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Also ''artistic software'', ''critical software'', ''experimental software'', ''speculative software''.
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Also ''artistic software'', ''critical software'', ''experimental software'', ''speculative software'', ''software-based art''.
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==Term==
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"Software Art ... incorporates projects in which self-written algorithmic computer software (stand alone programmes or script-based applications) is not merely a functional tool, but is itself an artistic creation." [http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/rohrpost-0101/msg00039.html (Transmediale 2001)]
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"[S]oftware art could be generally defined as an art of which the material is formal instruction code and/or which addresses cultural concepts of software." [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/concepts_notations_software_art.html (Florian Cramer, 2002)]
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"[A]t the basis of each piece of software there are definite algorithms, but if conventional programs are instruments serving purely pragmatic purposes, the result of the work of artistic programs often finds itself outside of the pragmatic and the rational." [http://readme.runme.org/1.2/teb1e.htm (Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, 2002)]
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"Software culture is the living culture of programmers and users, as active participants in a world of or mediated by software. In its heart it circumscribes the field of intensive immaterial production, if on the level of coding, use, speculation or critical reflection and at the periphery every aspect of human life which is somehow driven or controlled by software. Software art is reflecting the realities and potentials of this culture." [http://runme.org/faq.tt2 (Pit Schultz, c2002)]
  
