A Framework of Networked Art as a Diagram that is an Image as a Map that is a Plan and that is a Space as a Territory

This chapter discusses the development of a framework for an artistic practice that employs networks, what I have termed as networked art. Instead of focusing on how the framework is employed by demonstrating and discussing the practice that is created through its use, which is discussed at length in my doctoral thesis, I focus on the diagrammatic development of the framework. How the framework evolved over a series of diagrams from a static image to an interactive model, from a representative to a planning form and, most importantly, from a two-dimensional to three-dimensional space. The development of the diagram, itself a manner of employing a methodology of Practice as Research (PaR), specifically practice-led research, has been instrumental to how I understand networked art is conceived, functions and exists in relation to contemporary art practice.