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Also ''artistic software'', ''critical software'', ''experimental software'', ''speculative software''.
 
Also ''artistic software'', ''critical software'', ''experimental software'', ''speculative software''.
  
==Events==
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==Repositories==
* ''[http://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/01/en/conference.htm Transmediale 2001: DIY (do it yourself!)]'' festival conference, Berlin, 4-11 Feb 2001. This year the festival introduced an [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/01/en/software.htm award for "artistic software"], the first award given and solely dedicated to software art.
 
* ''[http://www.hmkv.de/programm/programmpunkte/2002/Ausstellungen/2002_Kontrollfelder.php Kontrollfelder - Programmieren als künstlerische Praxis]'' exhibition, HMKV, Dortmund, 5 Apr-5 May 2002. Curated by [[Andreas Broeckmann]] and [[Matthias Weiß]].
 
* ''[[Readme]]'' festival held in four editions: Moscow, 2002; Helsinki, 2003; Aarhus, 2004; Dortmund, 2005. Conceived by [[Olga Goriunova]] and [[Alexei Shulgin]].
 
* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20160203202826/http://generative.net/generator/ Generator]'' exhibition, Spacex Gallery, May-Jun 2002; later toured the UK. Curated by [[Geoff Cox]]. [http://vimeo.com/40386856 Video].
 
* ''[http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/ CODeDOC]'' online exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, Sep 2002; later as part of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2003. Curated by [[Christiane Paul]].
 
* ''[http://www.digitalcraft.org/?artikel_id=237 I love you - computer_viren_hacker_kultur]'' exhibition, Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt/Main, May-Jun 2002; later as part of Transmediale festival, Berlin, 31 Jan-5 Feb 2003.
 
* ''[[Software Art|Software Art: A curatorial fiction or a new perspective?]]'' conference, Bethanien, Berlin, 4 Feb 2003.
 
* ''[http://90.146.8.18/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_overview.asp?iPresentationYearFrom=2003 Ars Electronica: CODE - The Language of our Time] festival, Linz, Sep 2003.
 
* ''[http://www.kurator.org/projects/after-the-net-1/ After the Net]'' exhibition, Centre del Carme, Valencia, 5-29 Jun 2008; [http://www.kurator.org/projects/after-the-net-2 Peninsula Arts Gallery], Plymouth, 12 Sep-23 Oct 2009; [http://www.kurator.org/projects/after-the-net-3/ Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca], Mexico, 3-5 Mar 2010. Curated by [[Joasia Krysa]] (KURATOR).
 
* ''[[Funware]]'' conference and symposium, Nov 2010-Jan 2011. Curated by [[Olga Goriunova]]; produced by [[aaaan.net]] ([[Annet Dekker]] and [[Annette Wolfsberger]]).
 
 
 
==Resources==
 
 
* [http://runme.org Runme], a software art repository. Launched in Jan 2003.  
 
* [http://runme.org Runme], a software art repository. Launched in Jan 2003.  
  
