Contemporary art and networks: Analysis of the Venus Project using the UCINET software

During the first years of 21st century, political, economic, and institutional crisis in Argentina, linked to fall convertibility plan; led strengthening associative, collaborative, community livelihoods (Hintze, 2003; Palomino, 2005; Pastore, 2010). In dialogue with this situation, from field visual arts, Venus Project arises, a network artists created Buenos Aires, Argentina. Venus, operated 2002 2006, offers virtual analog platform for exchanging services, goods, skills, and/or knowledge between agents interested cultural consumption its management. The project aimed create micro-community an experimental authartic economy own currency (Pauls, 2002; Sainz Solaas, 2007; Krochmalny, 2008; Rubinich, 2009; Jacoby, 2011). Throughout five years, had more than 600 members through demands. present work, reconstruction total experience is proposed identify flow exchanges analyze their effectiveness. Our hypothesis that it failed function as economic device, framed within collective artistic proposal. turn, survey our corpus, we use techniques come ethnography, data will be analyzed later UCINET software.