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GUNDEGA STRAUTMANE

VALDIS KREBS

PROJECT "RELATIONAL ORNAMENTS" Networks Shown with Textile GUNDEGASTRAUTMANE.COM ORGNET.COM INFLOWINVENTORY.COM

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Gundega Strautmane, a Latvian textile artist and designer, visualizes social and physical networks in a show called Relational Ornaments. The networks are created using various sized pins to depict nodes and threads connecting them to show relationships. Bringing visualization into the tactile world lends it a weight not able to be achieved on a computer screen. It allows the viewer to pause, spend time with the information, feel it, sense it in a more holistic way. The placement of pins and threads is imprecise because they are placed by hand giving the work a very natural, organic feel rather than the rigidity of the exact calculations of programming.

Textile art based on the network maps of Valdis Krebs.Â

GUNDEGA STRAUTMANE

ARTIST BIO I have a master’s degree in textile art from Latvian Art Academy part of my studies I have spent in Berlin University of Arts (DE). I think, my works can be considered as "the modernization of tradition". In my art projects I use traditional textile, graphics, and photo manipulation techniques in order to reveal my digitally generated concepts. I like working with different codes, sound tracks and data visualisations.

I have had several soloexhibitions and workshops in Latvia and abroad: 2016 Daugavpils Mark Rothko centre exhibition Love infinity, 2015 Art Academy of Latvia Sounds of Rēzekne, 2010 exibition in the frames of 6th conference of the SLSAeu (European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts) Textures, etc. I have had public presentation about my work in electronic-text+textiles in Riga, (e-t+t focuses on investigations of the interrelationships between text and textile practices within technological and electronic environments) Latvia, 3rd Contemporary Moscow Art biennal Russia and etc.

I am a lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia.

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RELATIONALÂ ORNAMENTS Networks Shown with Textile

Visualisations of social networks created with InFlow, an inventory managemet software, in the show called Relational Ornaments was exhibited in 2010 in Latvian contemporary Art Centre Riga Latvia.

The networks were created using various sized pins to depict nodes and threads connecting them to show relationships. Bringing visualization into the tactile world lends it a weight not able to be achieved on a computer screen. It allows the viewer to pause, spend time with the information, feel it, sense it in a more holistic way. The placement of pins and threads is imprecise because they are placed by hand giving the work a very natural, organic feel rather than the rigidity of the exact calculations of programming. During this project, Gundega worked with several blind persons in Riga, Latvia when developing these art pieces. By touching her artwork the blind are able to SEE the visualizations!

During this project, Gundega worked with several blind persons in Riga, Latvia when developing these art pieces. By touching her artwork the blind are able to SEE the visualizations!

VALDIS KREBS Valdis Krebs is an American-Latvian researcher, author, and consultant in the field of social and organizational network analysis. He is the founder and chief scientist of OrgNet, LLC, and the creator of InFlow software, which Wired Magazine called one of the most advanced tools for analyzing and visualizing networks. Popular Science has described Krebs as a "leading expert" and a "pioneer" of network analysis, while Military.com's DefenseTech blog has called him a leading authority in the field.

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The artwork shown above is data from Valdis Krebs Twitter “ego network” — where Valdis is marked with the big red node in the center. Those close to him are very interconnected, those further away, not so much.

Gundega Strautmane, a Latvian textile artist and designer, visualizes social and physical networks in a show called Relational Ornaments. The networks are created using various sized pins to depict nodes and threads connecting them to show relationships. Bringing visualization into the tactile world lends it a weight not able to be achieved on a computer screen. It allows the viewer to pause, spend time with the information, feel it, sense it in a more holistic way.

The placement of pins and threads is imprecise because they are placed by hand giving the work a very natural, organic feel rather than the rigidity of the exact calculations of programming.

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