 
==Repositories==
 
==Repositories==
* [http://runme.org Runme], a software art repository. Launched in Jan 2003.  
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* [http://runme.org Runme], a software art repository. Launched in Jan 2003. Developed by [[Amy Alexander]], [[Florian Cramer]], [[Matthew Fuller]], [[Olga Goriunova]], Thomax Kaulmann, [[Alex McLean]], [[Pit Schultz]], [[Alexei Shulgin]], and [[The Yes Men]]. In summer 2003 [[Hans Bernhard]] and [[Alessandro Ludovico]] have joined the expert team.
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==Works==
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; Works highlighted on Transmediale (2001-04) and Read_me (2002-05) festivals
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* mez breeze, ''Re (ad.htm'', 2002. Honorable mention at Read_me festival 1.2, 2002. [http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/] [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm] [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/mez/mez-presentation.pdf]
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* Jonah Brucker-Cohen, ''[http://www.coin-operated.com/2010/05/13/bumplist-an-email-community-for-the-determined-2003/ The Story of BumpList: From Experiment to Community]'', 2003. Honorable mention at Transmediale 2004 Software Art award. [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html] [https://transmediale.de/content/bumplist]
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* The Carbon Defense League, ''[http://classic.rhizome.org/artbase/artwork/16166/ re-code.com]'', 2003. Nominated for Transmediale 2004 Software Art award. [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html]
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* CooLer, ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20070731004023/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/inde6.htm#gluck WinGluk Builder]'', 2002. Honorable mention at Read_me festival 1.2, 2002. [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm]
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* Chris Csikszentmihályi, ''[http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=366 DJ I Robot]'', 2001. Shortlisted for Transmediale Artistic Software award, 2001. [http://www.rpi.edu/~csiksc/research/] [https://transmediale.de/content/chris-csikszentmihalyi-dj-i-robot] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080410210900/http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/s_juryStatement.htm]
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* Mark Daggett, ''DeskSwap'', 2002. Main award at Read_me festival 1.2, 2002. [http://www.deskswap.com] [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm]
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* Frédéric Durieu, ''[http://archiv.digitalcraft.org/lecielestbleu/html/puppettool.htm Puppet Tool]'', 2002. Received Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901aD4b4dz0] [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php]
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* Daniel Hahn, Dietmar Schiffermüller, ''roman rétrograde'', 2001. Received Transmediale 2002 Software Art award. [http://www.kleinteilproduktion.de] [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211203/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/awardnom.php?sect=2]
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* Dorothea Johne/Alex Zahn, ''[http://www.netzspannung.org/cat/servlet/CatServlet?cmd=netzkollektor&subCommand=showEntry&forward=&entryId=58167&lang=en Der Schlaf der Vernunft / Dreaming Neural Network]'', 2001-02. Received Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php]
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* Eldar Karhalev, Ivan Khimin, ''[http://runme.org/project/+screensaver/ ScreenSaver]'', 2001. Main award at Read_me festival 1.2, 2002. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070702104738/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/inde5.htm] [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm]
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* Yunchul Kim, ''[http://yunchulkim.net/voidtraffic/ (void)traffic]'', 2003. Honorable mention at Transmediale 2004 Software Art award. [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html]
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* LAN, ''[http://netartcommons.walkerart.org/articled251.html?sid=02/04/26/0455210&mode=thread Tracenoizer: Disinformation on Demand]'', 2001-03. Received Transmediale 2002 Software Art award. Honorable mention at Read_me festival 1.2, 2002. [http://www.tracenoizer.org/] [http://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_41.pdf] [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211203/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/awardnom.php?sect=2] [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm] [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/tracenoizer/]
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* LAN (Annina Rüst), ''[http://www.anninaruest.com/a/supervillainizer/index.html SuPerVillainizer (Conspiracy Client)]'', 2002. Received Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [http://runme.org/project/+supervillainizer/] [http://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_41.pdf#page=2] [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php]
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* Joan Leandre, ''[http://rc.kubasik.biz/ retroYou r/c]'', 1999-2001. Received Transmediale 2002 Software Art award. [http://runme.org/project/+SOFTSFRAGILE/] [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211203/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/awardnom.php?sect=2] [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/retroyou/]
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* Golan Levin, ''[http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/aves/ Audiovisual Environment Suite]'', 1998-2000. Shortlisted for Transmediale Artistic Software award, 2001.  [http://web.archive.org/web/20080410210900/http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/s_juryStatement.htm]
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* Robert Luxemburg (Sebastian Lütgert), ''[http://www.stuk.be/en/conceptual-crisis-private-property-crisis-practise The Conceptual Crisis of Private Property as a Crisis in Practice]'', 2003. Nominated for Transmediale 2004 Software Art award. [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html]
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* Alex McLean, ''[https://github.com/yaxu/animal.pl animal.pl]'', 2002. Received Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php]
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* Alex McLean, ''[https://slab.org/forkbomb-pl/ forkbomb.pl]'', 2002. Received Transmediale 2002 Software Art award. [http://runme.org/project/+forkbomb/] [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211203/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/awardnom.php?sect=2]
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* Max Moswitzer, Margarete Jahrmann, ''[http://www.climax.at/nybble-engine-toolz/ nybble-engine-toolZ]'', 2000-04. Honorable mention at Transmediale 2004 Software Art award. [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html] [http://v2.nl/lab/projects/nybble-engine-toolz]
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* Netochka Nezvanova, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20030223231626/http://eusocial.com:80/nebula.m81/ Nebula.M81]'', 1999. Shortlisted for Transmediale Artistic Software award, 2001. [http://web.archive.org/web/20080410210900/http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/s_juryStatement.htm] [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/nebula/]
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* Shusha Niederberger, Niki Passath, Michael Wlodkowski, ''[http://www.shusha.ch/index.php/art/exegaze/ exegaze]'', 2003. Received Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [http://niki.xarch.at/wordpad/?page_id=42] [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php]
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* Joshua Nimoy, ''[https://jtnimoy.com/blogs/projects/14882287 Textension]'', 1999. Main award at Read_me festival 1.2, 2002. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070403082629/http://www.jtnimoy.com:80/textension/] [http://web.archive.org/web/20070524200841/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/inde10.htm] [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm]
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* Daniela Plewe, ''[http://www.sabonjo.de/mainmenu.html Ultima Ratio]'', 1998-2000. Shortlisted for Transmediale Artistic Software award, 2001. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaOPugDu99U] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080410210900/http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/s_juryStatement.htm] [https://transmediale.de/content/ultima-ratio] [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/ultima-ratio/] [https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/ultima-ratio.html]
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* Projekt Gnutenberg (Sebastian Lütgert, Florian Cramer), ''txtz ware'', 2002. Received Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [http://runme.org/project/+pngreader/] [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php]
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* RSG, ''[http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/ Carnivore]'', 2002. Honorable mention at Read_me festival 1.2, 2002. [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm]
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* Radical Software Group, Alex Galloway, ''[http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/artists/galloway/ How to Win 'Super Mario Bros']'', 2003. Honorable mention at Transmediale 2004 Software Art award. [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html]
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* Antoine Schmitt, ''[http://www.antoineschmitt.com/vexation-1/ Vexation 1]'', 2000. Shortlisted for Transmediale Artistic Software award, 2001. [http://web.archive.org/web/20080410210900/http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/s_juryStatement.htm]
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* Schoenerwissen (Marcus Hauer and Anne Pascual), ''[http://www.digitalcraft.org/?artikel_id=541 Minitasking]'', 2002. Received Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php] [http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?index=103&id=103&domain=]
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* socialfiction.org (Wilfried Hou Je Bek), ''[http://runme.org/project/+dot-walk/ .walk]'', 2003-04. Nominated for Transmediale 2004 Software Art award. [https://transmediale.de/content/walk] [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html] [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/dot-walk/]
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* Vladislav Tselicshev, ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20070702104738/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/inde5.htm Portret of President]'', 2002. Honorable mention at Read_me festival 1.2, 2002. [http://chells.boom.ru/] [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm]
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* Adrian Ward/Signwave, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090403174208/http://swai.signwave.co.uk:80/ Auto-Illustrator]'', 2001. Shortlisted for Transmediale Artistic Software award, 2001. [https://web.archive.org/web/20021209155048/http://www.adeward.com/swai.html] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080410210900/http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/s_juryStatement.htm] [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/autoillustrator/] [http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/auto-illustrator]
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==Artists, theorists, initiatives==
 
