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Software Art and Data Visualization



  • Software | Art


    • Software art as
    :: art based on code as formal instructions
    Generative art, code poetry etc.
    :: art offering a 'cultural reflection' on software
    Manipulation of existing software (cracks and patches or plug-ins)
    Political and activist software
    'Alternative' softwares: I/O/D's WebStalker / Netomat
    runme software art repository











  • To what extent is the identity of digital art defined by its nature as art based on code?


    • :: Ward, McLean, Cox, "The Aesthetics of Generative Code":
    Written code as "a computer-readable notation of logic" -- "a notation of an internal structure that the computer is executing, expressing ideas, logic and decisions"
    :: Art-historical precedents based on the execution of formal instructions
    Fluxus, Dada
    Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Sol LeWitt
    Dematerialization of the Art Object: LeWitt, "Sentences on Conceptual Art"
















  • What are the aesthetics of software art and how can they be assessed by traditional art-immanent criteria (or should they be at all)?


    • :: Florian Cramer, "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art"
    Two opposite approaches to software art:
    1. "software art as first of all a cultural, politically coded construct"
    2. "the formal poetics and aesthetics of software code and individual subjectivity expressed in algorithms"
    :: Aesthetics of Perception vs. Poetics of Construction
    The 'languages' of software art:
    *programming language
    *code as artistic expression
    *aesthetic 'language' of the code's actions

    'Behaviors' of the back end vs. aesthetics of the display:
    Craig Reynolds, boids / Antoine Schmitt, Threesome
    CODeDOC
    Casey Reas (with Jared Tarbell, Robert Hodgin, and William Ngan), Software {Structures}


    :: Transformations of representation


    :: Software Literacy



    Database Aesthetics -- The Database as Cultural Form



  • Exhibition:

    Database Imaginary



  • The network as database:

    Maciej Wisniewski, Netomat
    Lisa Jevbratt, 1:1



  • Visualizing Data Sets:

    Ben Fry, Valence / simplified Java version
    Bradford Paley, TextArc

    Golan Levin (with Martin Wattenberg, Jonathan Feinberg, Shelly Wynecoop, David Elashoff, and David Becker)
    The Secret Life of Numbers

    Real-Time Financial Databases:
    Smart Money's Map of the Market by Martin Wattenberg
    Nancy Patterson, Stock Market Skirt
    Lynn Hershman, Synthia
    John Klima, ecosystm



  • Database as "Cultural Narrative":

    George Legrady, Slippery Traces / Pockets Full of Memories
    Jennifer & Kevin MCoy, Every Shot, Every Episode / How I learned



  • Database Cinema:

    Jennifer & Kevin MCoy, 201, A Space Algorithm



  • Visualizing Communication:

    Warren Sack, Agonistics - A Language Game / artport portal



  • "Locative" Database | Mapping of Physical Space:

    Scott Paterson, Marina Zurkov, Julian Bleecker PDPal
    Carbon Defense League, MapHub(tm)
    Q.S. Serafijn, D-tower
    C5, The Landscape Initiative



  • Database, Social Control, Power Relationships:

    Natalie Jeremijenko, HOW STUFF IS MADE /
    Your Average Criminal / The Category Beautiful / Culpability Calculations / Despondency Index