artist talk: from net art to software art
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Ar#st Talk [From net art to so1ware art]
Winnie Soon (HK/DK) | PIT, Aarhus University
@10 Dec 2014 | University of Warsaw (Artes Liberales)
Ar#st-‐researcher_01
hQp://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/ipt-‐syllabus/img/image025.png hQp://www.lambdasolu#ons.net/wp-‐content/uploads/2014/03/RP7BundleTGSDrop.png hQp://global.networldalliance.com/new/images/ar#cle/zzzyy.jpg
Ar#st-‐researcher_02
hQp://www.a1a-‐studios.com/web-‐design/ hQp://www.hellopeople.com.au/wp-‐content/uploads/graphics/graphic4.jpg
Artworks_01
• Thinking about the Internet
How to get the Mao experience through internet…/ 2014 hQp://www.siusoon.com/projects/projects_mediaart/mao.gif
INSPIRATION_01
My Boyfriend Came Back From the War / 1996 (Olia Lialina)
hQp://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/olia-‐lialinas-‐most-‐famous-‐net-‐art-‐piece-‐turns-‐15
INSPIRATION_02
My%Desktop / 2002 (JODI)
hQp://mydesktop.jodi.org/
Img src: hQp://front.nfshost.com/noisenotnoise/?p=44
Net art and So1ware Art
So1ware art as a term appeared around the late 90-‐s and got its start from net art discourse. One of the first wriQen men#oning of the term 'so1ware art' can be found in Introduc)on to net.art (1994-‐1999) by Alexei Shulgin and Natalie Bookchin [Shulgin and Bookchin 1999]"
-‐ Goriunova, 2007, p.74
So1ware art?
So1ware art "describes an ar#s#c ac#vity which in the medium—or rather: the material—of so1ware allows for a cri#cal reflec#on of so1ware (and its cultural impact)." -‐Arns, 2004
Artworks_05
• Thinking about the network process -‐ assemblages
Hello Zombies / 2014 hQp://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=1273
So1ware maQers
So1ware is “the displaying of a presenta#on, which could be manipulated in a number of different ways by the processing so1ware before being displayed back to the user” -‐ Berry, 2011:16
Connected…
"At all levels of the network, so1ware and
code may be connected to each other in quite counter-‐intui#ve ways....rather code is added to other code as a connec#on. ...code lies on a plane of immanent connec#ons and consequently...large number of connec#ons.” -‐ Berry, 2011:62