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==Events==
 
==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.''   
 
''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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|{{#widget:Html5media|url=https://monoskop.org/media/video/read_me_festival_1.2_Moscow_2002.mp4|width=300|height=244|poster=}}<br><center>{{sm|''read_me festival 1.2'' video documentation,<br>Moscow, 18-19 May 2002, 4h32m. [https://vimeo.com/15082611 Source].}}</center>
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; 2001
 
* ''[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. Awarded through 2004: [http://web.archive.org/web/20081106013402/http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/software.htm 2001], [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211203/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/awardnom.php?sect=2 2002], [http://web.archive.org/web/20040905213715/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/awardnom.php?sect=2 2003], [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html 2004].
 
* ''[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. Awarded through 2004: [http://web.archive.org/web/20081106013402/http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/software.htm 2001], [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211203/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/awardnom.php?sect=2 2002], [http://web.archive.org/web/20040905213715/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/awardnom.php?sect=2 2003], [https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/04/page/awards/award.0.software.1.html 2004].
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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]
 
* ''[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]
* ''[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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* ''[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 ([http://vimeo.com/40386856 video]); Firstsite, Colchester, 8 Feb-29 Mar 2003. Curated by [[Geoff Cox]] and Tom Trevor.  
* ''[[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://readme.runme.org/1.2/ read_me festival 1.2: Software Art / Software Art Games]'', DOM Cultural Center, Moscow, 18-19 May 2002. Directed by Sergey Teterin; curated by [[Olga Goriunova]] and [[Alexei Shulgin]]; organized by State Center for Museums and Exhibitions 'ROSIZO' and Macros-Center. [https://vimeo.com/15082611 Video], [http://web.archive.org/web/20030109083810/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/feeden.htm Photos]. [http://www.teterin.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65]
 
* ''[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.
 
* ''[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.
 
* ''[http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/ CODeDOC]'' online exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, launched Sep 2002; later as part of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2003. Curated by [[Christiane Paul]].
 
* ''[http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/ CODeDOC]'' online exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, launched Sep 2002; later as part of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2003. Curated by [[Christiane Paul]].
 
* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20030411203909/http://electrohype.org/sve.html Electrohype 2002]'' exhibition, Carolinahallen & Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, 23-27 Oct 2002.
 
* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20030411203909/http://electrohype.org/sve.html Electrohype 2002]'' exhibition, Carolinahallen & Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, 23-27 Oct 2002.
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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.
 
* ''[[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://www.m-cult.org/read_me/ Read_Me 2.3 Software art festival]'', Media Centre Lume, Helsinki, 30-31 May 2003. Curated by [[Olga Goriunova]] and [[Alexei Shulgin]].
 
* ''[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).
 
