Description
"Competitive races 2006: the view from the netroots" (2006) by Janice Caswell, an artist and educator at Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts. An installation for "Personal Geographies: Contemporary Artists Make Maps" at Hunter College Times Square Galleries, New York. This mixed media wall drawing — made with acrylic, nails, pins, paper, thread, and wire, measuring 162 x 120 inches — maps the landscape of competitive political races as seen from the liberal blogosphere (the "netroots"). Caswell's work frequently uses mapping and diagramming as artistic methods, translating data about political networks, media ecosystems, and power structures into large-scale physical installations that occupy gallery walls.
