data produced.

The second step of the research was to analise the overlaping data points between two networks, first — the one resulting from our database, a global map of art events published via e-flux announcements (opens in a new tab), and second — the East Art Map (opens in a new tab), an iconic mapping project about East-European art practices, a project by the slovenian collective IRWIN.

We wanted to see the relationships of the artists and art collectives listed in East Art Map, as they appear from their appearance on e-flux. We developed two visualisations, one a grid of ego networks listing all East Art Map artists according to the number of their appearances on e-flux, and the other a social graph showing relationships, and groups of artists based on their appearance on e-flux.

A small number of the most prominent datapoints (artists) were then invited to contribute the work of their choice to the exhibition.

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