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''This chronology does not include events primarily concerned with [[computer art]] and [[internet art]] or more broadly with digital art and new media art.'' 
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* ''[http://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/01/en/conference.htm Transmediale 2001: DIY (do it yourself!)]'' festival conference, Berlin, 4-11 Feb 2001. This year the festival introduced an [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/01/en/software.htm award for "artistic software"], the first award given and solely dedicated to software art.
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* ''[http://www.hmkv.de/programm/programmpunkte/2002/Ausstellungen/2002_Kontrollfelder.php Kontrollfelder - Programmieren als künstlerische Praxis]'' exhibition, HMKV, Dortmund, 5 Apr-5 May 2002. Curated by [[Andreas Broeckmann]] and Matthias Weiß; organized by art.net.dortmund.de and transmediale, Berlin. [http://web.archive.org/web/20021118104102/http://www.hartware-projekte.de/programm/inhalt/kontroll.htm]
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* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20160203202826/http://generative.net/generator/ Generator]'' exhibition, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 1 May-22 Jun 2002; Spaces at Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 14-29 Sep 2002; Firstsite, Colchester, 8 Feb-29 Mar 2003. Curated by [[Geoff Cox]]. [http://vimeo.com/40386856 Video].
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* ''[[Readme]]'' festival held in four editions: Macros-center, Moscow, 18-19 May 2002; Media Centre Lume, Helsinki, 30-31 May 2003; Aarhus, 23-27 Aug 2004 (review: [http://web.archive.org/web/20070927230437/http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind04&L=new-media-curating&P=42827 Luining] (Crumb)); HMKV, Dortmund, 4-5 Nov 2005. Conceived by [[Olga Goriunova]] and [[Alexei Shulgin]].
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* ''[http://www.digitalcraft.org/?artikel_id=237 I love you - computer_viren_hacker_kultur]'' exhibition, Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt/Main, 23 May-13 Jun 2002; later as part of Transmediale festival, Berlin, 31 Jan-5 Feb 2003; [http://www.digitalcraft.org/iloveyou/ Museum of Contemporary Art], Novi Sad, 22 Jun-4 Jul 2006; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 11-24 Jul 2006.
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* ''[http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/ CODeDOC]'' online exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, Sep 2002; later as part of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2003. Curated by [[Christiane Paul]].
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* ''[[Software Art|Software Art: A curatorial fiction or a new perspective?]]'' conference, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 4 Feb 2003. Part of Transmediale festival.
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* ''[http://90.146.8.18/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_overview.asp?iPresentationYearFrom=2003 Ars Electronica: CODE: The Language of our Time]'' festival, Linz, 6-11 Sep 2003. [http://archive.aec.at/showmode/print/?id=229 Booklet]. Reviews: [http://www.virose.pt/vector/b_07/manovich_e.html Manovich] (Nettime), [http://leonardo.info/reviews/nov2003/engeli_ars.html Engeli] (Leonardo).
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* ''[http://www.kurator.org/projects/after-the-net-1/ After the Net]'' exhibition, Centre del Carme, Valencia, 5-29 Jun 2008; [http://www.kurator.org/projects/after-the-net-2 Peninsula Arts Gallery], Plymouth, 12 Sep-23 Oct 2009; [http://www.kurator.org/projects/after-the-net-3/ Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca], Mexico, 3-5 Mar 2010. Curated by [[Joasia Krysa]] (KURATOR).
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* ''[[Funware]]'' conference and symposium, Nov 2010-Jan 2011. Curated by [[Olga Goriunova]]; produced by [[aaaan.net]] ([[Annet Dekker]] and [[Annette Wolfsberger]]).
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==Publications==
 
==Publications==
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[[Image:Read_me_Software_Art_and_Cultures_2004.jpg|thumb|200px|''Read_me: Software Art & Cultures'', 2004.]]
 
[[Image:Cramer_Florian_Words_Made_Flesh.jpg|thumb|200px|Florian Cramer, ''Words Made Flesh'', 2005, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=99 Log].]]  
 
[[Image:Cramer_Florian_Words_Made_Flesh.jpg|thumb|200px|Florian Cramer, ''Words Made Flesh'', 2005, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=99 Log].]]  
 
[[Image:Goriunova_Olga_ed_Readme_100.jpg|thumb|200px|Olga Goriunova (ed.), ''Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory'', 2006, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8265 Log].]]
 
[[Image:Goriunova_Olga_ed_Readme_100.jpg|thumb|200px|Olga Goriunova (ed.), ''Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory'', 2006, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8265 Log].]]
 
[[Image:Mansoux_Aymeric_de_Valk_Marloes_eds_FLOSS_Art.jpg|thumb|200px|Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), ''FLOSS+Art'', 2008, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=31 Log].]]
 
[[Image:Mansoux_Aymeric_de_Valk_Marloes_eds_FLOSS_Art.jpg|thumb|200px|Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), ''FLOSS+Art'', 2008, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=31 Log].]]
''This bibliography excludes texts primarily concerned with [[computer art]] and [[internet art]], even though, technically speaking, they overlap with software art. They are included on their respective pages instead.''   
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''This bibliography does not include texts primarily concerned with [[computer art]] and [[internet art]] or more broadly with digital art and new media art.''   
 
