{"id":8463,"date":"2023-05-01T19:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/?p=8463"},"modified":"2023-05-11T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T08:00:06","slug":"pushing-past-the-envelope-visualizing-the-mail-art-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2023\/pushing-past-the-envelope-visualizing-the-mail-art-network","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Past the Envelope: Visualizing the Mail-Art Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participatory, democratic, and unique,\u00a0 Mail Art is exchanged via the postal service, and facilitates creative connections among artists across the world. This art form arose as a way to work\u00a0outside of \u201cofficial\u201d art distribution systems and over the decades amassed a loyal and productive network of participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In order to discover connections between the artists who sent and received this art form, I analyzed digitized collections of Mail Art from three digital collections in. Using web-scraped metadata, I compiled statistics on the most prolific participants, and created a network visualization of senders and recipients.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nicole-rose.github.io\/mail-art-vis\/#\/\">Interactive Network Visualization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nicole-rose\/mail-art\/blob\/main\/documentation\/Mail-Art_Writeup.pdf\">Project Writeup\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nicole-rose\/mail-art\">GitHub Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1dOYAQxZ6a8pv9FvTiPl4SGFtjld12A4v3m3RjF9txJo\/edit?usp=sharing\">InfoShow23 Presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nicole-rose\/mail-art\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/View_2-1024x868.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9111\" width=\"768\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/View_2-1024x868.png 1024w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/View_2-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/View_2-768x651.png 768w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/View_2-1536x1302.png 1536w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/View_2-2048x1737.png 2048w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/View_2-973x825.png 973w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/View_2-508x431.png 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participatory, democratic, and unique,\u00a0 Mail Art is exchanged via the postal service, and facilitates creative connections among artists across the world. 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