Software art

Events

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.
Transmediale 2001.
Kontrollfelder - Programmieren als künstlerische Praxis exhibition, HMKV, Dortmund, 5 April - 5 May 2002. Curated by Andreas Broeckmann and Matthias Weiß.
Readme festival. Four editions were held: Moscow, 2002; Helsinki, 2003; Aarhus, 2004; Dortmund, 2005. Conceived by Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin.
Generator exhibition, Spacex Gallery, May-June 2002; later toured the UK. Curated by Geoff Cox.
CODeDOC online exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, September 2002; Later as part of Ars Electronica Festival, 2003. Curated by Christiane Paul.
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.
Ars Electronica: CODE - The Language of our Time festival, Linz, September 2003.

Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin (eds.), Read_me 1.2, Moscow, 2002.
Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin (eds.), ReadMe 2.3 Reader: About Software Art, Helsinki: NIFCA, 2003.
Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin (eds.), Readme Edition 2004: Software Art and Cultures, Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2004, 400 pp.
- Simon Yuill, "Code Art Brutalism: Low-level systems and simple programs".
Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.): FLOSS+Art, Poitiers: GOTO10, and London: Mute, 2008, 320 pp.
Joasia Krysa (ed.), Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems, Autonomedia/I-DAT, 2006, 288 pp.
Olga Goriunova (ed.), Readme 100: Temporary Software Art Factory, Dortmund: Hartware MedienKunstVerein, 2006.
Geoff Cox, Antithesis: The Dialectics of Software Art, Aarhus University, 2010, 232 pp. Book version of a PhD thesis, 2006.
Digital Artists’ Handbook, folly and GOTO10, 2009, 228 pp.

Edward A. Shanken, "The House that Jack Built - Jack Burnham's Concept of 'Software' as a Metaphor for Art", Leonardo Electronic Almanac 6:10, 1998.
Florian Cramer, Ulrike Gabriel, "Software Art", in Andreas Broeckmann, Susanne Jaschko (eds.), DIY Media - Kunst und digitale Medien: Software - Partizipation - Distribution. Transmediale.01, Berlin, 2001, pp 29–33.
Florian Cramer, "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art", 23 March 2002. [1]
Thor Magnusson, "Processor Art: Currents in the Process Oriented Works of Generative and Software Art", 2002.
Ricardo Barreto, Paula Perissinotto, "The Culture of Immanence", in Internet Art, São Paulo: IMESP, 2002.
Andreas Broegger, "Software Art - an introduction", Copenhagen, 24 September 2003.
Andreas Broeckmann, "Runtime Art: Software, Art, Aesthetics", 24 May 2004.
Josephine Bosma, "Constructing Media Spaces", MediaArtNet, 2004.
Peter Luining, "Read_Me 2004 review", crumb, 22 September 2004. An extensive review of the Run_Me software art conference/festival.
Andreas Broeckmann, "Software Art Aesthetics", Mono, No. 1 (July 2007), Porto: FBAUP, pp 158-167.
Geoff Cox, "Generator: The Value of Software Art", in Judith Rugg (ed.), Issues in Curating, Contemporary Art and Performance, Bristol: Intellect, 2007.
Geoff Cox, "Software Art Has No History", for re:place conference, Berlin, 2007.
Simon Yuill, "All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses", Mute, 23 May 2008.