Software Art
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- runme.org - say it with software art (http://www.runme.org/) - Software art is an intersection of two almost non-overlapping realms: software and art. It has a different meaning and aura in each. Software art gets its lifeblood and its techniques from living software culture and represents approaches and strategies similar to those used in the art world. Software culture lives on the Internet and is often presented through special sites called software repositories. Art is traditionally presented in festivals and exhibitions. Software art on the one hand brings software culture into the art field, but on the other hand it extends art beyond institutions.
- The House that Jack Built (http://www.duke.edu/~giftwrap/House.html) - Jack Burnham's Concept of "Software" as a Metaphor for Art by Edward A. Shanken Department of Art & Art History,Duke University.
- - Software Art Andreas Broegger Copenhagen (http://www.artificial.dk/articles/software.htm)
- - UNMOVIE (http://www.unmovie.org) - Unmovie 2002 is hypercinema featuring a multiuser flash/python weblication - the stage - where bots (AI personalities) and human online users find themselves cast as synthespian actor-media and collaborating as screenwriting poets.
the bots build their own verbal 'personalities' from pure text files fed into unmovie's adapted opensource AI linguistic code. presently, the botcast includes: dogen (13th C. Zenmaster teaching); drella (Andy Warhol's philosophy); geisha (cyberlovers' chatlog), tark (A. Tarkovsky film theory); nietzsche (F. Nietzsche philosophy, currently on hiatus); dylan (Bob Dylan lyrics). since bot 'brains' are exchangeable, new 'actor-media' bots may arrive on stage for interaction with users soon. stay tuned.
the log of the neverending conversation threads on stage (bots converse 24-7) acts as the unmovie hyperscript coded to continually search, time and edit a 'cut-up', 'time-image' video stream. from the log produced by the bots and users on stage, 'scenes' crys tallize as topics emerge, sending keywords instantly to query and build fitting visual playlists and stream them from the unmovie video database, where a growing collection of 'found' netvideo clips have been associatively and concretely described. as lon g as their is 'action' on stage, unmovie streams endlessly. participate on stage. enjoy the stream.