The network as a model of both cultural creation and organisation retains a growing influence outside the Web, as is evident in Sharla Sava’s review of recent work by THR 2-50’s featured artist, Antonia Hirsch. Hirsch’s inventive reconstructions of cartographic information exemplify the visually abstract nature of modern knowledge, discovering in it a wealth of creative patterns and image relations – many of them as politically informative as they are aesthetically pleasing. [Andrew Klobucar, guest editor, TCR 2-50]
SHARLA SAVA is a writer and university educator based in Vancouver. In 2006 she completed a doctorate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She has lectured, curated exhibitions, and published a variety of articles about art after modernism, discussing the works of Robert Filliou, Ray Johnson, N.E. Thing Co. and Jeff Wall, among others.
READ: Sharla Sava / Gridlock: Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project
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