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by petertraub on Wed May 7th, 2003 at 12:47:01 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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are you differentiating software art from net.art? i suppose net.art is really just a subset of software art.

as i haven't really written any downloadable software art, how would you say most software art is structured? are there a lot of works where the art is actually in the code itself (a simple example being perl poetry or your perl script prozac.pl). or do you find that most works hide, on some level, the software aspect and focus more on end results/experiences that are not necessarily tied to the idea of software as art?

where do you locate the art in a work like prozac.pl amy? for example, i know what its going to do, so i'll never run it and see the output (and have it crash my machine), but as a perl programmer, i enjoy just looking at the script itself and appreciating the humor in the code. yet, by not running it and having it crash my machine, am i not really experiencing the work?

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