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Experiences of Software

Software studies : the things that software makes possible

Difference between software studies vs computational practises

What software does technically and socially

Natalie Jeremijienko: Intersection between the computational and scientific and social

Ambient interface: Interfaces that don’t use screen, of receive information from in a background and spatial way, undercurrent but not through a direct relation. Information experienced in the periphepheral

Kick started people thinking about the ambient: the internet of things

Artistists work in context of computerscience can have a big impact.

Software studies: make the point of looking at the relationship between computational systems and art and people

Joshua Portway and Lise Autogena : Black Shoals

Stars flicker and glow : millions of dollars trading

Seduced by the piece and have to think about why: Black Shoals is a process of calculation

Study an algorithm and then develop it into an art work. Gained a lot of interest from the practitioners in the financial markets

Influence of the ambient calculations in our life

API: Core part of interfaces with software

If I Wrote you a love letter: Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard, 2012

Twitter API to find tweets that are questions, sonified and made them audible

Temporal and Spatial impact of people waking up around the world

Twitter: interesting and flawed because of who is on twitter

Used the research to look at what was available throughthe API.

What text circulates

Computation and writing:

The listening post, Mark Hensen: gathers text in person, frenatic, chance and uncertainty

Art work as an object not just a piece of code :

Brought up questions: about how software art ,might be brought into collections and sold on the market

Start conversations about the vast amount of data

One of the first uses of the words software the Jewish Musuem: Jack Burnham the curator

Warm Heat, Cold Logic

Information Processing:

Life in a computerized environment: AI piece, the work constructs buildings making up the environment : Gerbils were very active and would attack the robotic arm

Smart cities and machine learnings in city design

Morphogenesis: Things become entangled and almost inseparable

Software as not just language and not just source code, so the procedures involved in this and how the software is made.

Thinking about the processes as part of a living systems

CODeDOC 2002

Rather than focusing on software as part of a living systems, Paul wanted focus on the source code.

To Open up the black box of software art

Comments in code: lookign at it as script and creative writting

Bryan Chung: powerful in showing the underlying process and structure of the cde and different languages

The materialuty of code

The network as part of the material

Florian Cramer: code has s big material impact

Geo Goo:

Net art

Browser art: activities online and how that organises our lives. The everyday micro-interactions

Messy malfunctions and crashes the machine: the disruptive possibilities for negavite

Using the google map: ubiquitous

We expect it to work

Material agency of computation:

Crashing, incompatability, viruses

Using this in their art

Biennale.py (2001) Biennale virus disrupt the slick interface

Violent work: damage the machine when executed: trying to resist it being an object but more about the process

CBT (2017) COding, Braiding Transmission Tamar Clark-Brown and Isaac Kariuki

Braid up : network of closed but shared information e.g. in

Code and information braided into hair

Able to de-crypt...incryption in braiding techniques, how to create new materialities

Braiding : ancient networking tool

Called it a digital start up on going project

Taeyoon Choi 2014: Poetic computations

Uses making dumplings to explain how computers work:

Pedagogical tool : software art that helps people understand computational design and outputs

Process of de-mystifing these processes

Computer is not a neutral tool

Netart and the market

Cornelia Solfrank: direct sale of her work to buyers and other net artists did this

Tension betwe

Florian Kramer interview with Cornelia

Philips art auction in new york : Uber Morgan software artists Opened up the market

Video artists Matthew Barney ; made the art into objects to make it collectible

Museums are thinking about how to preserve and archive code based works

Hackers and activists

Digital art: Digtial start ups, and agencies

Architectural fascades as well

Seminar:

Reading:

Distance from coder

Use it as an excuse

Companies can distance from impacts

Blindspots of coders

Code has a different view of the user and the impact their product could have

Credibility - talisman

Use of language

Double edged sword: given permission, contracts, social contract to have a lot of influence but able to distance from its effects

Logic as a winner -science and technology win

Philosophical

The culture creates the need for the software and then the technology affects the culture

Dating algorithms

The assumptions that algorithms are based impact

Goal of the text:

Demystify the meaning of algorithm

Danger of disconnecting from the people involved, the purpose and the effects

Trying to bring a precision to the way in which it

Humans behind the algorithm: The aolgirthm is personified, somehting in a distance, a shadow. When we are working with it it is just a tool

Meme level in

Something to hide behind

Calculative ambience:

This can sometimes be used on the peripheries of our awareness

To do

Look up: Big bang data at Somerset house, add to postable

Post Cool things I learnt at art school : Life in a computerized word

Check out the CODeDOC artists

Suggest the Taeyoon Choi : workshop as a dinner party

Job amazon: CV algorithm or google keyword woman: negative score

Look up Adam Curtis Hypernomalisation

Art example: software art from example

Browse through the journals and find a paper for the two, compare the two journals forms

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