The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT and Project Cornelia at the University of Leuven are pleased to announce that they have been rewarded a MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) Global Seed Fund grant for workshops in both Leuven and Cambridge to study networks of cultural influence among artists, followed by a symposium and the deployment of student-created artist network maps.
The studies will use linked open data sets and a version of LayerCake – a web app that maps narratives and collections of objects across geographic space and time – modified to show network relationships between points of cultural exchange in addition to linear narratives and collections of individual objects. An earlier, study-specific version of the map can be found here. Version 1 of the tool has just been released.
(updated 4-11-2019)
