Software art

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Software art refers to works of art where software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks.

Software art as an artistic discipline has attained growing attention since the late 1990s. It is closely related to Internet art since it heavily relies on the Internet, most notably the World Wide Web, for dissemination and critical discussion of the works. Browser art is an important subset of software art.

Since 2000, software art has become a genre worthy of critical speculation and merit. Art festivals such as Transmediale (Berlin), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz) and readme (Helsinki) have devoted considerable attention to the medium and through this have helped to bring software art to a wider audience of theorists and academics. However, there is some concern over whether software art as a specific genre is merely a passing trend.

[edit] Selection of artists and works

  • Thomas Briggs is an artist who uses methodolgies of animation and scientific visualization to generate drawings of great complexity.
  • Nio is an interactive audio project for the Web by Jim Andrews. The source code is downloadable and there are essays on both the programming techniques and the poetics of interactive audio for the Web. Nio is a little sequencer.
  • The London-based artist group I/O/D created the Web Stalker in 1998 - an alternative, simple browser which creates maps of websites instead of displaying separate pages.
  • Carnivore, by the Radical Software Group, is an artistic parody of the wire tapping application of the same name (Carnivore (FBI)), created by the FBI. The artistic version is an application with server-client architecture; several artists have created client applications for this project.
  • Alexei Shulgin is well known for this 386DX performance group, but is also credited with early software art-inspired creations.
  • Adrian Ward has won several awards for his Signwave Auto-Illustrator, an generative art graphic design application, which parodies Adobe Photoshop.
  • Amy Alexander performs with self-authored software art under the pseudonym of ubergeek. Her act makes reference to the nature of the software hacker and the potential creative role they play in society.
  • C.E.B. Reas writes both generative and interactive software to create kinetic screen-based drawings. Examples include Tissue, MicroImage, and Articulate. He has presented his work at Ars Electronica and other international festivals.
  • ZNC browser is piece of software art by Peter Luining that translates html code (the code in which webpages are coded) into colors and sounds, thus making the process of how a browser functions transparent.
  • Jaromil, author of various GNU/Linux applications, has published famous art pieces as this shell forkbomb featured across art venues and essays worldwide. He is also developing FreeJ, a vision mixer he is employing in theater and live performances.

[edit] External links

  • I Love You art exhibition about viral code
  • p0es1s digital poetry exhibition
  • runme.org is an online repository for software art.
  • CODeDOC is an exhibition of artistic code, commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
  • Transmediale have a software art category in their yearly festival.
  • code an online exhibit of open-source code art.
  • Thomas Dreher Konzeptuelle Kunst und Software Art: Notationen, Algorithmen und Codes (german article, lecture, Stuttgart, November 2005).

[edit] Further reading

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/o/f/Software_art.html"
In other languages