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Also ''critical software'', ''experimental software'', ''speculative software''.
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Also ''artistic software'', ''critical software'', ''experimental software'', ''speculative software''.
  
 
==Events==
 
==Events==
 
[[Image:Software-catalogue.jpg|thumb|258px|Catalogue for the ''[[Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art|Software]]'' show, 1970. [[Media:Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf|Download]].]]
 
[[Image:Software-catalogue.jpg|thumb|258px|Catalogue for the ''[[Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art|Software]]'' show, 1970. [[Media:Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf|Download]].]]
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* [[Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art]] exhibition, Jewish Museum, NYC, 16 September - 8 November 1970; later at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 16 December 1970 - 14 February 1971. Curated by [[Jack Burnham]].
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* ''[[Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art]]'' exhibition, Jewish Museum, NYC, 16 Sep-8 Nov 1970; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 16 Dec 1970-14 Feb 1971. Curated by [[Jack Burnham]].
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* [http://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/01/en/conference.htm Transmediale 2001: DIY (do it yourself!)] festival conference, Berlin, 4-11 February 2001.
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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 April - 5 May 2002. Curated by [[Andreas Broeckmann]] and [[Matthias Weiß]].
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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]].
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* [[Readme]] festival. Four editions were held: Moscow, 2002; Helsinki, 2003; Aarhus, 2004; Dortmund, 2005. Conceived by [[Olga Goriunova]] and [[Alexei Shulgin]].
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* ''[[Readme]]'' festival held in four editions: Moscow, 2002; Helsinki, 2003; Aarhus, 2004; Dortmund, 2005. Conceived by [[Olga Goriunova]] and [[Alexei Shulgin]].
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20160203202826/http://generative.net/generator/ Generator] exhibition, Spacex Gallery, May-June 2002; later toured the UK. Curated by [[Geoff Cox]]. [http://vimeo.com/40386856 Video].
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* ''[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].
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* [http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/ CODeDOC] online exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, September 2002; Later as part of Ars Electronica Festival, 2003. Curated by [[Christiane Paul]].
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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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* [http://www.digitalcraft.org/?artikel_id=237 I love you - computer_viren_hacker_kultur] exhibition, Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt/Main, May-June 2002; later as part of Transmediale festival, Berlin, 31 January-5 February 2003.
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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, May-Jun 2002; later as part of Transmediale festival, Berlin, 31 Jan-5 Feb 2003.
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* [[Software Art|Software Art: A curatorial fiction or a new perspective?]] conference, Bethanien, Berlin, 4 February 2003.
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* ''[[Software Art|Software Art: A curatorial fiction or a new perspective?]]'' conference, Bethanien, Berlin, 4 Feb 2003.
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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, September 2003.
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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, Sep 2003.
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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; Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth, 12 Sep-23 Oct 2009 [http://www.kurator.org/projects/after-the-net-2/]; Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca, Mexico, 3-5 Mar 2010 [http://www.kurator.org/projects/after-the-net-3/]. Curated by Joasia Krysa (KURATOR).
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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, November 2010-January 2011. Curated by [[Olga Goriunova]]. Produced by [[aaaan.net]].
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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]]).
  
 
==Resources==
 
==Resources==
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* [http://runme.org Runme], a software art repository. Launched in January 2003.  
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* [http://runme.org Runme], a software art repository. Launched in Jan 2003.  
  
 
==Artists, theorists, initiatives==
 
==Artists, theorists, initiatives==
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* Olga Goriunova (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8265 Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory]'', Dortmund: Hartware MedienKunstVerein, 2006.
 
* Olga Goriunova (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8265 Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory]'', 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.
 
* 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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* Geoff Cox, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=507 Antithesis: The Dialectics of Software Art]'', Aarhus University, 2010, 232 pp. Book version of a PhD thesis, 2006.
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* 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.
 
* 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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; Book chapters, Papers, Articles
 
; Book chapters, Papers, Articles
 
* Edward A. Shanken, [http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/ARTICLES/jack.html "The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of 'Software' as a Metaphor for Art"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 6:10, 1998.
 
