Critical Atlas of the Internet

Critical Atlas of the Internet

2015
Ausstellungsansicht Critical Atlas of the Internet von Louise Drulhe. Photo Luca Girardini, CC NC-SA 4.0
Ausstellungsansicht Critical Atlas of the Internet von Louise Drulhe. Photo Luca Girardini, CC NC-SA 4.0

How big is the internet? This is the question prompting Louise Drulhe’s fifteen visual hypotheses for spatializing the internet’s properties according to its technical, political, and economic structure. The resulting atlas is a stunningly comprehensive unfolding of network space’s complex shape, throwing the web’s infrastructures, virtual and physical geographies, and territories into sharp relief. It discusses the relations between  informational nodes, users, nations, and corporations, as well as the underlying principles of network design. This atlas is also a modular visual essay, a dynamic computer code that is adaptable to multiplet outputs, including screens, paper, and exhibition spaces.

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