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By amy, Section whatever...
Posted on Wed May 7th, 2003 at 11:50:02 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
I guess I'm a software art evangelist. Lately, it seems like I spend more time yacking about software art than making it. But over on another group project I'm involved with, runme.org, our collective yackings about projects for this year's read_me festival are daily starting to trickle online.

 

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This year's group of "experts" have written features on 30 or 40 of our favorite projects submitted to runme/read_me since runme's opening at the beginning of 2003. Software art comes from both art and software "geneaology" - but is different than either of its "parents." Anyway, since most of our friends are still scratching their heads asking what the F software art is, we software art lovers like to write about it every chance we get. :-) What do others think? After a hard day of using often-oppressive software, does the idea of software acting as art sound like fun or do you want to throw up?

Here you can find a listing of a bunch of texts on various aspects of software art.

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[new] artware (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#12)
by joncates (joncates@criticalartware.net) on Mon Oct 6th, 2003 at 07:50:10 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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my pref on the issue of terminologies for software-as-art [and/or] code-based approaches is "artware" but i am .esp interested in the discussions of [naming/genre-formation] as loacted in threads such as these recent rhizome posts:

"software art vs. programmed art"
"artware vs. software art vs. programmed art"
"ars lecture on software / art /"
"Art Software"
"ars lecture on software / art / culture"

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[new] collaboration (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#8)
by Aileen on Thu May 15th, 2003 at 12:20:55 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Amy, you have said before that the way collaboration between programmers and artists usually works is that the artist says, here is my idea, now implement it. Does software art work the other way around?
That`s not really a serious question, but the idea appeals to me.



[new] fun! (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#1)
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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