===Books, Catalogues===
 
===Books, Catalogues===
* Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin (eds.), ''[http://readme.runme.org/1.2/teoren.htm Read_me Festival 1.2: Software Art/Software Art Games]'', Moscow, 2002.
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* ''[http://www.weisskunst.de/rtfm/rtfm1/ rtfm. Eine Kompilation von Texten, Netz-Fundstücken, Beschreibungen und Gebrauchsanweisungen für die Ausstellung 'Kontrollfelder. Programmieren als künstlerische Praxis']'', 2002. {{de}}
* Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin (eds.), ''[http://www.m-cult.org/read_me/reader.php ReadMe 2.3 Reader: About Software Art]'', Helsinki: NIFCA, 2003, 87 pp. [http://worldcat.org/oclc/53816331]
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* ''[http://readme.runme.org/1.2/teoren.htm Read_me Festival 1.2: Software Art/Software Art Games]'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Moscow, 2002.
* Gerrit Gohlke (ed.), ''SoftwareArt: eine Reportage über den Code'', Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2003, 68 pp. Based on the ''Software Art'' conference. Texts by Inke Arns, Tilman Baumgärtel, Florian Cramer, Gerrit Gohlke, Karl Heinz Jeron. [http://www.bethanien.de/publications/software-art/] {{de}}/{{en}}  
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* ''I love you - Computer, Viren, Hacker, Kultur'', ed. Franziska Nori, Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), 2002, 114 pp. Catalogue. {{de}},{{en}}
* Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin (eds.), ''Read_me: Software Art & Cultures'', Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2004, 396 pp. [http://www.gbv.de/dms/bsz/toc/bsz113690347inh.pdf TOC].
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* ''SoftwareArt: eine Reportage über den Code'', ed. Gerrit Gohlke, Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2003, 68 pp. Based on the ''Software Art'' conference. Texts by Inke Arns, Tilman Baumgärtel, Florian Cramer, Gerrit Gohlke, Karl Heinz Jeron. [http://www.bethanien.de/publications/software-art/] {{de}}/{{en}}  
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* ''[http://www.m-cult.org/read_me/reader.php ReadMe 2.3 Reader: About Software Art]'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Helsinki: NIFCA, 2003, 87 pp. [http://worldcat.org/oclc/53816331]
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* ''[http://90.146.8.18/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_catalog.asp?iProjectID=12281 Ars Electronica: CODE: The Language of our Time], Linz: Ars Electronica, 2003. Catalogue.
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* ''Read_me: Software Art & Cultures'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2004, 396 pp. [http://www.gbv.de/dms/bsz/toc/bsz113690347inh.pdf TOC]. Conference proceedings and exhibition catalogue. [http://en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/r/read_me/]. Review: [http://leonardo.info/reviews/sept2005/read_knight.html Knight] (Leonardo).
 
* Florian Cramer, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=99 ''Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination''], Rotterdam: Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2005, 140 pp. [http://cramer.plaintext.cc/all/words_made_flesh/html/words_made_flesh.html]  
 
* Florian Cramer, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=99 ''Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination''], Rotterdam: Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2005, 140 pp. [http://cramer.plaintext.cc/all/words_made_flesh/html/words_made_flesh.html]  
* Joasia Krysa (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2625 Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems]'', Autonomedia/I-DAT, 2006, 288 pp.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2625 Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems]'', ed. Joasia Krysa, Autonomedia/I-DAT, 2006, 288 pp.
* Olga Goriunova (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8265 Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory]'', Dortmund: Hartware MedienKunstVerein, 2006.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8265 Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory]'', ed. Olga Goriunova, Dortmund: Hartware MedienKunstVerein, 2006.
* Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.): ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=31 FLOSS+Art]'', Poitiers: GOTO10, and London: Mute, 2008, 320 pp.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=31 FLOSS+Art]'', eds. Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk, Poitiers: GOTO10, and London: Mute, 2008, 320 pp.
 
