For 12 years already, I've been on/off experimenting (and prototyping) to create a compendium & knowledge graph about computational & generative art, the different movements/genres/mediums (e.g. architecture, design, visual art, audio/music, sculpture, kinetic/motion, film/animation, text etc.), influences, definitions/references, people (artists, curators, writers, thinkers), collectives, organizations (foundations, galleries, museums), exhibitions/festivals, tools & tool makers, common techniques used, art platforms — everything tagged and also supporting to browse by time (centuries & decades, currently starting ~1600) and region...
Attached are some screenshots of my first prototypes from 2011/12 (using #CouchDB, then #neo4j for storage & my own tools for force-directed graph layout) and of the current prototype using #Logseq (https://logseq.com)... The latter is working great for now and feeling, I'm getting somewhere this time, also because I have to make it work (for work!). This is all still just a beginning, hundreds of more people, orgs, projects & references to import and re-check from older versions. The current contents are _very_ biased to my own network/trajectory in/through this space...
Ps. Following up with all the folks & materials I've included already, I'm realizing again and again just how I've been the most naïve and _worst_ person to monetize (mostly not even trying!) my art/contributions... For 20 years I've filed 90% of hundreds of my projects under "experiments", "sketches", "demos", "tutorials" (often also to help illustrate techniques of my open source tools), only to realize (not for the first time) almost everyone else of my old peers has been way less selective and been attaching way more importance to all of their outputs... Maybe one day I will learn, before it's too late...