* ''[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://readme.runme.org/2004 Read_Me 2004 software art festival]'', University of Aarhus & Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, Aarhus, 23-27 Aug 2004. Organised by [[Amy Alexander]], [[Olga Goriunova]], and [[Alexei Shulgin]]. 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).
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* ''[http://readme.runme.org/ Readme100: Temporary Software Art Factory. 4th international Readme festival on software art and culture]'', HMKV, Dortmund, 4-5 Nov 2005. Organised by [[Inke Arns]], [[Olga Goriunova]], [[Francis Hunger]] and [[Alexei Shulgin]].
 
* ''[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).
 
* ''[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]]).
 
* ''[[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==
 
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===Books, Catalogues, Special issues===
 
===Books, Catalogues, Special issues===
 
* ''[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}}
 
* ''[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}}
* ''[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.
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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: Macros-center, 2002. With 4 CDs containing 72 works. [http://web.archive.org/web/20030109083153/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/catalogen.htm]
 
* ''I love you - Computer, Viren, Hacker, Kultur'', ed. Franziska Nori, Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), 2002, 114 pp. Catalogue. {{de}},{{en}}
 
* ''I love you - Computer, Viren, Hacker, Kultur'', ed. Franziska Nori, Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), 2002, 114 pp. Catalogue. {{de}},{{en}}
 
* ''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}}  
 
* ''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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===Book chapters, Papers, Articles, Statements===
 
===Book chapters, Papers, Articles, Statements===
* 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.
 
 
* 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.
 
* 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]
 
* 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]
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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}}
 
* 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}}
 
* Florian Cramer, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/selbstausfuehrender_entwurf.html "Der selbstausführende Entwurf: Software und Softwarekunst"], 24 Jan 2002. {{de}}
 
* Florian Cramer, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/selbstausfuehrender_entwurf.html "Der selbstausführende Entwurf: Software und Softwarekunst"], 24 Jan 2002. {{de}}
** [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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** [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://readme.runme.org/1.2/teb2e.htm repr. in] ''Read_me Festival 1.2'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Moscow, 2002.
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** [http://web.archive.org/web/20030407063143/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/teb2.htm "Kontsepty, sistemy zapisi, programmnoye obespecheniye, iskusstvo"] [Концепты, системы записи, программное обеспечение, искусство], in ''Read_me Festival 1.2'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Moscow, 2002. {{ru}}
 
* Golo Föllmer, Robert O'Kane, Antoine Schmitt, [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211220/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/softjurystate.php "Jury Statement"], Berlin, Feb 2002. Statement on the Transmediale 2002 Software Art award. [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211203/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/awardnom.php?sect=2 Works]. [http://web.archive.org/web/20030930212913/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/event.php?id=24]
 
* Golo Föllmer, Robert O'Kane, Antoine Schmitt, [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211220/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/softjurystate.php "Jury Statement"], Berlin, Feb 2002. Statement on the Transmediale 2002 Software Art award. [http://web.archive.org/web/20031026211203/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/awardnom.php?sect=2 Works]. [http://web.archive.org/web/20030930212913/http://www.transmediale.de/en/02/event.php?id=24]
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* Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin, [http://web.archive.org/web/20021128160456/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/teb1.htm "Artisticheskoye programmnoye obespecheniye dlya chaynikov, i, zaodno, mysli o novom mirovom poryadke"] [Артистическое программное обеспечение для чайников, и, заодно, мысли о новом мировом порядке], in ''Read_me Festival 1.2'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Moscow, 2002. {{ru}}
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** [http://readme.runme.org/1.2/teb1e.htm "Artistic Software for Dummies and, by the way, Thoughts About the New World Order"], in ''Read_me Festival 1.2'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Moscow, 2002.
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* Matthew Fuller, [http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0201/msg00025.html "Behind the Blip: Software as Culture (some routes into 'software criticism', more ways out)"], ''Nettime'', 7 Jan 2002; [http://readme.runme.org/1.2/teb3e.htm repr. in] ''Read_me Festival 1.2'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Moscow, 2002.
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** [http://web.archive.org/web/20021128155805/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/teb3.htm "Za signalom na ekrane: Programmnoye obespecheniye kak kultura"] [За сигналом на экране: Программное обеспечение как культура], in ''Read_me Festival 1.2'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Moscow, 2002. {{ru}}
 
* 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.
* 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/]
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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/] [http://web.archive.org/web/20030202210506/http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/adden.htm]
 
* 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.
 
