Software art refers to works of art where the creation of software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks. Although video games are also software art, the term is often used to single out works that are non-interactive or don't fit the usual definition of a game. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.
Software art as an artistic discipline has attained growing attention since the late 1990s. It is closely related to Internet art since it often relies on the Internet, most notably the World Wide Web, for dissemination and critical discussion of the works. Internet art (often called net art) is Art or cultural production which uses the Internet as its primary medium or inspiration (but not necessarily as its The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. 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 FILE Electronic Language International Festival (São Paulo), Transmediale (Berlin), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz) and readme (Moskow, Helsinki, Aarhus, Dortmund) have devoted considerable attention to the medium and through this have helped to bring software art to a wider audience of theorists and academics. FILE - Electronic Language International Festival is a New media art festival held yearly in São Paulo Brazil since 2000 and with iterations being held eventually in other transmediale is an annual festival for art and digital culture held in Berlin, Germany. The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and Interactive art, Computer animation, digital culture A readme (or read me) file contains information about other files in a directory or archive and is very commonly distributed with computer
Selection of artists and works
- Amy Alexander performs with self-authored software art under the pseudonym of ubergeek. Her art makes reference to the nature of the software hacker and the potential creative role they play in society.
- Thomas Briggs is an artist who uses methodologies of animation and scientific visualization to generate drawings of great complexity.
- 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. Carnivore is a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that is analogous to wiretapping except in this case E-mail and other Communications The artistic version is an application with server-client architecture; several artists have created client applications for this project.
- Pall Thayer is an Icelandic artist that creates software art that uses elements of online-culture to create audio-visual art. Among his best known work is PANSE and On Everything.
- Scott Draves is best known for creating the Electric Sheep in 1999, the Bomb visual-musical instrument in 1995, and the Fractal flame algorithm in 1992. Scott Draves is the inventor of Fractal Flames and the leader of the Distributed computing project Electric Sheep. Electric Sheep is a Distributed computing project for animating and evolving Fractal flames which are in turn distributed to the networked computers which display Fractal flames are a member of the Iterated function system class of Fractals created by Scott Draves in 1992
- 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.
- Jaromil, author of various GNU/Linux applications, has published famous art pieces as this shell forkbomb featured across art venues and essays worldwide. Denis Jaromil Rojo (also known as the Rasta Coder) is a Free software programmer a media artist and activist Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks He is also developing FreeJ, a vision mixer he is employing in theater and live performances. FREEJ (In Arabic: فريج meaning "neighbourhood" is a 3D animated series Produced in the United Arab Emirates; produced by Mohammed Saeed Harib who
- Miltos Manetas and Bob Holmes are artists who create websites that are signed, exhibited and sold in galleries and Museums as autonomous artworks. Bob Holmes (born in Greenock, Scotland) is a British artist Webby Awards winning web designer and digital art director
- Netochka Nezvanova is the author of nebula. Netochka Nezvanova is the Pseudonym used by the author(s of Nato m81, an experimental web browser awarded at Transmediale 2001 in the category "artistic software". transmediale is an annual festival for art and digital culture held in Berlin, Germany. She is also the creator of the highly influential nato.0+55+3d software suite for live video manipulation. nato0+55+3d (previously nato0+55) is a set of modular video processing and QuickTime control objects authored by the Netochka Nezvanova collective
- 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.
- 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. Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art technology and society that was part of the International
- Alexei Shulgin is well known for this 386DX performance group, but is also credited with early software art-inspired creations. Alexei Shulgin (Алексей Шульгин born 1963 in Moscow) is a Russian born contemporary artist musician and online curator
- Adrian Ward has won several awards for his Signwave Auto-Illustrator, a generative art graphic design application, which parodies Adobe Photoshop. Adrian Ward (born in 1976 in Bishop Auckland, England) is a software artist and Musician. Signwave is a small independent company based in London, England specialising in Software production but is heavily influenced by the Arts. Generative art refers to Art that has been generated composed or constructed in an Algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by Computer
- Z, (aka Tristan Zand), creator of opesource applications and online content management systems (e. Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge g. bolinos , sqeleton )since the mid nineties, has been active in the creation of software/human hybrid improvisational works in music, photography, video and writing as the BassOMatic and linked BootyMachine group experiments.
- 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.
External links
- [1]is an online exhibition of electronic art
- File Festivalis an exhibition of electronic art
- 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. The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney" harbors one of the most important collections of 20th century American art
- Transmediale have a software art category in their yearly festival.
- code an online exhibit of open-source code art.
- Thomas Dreher Conceptual Art and Software Art: Notations, Algorithms and Codes (November 2005).
Further reading
- DATA browser 02 (2005). Engineering Culture: On 'The Author as (Digital) Producer'. Autonomedia / Arts Council England. ISBN 1-57027-170-4
- Barreto, Ricardo and Perissinotto, Paula “the_culture_of_immanence”, in Internet Art. Ricardo Barreto e Paula Perissinotto (orgs. ). São Paulo, IMESP, 2002. ISBN: 85-7060-038-0.
- Luining, Peter (2004). Read_Me 2004. An extensive review of the Run_Me software art conference/ festival held in Aarhus, Denmark 2004.
- Bosma, Josephine (2004). Constructing Media Spaces
- Broeckmann, Andreas (2004). Runtime Art: Software, Art, Aesthetics
- Oliver Grau: Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, MIT-Press, Cambridge 2003.
- Magnusson, Thor (2002). Processor Art: Currents in the Process Oriented Works of Generative and Software Art
- Paul, Christiane (2003). Digital Art (World of Art series). London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20367-9.
- Shanken, Edward A. (1998). "The House that Jack Built - Jack Burnham's Concept of 'Software' as a Metaphor for Art" Leonardo Electronic Almanac 6:10.
- Shanken, Edward A. (2002). "Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art" Leonardo 35:4: 433-38.
- - Software Art Andreas Broegger Copenhagen
- Mitchell Whitelaw. Metacreation: art and artificial life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004
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