What is a diagram? How do maps, charts, plans, DNA sequencing, weather mapping, computer glitches and Internet cartography blur the boundaries between ‘art’ and ‘information’? This issue of Drain presents artworks, thought experiments, essays and reviews that explore how data…
Category: DIAGRAM
Orders of Magnitude
Adrian Göllner All images by and courtesy the artist. In the spring of 2015, I set myself the goal of casting an explosion in bronze. This would not be a representational endeavour, but the casting of an actual rapidly expanding…
Drawing Directions In an Age of the Ready-made Map
Rebecca Noone In the early 1960s, artist Stanley Brouwn stood on a street corner in Amsterdam and asked people for directions. ‘Could you draw that out for me?’ Now, in the age of Google Maps and the always-locating app, I…
Although I Understand The Hierarchy
Hannah Karsen All images by and courtesy the artist, Untitled, 2016, Archival Inkjet Print. Although I understand the hierarchy is a series of work that explores the borrowed language of painting within found makeup marks. While a signifier for the…
Use(ful/less) Schematics
Maxwell Hyett All images by and courtesy the artist. Boredom Studies, open, 2016, Acetate. ‘[A] signifier that has lost its signified has thereby been transformed into an image.’ – Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism and Consumer Society INTRODUCTION Agreement, objectivity, perfect communication:…