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Exhibition »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns. Network Thinking«

A visualization of a network is shown. The edges of the network are colored in different colors.
© BarabásiLab (Albert-László Barabási, Alexander Gates, Alice Grishchenko, Qing Ke, Mauro Martino, Onur Varol)

More data are produced now every day than before in an entire decade. To cope with this volume of data a new science is needed: the visualization of identifying nodes and networks, of parameters and patterns. The exhibition »BarabásiLab: Hidden Patterns« invites visitors to discover the invisible data structures that have now been visualized by the physicist and network scientist Albert-László Barabási and his research laboratory.

With the exhibition »BarabásiLab: Hidden Patterns« the ZKM | Karlsruhe presents the work of Hungarian physicist and network scientist Albert-László Barabási (*1967, Cârța, Romania) and his research laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. Over the past 25 years BarabásiLab has developed a vocabulary for complexity based largely on forms of expression taken from art.

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  • A wall full of sketches by Albert-László Barabási
    Albert-László Barabási, »Conception«, 2019–2020
    © Albert-László Barabási, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • In the foreground is a medium-sized sculpture showing a network with many nodes. To the left and right of the sculpture are networks in the form of a mouse brain.
    »The Flavor Network as a 3D Data Sculpture«, 2018 and »The Mouse Connectome«, 2019
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • Exhibition view with the »Art Board Network« as a 3D model and as a picture on the wall.
    BarabásiLab (Albert-László Barabási, Csaba Both, Alexander Gates, Alice Grishchenko, Louis Shekhtman), »The Art Board Network«, 2019
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • In the foreground is a medium-sized sculpture showing a network with many nodes. Behind her are projections of networks in the form of a mouse brain.
    Exhibition insight »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns. Network Thinking«, 2021–2022
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • Exhibition view with »Network Canon« as a 3D model and image on the wall.
    Exhibition insight »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns. Network Thinking«, 2021–2022
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloß
  • Two large canvases. The left one shows a network that spreads from the inside to the outside. The right one shows a network like small piles lying next to each other.
    BarabásiLab (Albert-László Barabási, Alexander Gates, Alice Grishchenko, Qing Ke, Mauro Martino, Onur Varol), »150 Years of Nature«, 2019
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • In the foreground is a canvas that shows a network in an oval elongated shape similar to a brush.
    BarabásiLab (Albert-László Barabási, Alexander Gates, Alice Grishchenko, Qing Ke, Onur Varol), »150 Years of Nature«, 2019
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • A network with many connections and points represents the secret connections of different tastes, e.g. the connection of coffee and peanut butter.
    BarabásiLab (Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sebastian Ahnert, James Bagrow, Albert-László Barabási), »The Flavor Network«, 2011
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • The network of the Cosmic Web, i.e. the universe as an invisible network of galaxies, is projected on the wall.
    BarabásiLab (Kim Albrecht, Albert-László Barabási, Bruno C. Coutinho), »The Cosmic Web«, 2016
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • Three smaller canvases hang next to each other. They each show fine lines of a net. In Der Mitteist stands out in each case a thicker, colored, geometric-looking line shape.
    BarabásiLab (César A. Hidalgo, Albert-László Barabási), »Mobility«, 2007
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • An exhibition space. In the foreground are 10 small glass boxes showing fine networks. In the background hang 4 screens that also show networks. On the right hang two large screens, on the left is an explanatory text on the wall.
    BarabásiLab (Albert-László Barabási, Csaba Both, Alice Grishchenko, Deisy Gysi), »Drugging COVID«, 2020–2021
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • A close-up of a small glass box engraved with a network.
    BarabásiLab (Albert-László Barabási, Csaba Both, Alice Grishchenko, Deisy Gysi), »Drugging COVID«, 2020–2021
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • A 3D print of a sphere consisting of a tightly branched network.
    BarabásiLab (Albert-László Barabási, Csaba Both, Alexander Gates, Alice Grishchenko, Louis Shekhtman), »The Art Board Network 3D«, 2019
    © BarabásiLab, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • Two men stand in the exhibition room in front of a projection that shows the cosmos as a network. The man on the left is the scientist Albert-Lázsló Barabási. The right man is Peter Weibel. Both are smiling, their arms are behind their backs.
    Albert-Lázsló Barabási and Peter Weibel inside the exhibition »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns. Network Thinking«, 2021–2022
    © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • Two men stand in the exhibition room in front of a projection that shows the cosmos as a network. They are covered by the projection. The left man is the scientist Albert-Lázsló Barabási. The right man is Peter Weibel. Both are smiling.
    Albert-Lázsló Barabási and Peter Weibel inside the exhibition »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns. Network Thinking«, 2021–2022
    © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss
  • Four people stand in front of a projection of a network in the exhibition space. From left: Albert-László Barabási, Clara Runge, Teresa Retzer and Peter Weibel.
    Albert-Lázsló Barabási, Clara Runge, Teresa Retzer, and Peter Weibel inside the exhibition »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns. Network Thinking«, 2021–2022
    © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloss

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