Critical Atlas of the Internet
Critical Atlas of the Internet
2015
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.