Digitally Researching The Network Drawings of Mark Lombardi

The authors do digital research on the work of artist Mark Lombardi (1951-2000) as an experiment in methods for digital art history, manually generating GraphML representations of the networks depicted in his drawings and publishing them at <http://www.lombardinetworks.net>. Services on the data are implemented like textual search on labels of nodes or an index on what persons or institutions appear in which works. The networks are visualized with nodes linked to Wikipedia information about the actors. With calculations on the networks the authors generate synthetic drawings from multiple original works that overlap in actors.