* Edward A. Shanken, [http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/ARTICLES/jack.html "The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of 'Software' as a Metaphor for Art"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 6:10, 1998.
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* Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Adrian Ward, "[http://web.archive.org/web/20070913115849/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]
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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, 2000. [http://www.generativeart.com/on/cic/2000/ADEWARD.HTM]
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* Tilman Baumgärtel, "[http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/tilman.php Experimental Software]". Paper presented at the Art+Communication conference, Riga, 26 August 2000.
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* 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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* Florian Cramer, Ulrike Gabriel, "[http://www.netzliteratur.net/cramer/software_art_-_transmediale.html Software Art]", in ''DIY Media - Kunst und digitale Medien: Software - Partizipation - Distribution. Transmediale.01'', eds. Andreas Broeckmann and Susanne Jaschko, Berlin, 2001, pp 29–33.
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* 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}}
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* Tilman Baumgärtel, "[http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/9/9908/1.html Experimentelle Software. Zu einigen neueren Computerprogrammen von Künstlern]", ''Telepolis'', 28 October 2001. {{de}}
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* 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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* Florian Cramer, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/concepts_notations_software_art.pdf "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art"], 23 March 2002. [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/concepts_notations_software_art.html]
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* Florian Cramer, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/selbstausfuehrender_entwurf.html "Der selbstausführende Entwurf: Software und Softwarekunst"], 24 Jan 2002. {{de}}
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* 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.
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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]].  
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* Florian Cramer, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/software_decontextualizaton.pdf "Contextualizing Software Art"], [18 May] 2002.
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* 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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* Florian Cramer, [https://www.netzliteratur.net/cramer/thesen_softwarekunst.html "Zehn Thesen zur Softwarekunst"], 2003. {{de}}
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* Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin, [http://art.runme.org/1046615440-32394-0/runme_interview.htm "QuickView on Software Art"], Feb 2003. Survey; participants: Amy Alexander, Florian Cramer, Matthew Fuller, Thomax Kaulmann, Alex McLean, Pit Schultz, The Yes Men.
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* Andreas Broegger, [http://www.artificial.dk/articles/software.htm "Software Art - an introduction"], Copenhagen, 24 September 2003.
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* Florian Cramer, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/10_thesen_zur_softwarekunst/10_thesen_zur_softwarekunst.html "Zehn Thesen zur Softwarekunst"], 23 Sep 2003, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_2003_Zehn_Thesen_zur_Softwarekunst.pdf|PDF]]; repr. in ''SoftwareArt: eine Reportage über den Code'', ed. Gerrit Gohlke, Berlin, 2003, pp 6-14. {{de}}
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* Andreas Broeckmann, "[http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/03-shaping-technologies/215_218_abroeckmann.pdf On Software as Art]", in ''Sarai Reader 2003: Shaping Technologies'', New Delhi 2003, pp 215-218.
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** [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/10_thesen_zur_softwarekunst/10_theses_about_software_art.html "Ten Theses about Software Art"], 23 Sep 2003, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_2003_Ten_Theses_about_Software_Art.pdf|PDF]].
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* 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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* Ivan Stehlík (mim), [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-31 "Software.art = Umenie programovať?"], ''3/4 Revue'' 14, Bratislava, 2003. {{sk}}
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* Andreas Broegger, [http://www.artificial.dk/articles/software.htm "Software Art - an introduction"], Copenhagen, 24 Sep 2003.
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* Andreas Broeckmann, "[http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/03-shaping-technologies/215_218_abroeckmann.pdf On Software as Art]", in ''Sarai Reader 2003: Shaping Technologies'', New Delhi, 2003, pp 215-218.
 
* Andreas Broeckmann, [http://web.archive.org/web/20040614202632/http://runtimeart.mi2.hr/TextAndreasBroeckmann "Runtime Art: Software, Art, Aesthetics"], 24 May 2004.
 
* Andreas Broeckmann, [http://web.archive.org/web/20040614202632/http://runtimeart.mi2.hr/TextAndreasBroeckmann "Runtime Art: Software, Art, Aesthetics"], 24 May 2004.
 
* Josephine Bosma, [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/media_spaces/works/ "Constructing Media Spaces"], ''MediaArtNet'', 2004.
 
* Josephine Bosma, [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/media_spaces/works/ "Constructing Media Spaces"], ''MediaArtNet'', 2004.
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* 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 September 2004. An extensive review of the Run_Me software art conference/festival.
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* 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://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Software+Art "Software Art Aesthetics"], ''Mono'', No. 1 (July 2007), Porto: FBAUP, pp 158-167.
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* 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.
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* Geoff Cox, [http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/texts/generator/generator.pdf "Generator: The Value of Software Art"], in Judith Rugg (ed.), ''Issues in Curating, Contemporary Art and Performance'', Bristol: Intellect, 2007.
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* 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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* Geoff Cox, [http://www.anti-thesis.net/projects/texts/softwarearthasnohistory.pdf "Software Art Has No History"], for re:place conference, Berlin, 2007.
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* Geoff Cox, [http://www.anti-thesis.net/projects/texts/softwarearthasnohistory.pdf "Software Art Has No History"], 2007. Paper given at ''re:place'' conference, Berlin.
 
* Simon Yuill, [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses "All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses"], ''Mute'', 23 May 2008.
 
* Simon Yuill, [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses "All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses"], ''Mute'', 23 May 2008.
 
* Jussi Parikka, "Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do?", in  ''Deleuze and Contemporary Art'', eds. Zepke and O’Sullivan, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, pp 116-132.
 
* Jussi Parikka, "Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do?", in  ''Deleuze and Contemporary Art'', eds. Zepke and O’Sullivan, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, pp 116-132.
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* Jana Horáková, [http://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/125887 "Softwarové umění: programování excesu"], ''Musicologica Brunensia'' 47:2 (2012), pp 23-47. {{cz}}
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* Monika Szücsová, ''Softwarové umenie: genealógia, história, jazyk'', Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 71 pp. Master's thesis. {{sk}}
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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[[Software studies]], [[Hacktivism]], [[Net art]], [[Code poetry]], [[Live coding]], [[FLOSS]], [[Demoscene]]
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[[Net art]], [[Software studies]], [[Hacktivism]], [[Code poetry]], [[Live coding]], [[FLOSS]], [[Demoscene]]
  
  
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Revision as of 11:21, 8 April 2017

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

Events

Catalogue for the Software show, 1970. Download.

Resources

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

Artists, theorists, initiatives

Bibliography

Olga Goriunova (ed.), Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory, 2006. Download.
Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), FLOSS+Art, 2008. Download.
Books
Book chapters, Papers, Articles

See also

Net art, Software studies, Hacktivism, Code poetry, Live coding, FLOSS, Demoscene


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