* Hernando Barragán, [[Media:Barragan_Hernando_2002_Software_arte.pdf|"Software: ¿arte?"]], in ''Hipercubo/ok/: arte, ciencia y tecnología en contextos próximos'', eds. Andrés Burbano and Hernando Barragán, Bogotá: Comité de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de los Andes, 2002, pp 188-195; [[Media:Barragan_Hernando_2002_2007_Software_arte.pdf|repr. in]] ''El medio es el diseño audiovisual'', ed. Jorge La Ferla, Manizales, CO: Universidad de Caldas, and Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2007, pp 583-587; repr. in ''[https://www.academia.edu/11576930 Artes y medios audiovisuales: Un estado de situación II]'', ed. Jorge La Ferla, Buenos Aires: Nueva Librería, 2008, pp 135-139. [http://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/THEARCHIVE/FullRecord/tabid/88/doc/1093980/language/en-US/Default.aspx] {{es}}
 
* Hernando Barragán, [[Media:Barragan_Hernando_2002_Software_arte.pdf|"Software: ¿arte?"]], in ''Hipercubo/ok/: arte, ciencia y tecnología en contextos próximos'', eds. Andrés Burbano and Hernando Barragán, Bogotá: Comité de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de los Andes, 2002, pp 188-195; [[Media:Barragan_Hernando_2002_2007_Software_arte.pdf|repr. in]] ''El medio es el diseño audiovisual'', ed. Jorge La Ferla, Manizales, CO: Universidad de Caldas, and Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2007, pp 583-587; repr. in ''[https://www.academia.edu/11576930 Artes y medios audiovisuales: Un estado de situación II]'', ed. Jorge La Ferla, Buenos Aires: Nueva Librería, 2008, pp 135-139. [http://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/THEARCHIVE/FullRecord/tabid/88/doc/1093980/language/en-US/Default.aspx] {{es}}
 
* Amy Alexander, Margarethe Jahrmann, David Rokeby, [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php "Jury Statement"], Berlin, Feb 2003. Statement on the Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [http://web.archive.org/web/20050419150955/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/awardnom.php?sect=2 Works].
 
* Amy Alexander, Margarethe Jahrmann, David Rokeby, [http://web.archive.org/web/20050421183530/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/softjurystate.php "Jury Statement"], Berlin, Feb 2003. Statement on the Transmediale 2003 Software Art award. [http://web.archive.org/web/20050419150955/http://www.transmediale.de/03/en/03/awardnom.php?sect=2 Works].
* 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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* Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin, [http://art.runme.org/1046615440-32394-0/runme_interview.htm "QuickView on Software Art"], in ''ReadMe 2.3 Reader'', eds. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Helsinki: NIFCA, 2003. Survey; participants: Amy Alexander, Florian Cramer, Matthew Fuller, Thomax Kaulmann, Alex McLean, Pit Schultz, The Yes Men.
 
* 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}}
 
* 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}}
 
** [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]].  
 
** [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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Also artistic software, critical software, experimental software, speculative software, software-based art.

Term

"Software Art ... incorporates projects in which self-written algorithmic computer software (stand alone programmes or script-based applications) is not merely a functional tool, but is itself an artistic creation." (Transmediale 2001)

"[S]oftware art could be generally defined as an art of which the material is formal instruction code and/or which addresses cultural concepts of software." (Florian Cramer, 2002)

"[A]t the basis of each piece of software there are definite algorithms, but if conventional programs are instruments serving purely pragmatic purposes, the result of the work of artistic programs often finds itself outside of the pragmatic and the rational." (Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, 2002)

"Software culture is the living culture of programmers and users, as active participants in a world of or mediated by software. In its heart it circumscribes the field of intensive immaterial production, if on the level of coding, use, speculation or critical reflection and at the periphery every aspect of human life which is somehow driven or controlled by software. Software art is reflecting the realities and potentials of this culture." (Pit Schultz, c2002)

Repositories

Works

Works highlighted on Transmediale (2001-04) and Read_me (2002-05) festivals

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.


read_me festival 1.2 video documentation,
Moscow, 18-19 May 2002, 4h32m. Source.
2001
2002
2003
2004 and later

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, Special issues

Book chapters, Papers, Articles, Statements

See also