Thanks for pointing that out, I can see that there’s a button for that below the map on my phone, but it’s not there on my work laptop for some reason. Probably some extension that’s messing with it.
Most connections are vertical or inside the columns, though, cross-column connections do exist in the map, but they are rather rare even in the section about computing and communication (the layout obscures this a fair bit, I think) and becoming rarer as one moves to the right of the map, where it’s mostly entirely separate columns.
I can see how that design would work really well as a physical installation (see the info page for more photos:
Dark mode:
Light mode:
And that also explains why the digital version has no hyperlinks for connections or background information (although it appears the exhibitions contained more information and physical objects) no searchable text, and no colors.
Calculating Empires has won the European Commission’s 2024 Grand Prize for Artistic Exploration in Science, Technology, and the Arts. […] Previous winners include Richard Mosse, Holly Herndon and Matt Dryhurst.
I’m sure the previous winners are also worth checking out, the website linked above has details.
