software art: process,

plan, procedure

fdm 20c introduction to digital media

lecture 18.04.2007

warren sack / film & digital media department / university of california, santa cruz

waiting list

• principles of ordering– transfers have preference over non-transfers– majors have preference over non-majors– juniors have preference over sophomores– sophomores have preference over frosh– those who came the first day of class have

preference over those who did not– within categories, people have been randomly

assigned a position

waiting list (everyone still attending should now have a permission code)

1. stephanie ramirez

2. chris nuth

3. melody thauxquchay

4. jennifer kim

5. mai xia vang

6. taylor broek

7. michael martinez

8. chance finley

9. brooke young

10.andy shauer

11. jesus rosales, jr.

waiting list

12. melissa freeland

13. sarah jeremiah

14. sean murphy

15. jill barry

16. alexander whittlesey

17. sophie ludel

18. ryoji yoshimura

19. kyle eck

20. justin rimando

21. kameron niksefat

waiting list

22. travis delucia

23. robeson bowmani

24. dustin escoffery

25. dana shinn

26. mary spenger

27. lance woodson

28. junji yamakoshi

29. lisa ballard

30. madison williams

31. kristen mccurley

waiting list

32. nicole wright

33. aris millare

34. natasia schibinger

35. abraham rivas

36. richard flores

37. enes mentese

last time

• hypertext as a new form of reading and

writing/composing

• two more key points for the course

• vannevar bush and his essay “as we may think”

• tristan tzara, william burroughs, david bowie and the

method of “cut-ups”

• overview of project one

last time

• can creative thinking/composition be simply a matter of composition and selection of found (i.e., already made) materials? (cf., vannevar bush, “as we may think”)

today

• how might the artist specify or plan the way -- i.e., the processes -- of selection and composition?

outline for today• conceptual art

– marcel duchamp: art can be about ideas– sol lewitt: wall drawings as procedures

• example wall drawings• SFMOMA video on Lewitt’s method• excerpt from “paragraphs on conceptual art”• casey reas on sol lewitt: {software} structures @ whitney

– jack burnham and the software exhibition: • connecting conceptual art and software art

• software art– what is software?– what is software art?

• what is art made with software? e.g., “photoshopping”• what is software art? e.g., adrian ward’s “autoshop”

• getting started with project 2

marcel duchamp

• art can be about ideas

sol lewitt

• wall drawings

sol lewitt

• paragraphs on conceptual art

sol lewitt: methods

• sfmoma short video

casey reas on sol lewitt

• {software} structures

jack burnham’s software exhibition

• from conceptual art to software: emphasising process, planning and procedure

what is software?

what is software art?

• what is not: art made with software is not necessarily software art; e.g., “photoshopping”

what is software art

• adrian ward’s “autoshop”

software art: examples

• mark napier’s “shredder”: potatoland.org/shredder

software art: examples

• CODeDEC exhibition @ whitney artport

project 2: connecting three points

• html + javascript: drawing (moving) lines on a webpage

next time

• open source and free culture