Preamble: Between 2007 and 2009 I worked for the Triangle Network from the Gasworks office in London as an administrator, before leaving to pursue my Masters at Goldsmiths in Art Writing. Having worked for Triangle and noticed that art writing and criticism was increasingly important to Triangle’s partners, I decided to write [...]

Cross-pollination is normal – if not essential – for networks, especially in the culture sector where the broader (more formal) networks learn from the horizontal structure of (less formal) artist collectives and community art projects that artists create and enjoin intuitively.  While this is often an organic process, I have seen different experiments intended to instigate cross-pollination [...]

  Having co-founded a magazine on ‘culture and politics after the net’ nearly 17 years ago now, I was surprised to find myself feeling like something of a newcomer to the world of ‘cultural networks’, as described here. I’d initially wanted to request that the organisers offer some kind of clarification of the term Networks, [...]

Informal street market in Istanbul photo by Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer When discussing the current shift to networked operations with cultural organisations, ever so often there comes a point where our dialogue partners express the wish to ‘secure’ their networks, to learn about how to make network affiliations more sustainable. On the one hand, [...]

In a world where we have seen an unprecedented level of networks – social, professional online, the infinite movement of information and dialogue in the digital realm – the notion of physical presence is being seen as oh-so-last century: from a recent debate in the New York Times that You Tube has killed off Performance [...]