Digital Opening: BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns

This panel featuring network scientist Albert-László Barabási, data visualization experts, Isabel Meirelles and Alice Grishchenko, and artist and director of the ZKM | Karlsruhe, Peter Weibel, will engage with the topic of network thinking and data visualization in our contemporary world. Through the visualization of networks, invisible amounts of data, upon which all the infrastructures of daily life have long been based, come more clearly into focus.

The innovative and interdisciplinary field of network science facilitates the analysis of various cultural and social phenomena through graphic representations of relationships between people, objects, or ideas. Data visualization explores the obscure and hidden patters in nature, society, language, and culture. Barabási's network approach promises to deliver comprehensive methods that illuminate phenomena with both technical precision and aesthetic sensibility.

The four panelists will explore how network thinking has changed—and continues to change—our views of the world through visualizing systemic connections and communications. Albert-László Barabási is the founder and director of BarabásiLab and has been instrumental in the development of  methodologies of data visualization for over 25 years. Alice Grishchenko is a member of the BarabásiLab and worked on many of the network visualizations featured in the exhibition. Isabel Meirelles has collaborated with Barabási on various projects over the years and continues to teach and write about the impact of network visualization on society, culture, and education.

Video documentary:

ZKM | Videostudio

Camera: Christina Zartmann, Hauke Jörgensen
Live editing & streaming: Peter Müller
Technical setup: Andy Koch
Grafic design, Streaming support: Xenia Leidig