Samson, Audrey and Soon, Winnie (2015) Network affordances: The unpredictable parameters of a Hong Kong SPEED SHOW. The Fibreculture Journal (24). ISSN 1449-1443 (Online)

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Abstract

This paper examines the notion of network affordance within the context of network art. We expand on the notion of affordances, (Gibson, 1977; Gaver, 1996) to include ecological and computational parameters of unpredictability. We illustrate the notion of unpredictability by considering four specific works that were included in a network art exhibition, SPEED SHOW [2.0] Hong Kong (2013). The paper discusses how the artworks are contingent upon the parametric relations (Parisi, 2013) of the network. We introduce network affordance as a dynamic framework that could articulate the experience of tension arising from the (visible) symbolic representation of computational processes and its hidden occurrences.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Affordance; Network affordances; Parametric relations; Net art; Unpredictable parameters
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Related URLs:	Organisation
Last Modified:	26 Apr 2017 13:23
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/16677

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