Creative and Critical Use of Complex Networks

Media Artist and Programmer Burak Arikan will give insights into his project Graph Commons.

Graph Commons is a collaborative platform for making, analyzing and publishing network maps. It empowers people and organizations to transform their data into interactive maps and untangle complex relations that impact them and their communities. Graph Commons members have been using the platform for data research, investigative journalism, strategizing, organizational analysis, archival exploration, and art curating.

 

Burak Arikan

Artist

New York, Istanbul

burak-arikan.com/

Burak Arikan is a New York and Istanbul based artist working with complex networks. He takes the obvious social, economical, and political issues as input and runs through an abstract machinery, which generates network maps and algorithmic interfaces, results in performances, and procreates predictions to render inherent power relationships visible and discussable. Arikan’s software, prints, installations, and performances have been featured in numerous exhibitions internationally. Arikan is the founder of Graph Commons, a collaborative platform for network mapping, analysis, and publishing.