* Geoff Cox, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=507 Antithesis: The Dialectics of Software Art]'', Aarhus University, 2010, 232 pp. Based on author's PhD thesis, 2006.
 
* Geoff Cox, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=507 Antithesis: The Dialectics of Software Art]'', Aarhus University, 2010, 232 pp. Based on author's PhD thesis, 2006.
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=128 Digital Artists’ Handbook]'', folly and GOTO10, 2009, 228 pp.
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=128 Digital Artists’ Handbook]'', folly and GOTO10, 2009, 228 pp.
* Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, LUST (eds.), [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=43c41464a9a87616e3dd15c922c20bdd ''Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture'': "Code"], New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010, 176 pp.
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* [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=43c41464a9a87616e3dd15c922c20bdd ''Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture'': "Code"], eds. Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, and LUST, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010, 176 pp.
 
* Warren Sack, ''The Software Arts'', MIT Press, (forthcoming).
 
* Warren Sack, ''The Software Arts'', MIT Press, (forthcoming).
  
 
===Book chapters, Papers, Articles===
 
===Book chapters, Papers, Articles===
 
* Edward A. Shanken, [http://www.artexetra.com/House.html "The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of 'Software' as a Metaphor for Art"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 6:10, Nov 1998; repr. in ''Reframing Consciousness: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era'', ed. Roy Ascott, Exeter: Intellect, 1999.
 
* Edward A. Shanken, [http://www.artexetra.com/House.html "The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of 'Software' as a Metaphor for Art"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 6:10, Nov 1998; repr. in ''Reframing Consciousness: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era'', ed. Roy Ascott, Exeter: Intellect, 1999.
* Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Adrian Ward, [http://web.archive.org/web/20091016000544/http://www.generative.net/papers/aesthetics/ "The Aesthetics of Generative Code"], 2000. Paper delivered at the ''Generative Art 00'' conference, Milan, 2000. [http://www.generativeart.com/on/cic/2000/ADEWARD.HTM]
 
 
* Tilman Baumgärtel, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160809123843/http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/tilman.php "Experimental Software"], 2000. Paper presented at the ''Art+Communication'' conference, Riga, 26 Aug 2000.
 
* Tilman Baumgärtel, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160809123843/http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/tilman.php "Experimental Software"], 2000. Paper presented at the ''Art+Communication'' conference, Riga, 26 Aug 2000.
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* Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Adrian Ward, [http://web.archive.org/web/20091016000544/http://www.generative.net/papers/aesthetics/ "The Aesthetics of Generative Code"], 2000. Paper delivered at the ''Generative Art 00'' conference, Milan, Dec 2000. [http://www.generativeart.com/on/cic/2000/ADEWARD.HTM]
 
* Florian Cramer, Ulrike Gabriel, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/software_art_and_writing/software_art_and_writing.html "Software Art"], 15 Aug 2001, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_Gabriel_Ulrike_2001_Software_Art.pdf|PDF]]; repr. in ''DIY Media: Kunst und digitale Medien: Software, Partizipation, Distribution. Transmediale.01'', eds. Andreas Broeckmann and Susanne Jaschko, Berlin: Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs, 2001, pp 29-33 [https://transmediale.de/de/do-it-yourself-publ], repr. as "Software Art and Writing", ''American Book Review'' 22:6, Sep-Oct 2001 [http://americanbookreview.org/issueContent.asp?id=37]; repr. as [https://web.archive.org/web/20020622191420/http://www.rhizome.org:80/object.rhiz?2848 "On Software Art"], in ''Rhizome'', 20 Sep 2001. Written 15 Aug 2001. {{de}}
 
