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Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks [Kindle Edition]

Maximilian Schich , Roger Malina , Isabel Meirelles
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Produced in partnership with Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and MIT Press this project documents the work of 45 leading researchers whose work explores the meaning and application of the science of complex networks to art history, archaeology, visual arts, the art market, and other areas cultural importance. These works were presented at the Leonardo Days at the Network Science conferences, the High Throughput Humanities conference, and in the Leonardo journal.

The publication is a project of the ATEPUCU: The ATEC Experimental Publishing and Curating initiative at UT Dallas. A web companion is available at http://www.AHCNcompanion.info.

Contents:

Preface by Roger Malina
Introduction by Isabel Meirelles and Maximilian Schich

I Networks in Culture

Networks of Photos, Landmarks, and People
David Crandall and Noah Snavely

GAP: A NeoGeo Approach to Classical Resources
Leif Isaksen et al.

Complex Networks in Archaeology: Urban Connectivity in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain
Tom Brughmans, Simon Keay, and Graeme Earl

II Networks in Art

Sustaining a Global Community: Art and Religion in the Network of Baroque Hispanic-American Paintings
Juan Luis Suárez, Fernando Sancho, and Javier de la Rosa

Artfacts.Net
Marek Claassen

When the Rich Don't Get Richer: Equalizing Tendencies of Creative Networks
John Bell and Jon Ippolito

The Mnemosyne Atlas and The Meaning of Panel 79 in Aby Warburg’s Oeuvre as a Distributed Object
Sara Angel

Documenting Artistic Networks: Anna Oppermann’s Ensembles Are Complex Networks!
Martin Warnke and Carmen Wedemeyer

Net-Working with Maciunas
Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt

Network Science: A New Method for Investigating the Complexity of Musical Experiences in the Brain
Robin W. Wilkins et al.

Networks of Contemporary Popular Musicians
Juyong Park

III Networks in the Humanities

The Making of Sixty-Nine Days of Close Encounters at the Science Gallery
Wouter Van den Broeck et al.

Social, Sexual and Economic Networks of Prostitution
Petter Holme

06.213: Attacks with Knives and Sharp Instruments: Quantitative Coding and the Witness To Atrocity
Ben Miller

The Social Network of Dante’s Inferno
Amedeo Cappelli et al.

A World Map of Knowledge in the Making: Wikipedia’s Inter-Language Linkage as a Dependency Explorer of Global Knowledge Accumulation
Thomas Petzold et al.

Evolution of Romance Language in Written Communication: Network Analysis of Late Latin and Early Romance Corpora
Alexander Mehler et al.

Need to Categorize: A Comparative Look at the Categories Of Universal Decimal Classification System and Wikipedia
Almila Akdag Salah et al.

The Development of the Journal Environment of Leonardo
Alkim Almila Akdag Salah and Loet Leydesdorff

IV Art about Networks

Tell Them Anything but the Truth: They Will Find Their Own. How We Visualized the Map of the Future with Respect to the Audience of Our Story
Michele Graffieti et al.

Model Ideas: From Stem Cell Simulation to Floating Art Work
Jane Prophet

Culture, Data and Algorithmic Organization
George Legrady

Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0
Anna Dumitriu

Narcotic of the Narrative
Ward Shelley

V Research in Network Visualization

Building Network Visualization Tools to Facilitate Metacognition Incomplex Analysis
Barbara Mirel

Pursuing the Work of Jacques Bertin
Nathalie Henry Riche

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  • Publisher: Leonardo/ISAST and MIT Press (June 15, 2012)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Living e-book April 14, 2012
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This is one of the editors of this ebook providing additional information. This ebook on Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks is linked to a web companion at [...] We will be adding new material for the e-book on the web site, including reader comments and discussion and then re issuing the e-book with added content. Please feel free to add comments about the project or discussions of the content on the web companion AHCNcompanion.info [...] We want this to be a living ebook, with updated revisions and new content over the coming year.

Needless to say I have our ebook a high rating ! This is an emerging topic of research, how methods in the science of complex networks are applicable across the arts and humanities bringing new insights- but also innovative visualisation methods.
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In this collection of articles, one can learn about such eclectic topics as: the history of networking in art; using network methods to study the brain;looking at new ways to bring analysis of large-scale data to the study of traditional humanities subjects including music;the peculiarities of networks of prostitution as a socioeconomic phenomenon - to give potential readers just a flavor of what awaits them in this Leonardo eBook.

I do not have a Kindle so I downloaded their Kindle App so I could read the work on my PC. (There is one for MACS also). Here are the links.

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This is a great companion tool to show that the rapidly emerging field of network science stands to fundamentally change, and seamlessly merge, the previosly isolated fields of science and the arts. Scientists and readers of all backgrounds will find that this compantion tool highlights the... Read more
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