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Notions of networking
Jane Watt examines NAN’s characteristics and its relationship to the current networking climate.
Although the desire to join a network might be deeply rooted in a basic human need – to share experiences with others and look for support and affirmation – the type of network, and modes in which engagement is encouraged are manifold. The need to network has been around for millennia, but in the last ten years the landscape for methods of networking has changed dramatically with the widespread use of computer networks. Everything and everyone can be ‘networked’ no matter whether you work in the same room, building, or on the other side of the globe. Along with this surge in ‘networkability’ there has been a debate in the last five years amongst social, political, economic and technology theorists and practitioners about what networking means in this day and age. NAN has germinated and developed at the same time as this debate, and, in its initial brainstorming days did, indeed, look at some of these debates. Therefore, it is appropriate to examine the characteristics of NAN as a network and how it sits in this climate of recent network knowledge. The NAN artists’ advisory group was formed in 2003 to explore ideas of what a network of...
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