* Florian Cramer, Ulrike Gabriel, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/software_art_and_writing/software_art_and_writing.html "Software Art"], 15 Aug 2001, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_Gabriel_Ulrike_2001_Software_Art.pdf|PDF]]; repr. in ''DIY Media: Kunst und digitale Medien: Software, Partizipation, Distribution. Transmediale.01'', eds. Andreas Broeckmann and Susanne Jaschko, Berlin: Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs, 2001, pp 29-33 [https://transmediale.de/de/do-it-yourself-publ], repr. as "Software Art and Writing", ''American Book Review'' 22:6, Sep-Oct 2001 [http://americanbookreview.org/issueContent.asp?id=37]; repr. as [https://web.archive.org/web/20020622191420/http://www.rhizome.org:80/object.rhiz?2848 "On Software Art"], in ''Rhizome'', 20 Sep 2001. Written 15 Aug 2001. {{de}}
 
* Tilman Baumgärtel, [https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Experimentelle-Software-3453228.html "Experimentelle Software. Zu einigen neueren Computerprogrammen von Künstlern"], ''Telepolis'', 28 Oct 2001. {{de}}
 
* Tilman Baumgärtel, [https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Experimentelle-Software-3453228.html "Experimentelle Software. Zu einigen neueren Computerprogrammen von Künstlern"], ''Telepolis'', 28 Oct 2001. {{de}}
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** [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/concepts_notations_software_art.html "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art"], 23 Mar 2002, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_2002_Concepts_Notations_Software_Art.pdf|PDF]].  
 
** [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/concepts_notations_software_art.html "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art"], 23 Mar 2002, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_2002_Concepts_Notations_Software_Art.pdf|PDF]].  
 
* Florian Cramer, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/software_decontextualizaton.pdf "Contextualizing Software Art"], [18 May] 2002.
 
* Florian Cramer, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/software_decontextualizaton.pdf "Contextualizing Software Art"], [18 May] 2002.
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* Amy Alexander, Cue P. Doll, Florian Cramer, RTMark, Alexei Shulgin, [http://art.runme.org/1044963779-8973-1/Read_Me%20Festival%201_2.txt "Read_Me Festival 1.2 Jury Statement"], May 2002. [http://runme.org/project/+statement/]
 
* Thor Magnusson, [http://www.ixi-software.net/thor/pa_lowres.pdf ''Processor Art: Currents in the Process Oriented Works of Generative and Software Art''], 2002, 116 pp. Thesis.
 
* Thor Magnusson, [http://www.ixi-software.net/thor/pa_lowres.pdf ''Processor Art: Currents in the Process Oriented Works of Generative and Software Art''], 2002, 116 pp. Thesis.
 
* Ricardo Barreto, Paula Perissinotto, [http://www.file.org.br/the_culture_of_immanence.doc "The Culture of Immanence"], in ''Internet Art'', São Paulo: IMESP, 2002.  
 
* Ricardo Barreto, Paula Perissinotto, [http://www.file.org.br/the_culture_of_immanence.doc "The Culture of Immanence"], in ''Internet Art'', São Paulo: IMESP, 2002.  
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* Simon Yuill, [[Media:Yuill_Simon_2004_Code_Art_Brutalism.pdf|"Code Art Brutalism: Low-level Systems and Simple Programs"]], Apr 2004; repr. in ''Read_me: Software Art & Cultures'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2004.
 
* Simon Yuill, [[Media:Yuill_Simon_2004_Code_Art_Brutalism.pdf|"Code Art Brutalism: Low-level Systems and Simple Programs"]], Apr 2004; repr. in ''Read_me: Software Art & Cultures'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2004.
 
* Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Adrian Ward, [[Media:Cox_McLean_Ward_2004_Coding_Praxis_Reconsidering_the_Aesthetics_of_Code.pdf|"Coding Praxis: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Code"]], in ''Read_me: Software Art & Cultures'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2004, pp 160-174. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the symposium ''Programmation-Orientee Art'', University of Paris: Sorbonne, Mar 2004.
 
* Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Adrian Ward, [[Media:Cox_McLean_Ward_2004_Coding_Praxis_Reconsidering_the_Aesthetics_of_Code.pdf|"Coding Praxis: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Code"]], in ''Read_me: Software Art & Cultures'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2004, pp 160-174. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the symposium ''Programmation-Orientee Art'', University of Paris: Sorbonne, Mar 2004.
* Andreas Broeckmann, [http://web.archive.org/web/20040614202632/http://runtimeart.mi2.hr/TextAndreasBroeckmann "Runtime Art: Software, Art, Aesthetics"], 24 May 2004.
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* Inke Arns, [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/generative_tools/software_art/scroll/ "Read_me, run_me, execute_me. Code als ausführbarer Text: Softwarekunst und ihr Fokus auf Programmcodes als performative Texte"], ''MedienKunstNetz'', 2004. {{de}}
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** [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/generative-tools/read_me/scroll/ "Read_me, run_me, execute_me: Code as Executable Text: Software Art and its Focus on Program Code as Performative Text"], trans. Donald Kiraly, ''MediaArtNet'', 2004.
 
* Josephine Bosma, [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/media_spaces/scroll/ "Constructing Media Spaces: The novelty of net(worked) art was and is all about access and engagement"], ''MediaArtNet'', 2004.
 
* Josephine Bosma, [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/media_spaces/scroll/ "Constructing Media Spaces: The novelty of net(worked) art was and is all about access and engagement"], ''MediaArtNet'', 2004.
 
** [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/public_sphere_s/medienraeume/scroll/ "Die Konstruktion von Medienräumen. Zugang und Engagement: das eigentlich Neue an der Netz(werk)kunst"], trans. Nikolaus G. Schneider, ''MedienKunstNetz'', 2004. {{de}}
 
** [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/public_sphere_s/medienraeume/scroll/ "Die Konstruktion von Medienräumen. Zugang und Engagement: das eigentlich Neue an der Netz(werk)kunst"], trans. Nikolaus G. Schneider, ''MedienKunstNetz'', 2004. {{de}}
* Peter Luining, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070927230437/http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind04&L=new-media-curating&P=42827 "Read_Me 2004 review"], ''crumb'', 22 Sep 2004. An extensive review of the ''Run_Me'' software art conference/festival.
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* Andreas Broeckmann, [http://web.archive.org/web/20040614202632/http://runtimeart.mi2.hr/TextAndreasBroeckmann "Runtime Art: Software, Art, Aesthetics"], 24 May 2004.
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* Inke Arns, [[Media:Arns_Inke_2005_Code_as_Performative_Speech_Act.pdf|"Code as Performative Speech Act"]], ''Artnodes'', Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Jul 2005.
 
* Andreas Broeckmann, [http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Software+Art "Software Art Aesthetics"], ''Mono'' 1, Porto: FBAUP, Jul 2007, pp 158-167.
 
* Andreas Broeckmann, [http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Software+Art "Software Art Aesthetics"], ''Mono'' 1, Porto: FBAUP, Jul 2007, pp 158-167.
 
* Geoff Cox, [http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/texts/generator/generator.pdf "Generator: The Value of Software Art"], in ''Issues in Curating, Contemporary Art and Performance'', ed. Judith Rugg, Bristol: Intellect, 2007.
 
* Geoff Cox, [http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/texts/generator/generator.pdf "Generator: The Value of Software Art"], in ''Issues in Curating, Contemporary Art and Performance'', ed. Judith Rugg, Bristol: Intellect, 2007.

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Also artistic software, critical software, experimental software, speculative software.

Repositories

  • Runme, a software art repository. Launched in Jan 2003.

Artists, theorists, initiatives

Events

This chronology does not include events primarily concerned with computer art and internet art or more broadly with digital art and new media art.

Publications

Read_me: Software Art & Cultures, 2004.
Florian Cramer, Words Made Flesh, 2005, Log.
Olga Goriunova (ed.), Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory, 2006, Log.
Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), FLOSS+Art, 2008, Log.

This bibliography does not include texts primarily concerned with computer art and internet art or more broadly with digital art and new media art.

Books, Catalogues

Book chapters, Papers, Articles

See also