Welcome.
Paul Baran, from “On Distributed Communication Networks” (1964)
Megan Driscoll is an historian of modern and contemporary art, specializing in postwar photographic and time-based media and discourses on race in the African diaspora. Since fall 2020 she has served as Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Richmond.
The image at top is Barrett Lyon’s 2003 map produced as part of the Opte Project. For this project, Lyon and collaborators have mapped the “vast constellation of networks” that make up the internet in 2003, 2010, and 2015. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Site last updated June, 2022.