Software Art: Programmable Code as a Means of Expression

SZŰCSOVÁ, Monika. Software Art: Programmable Code as a Means of Expression. Online. In Magnanimitas, Hradec Králové. Recenzovaný sborník příspěvků mezinárodní vědecké konference MMK 2020. Hradec Králové, Česká republika: Magnanimitas, 2020, p. 1208-1217. ISBN 978-80-87952-33-7.

Basic information

• Original name: Software Art: Programmable Code as a Means of Expression
• Authors: SZŰCSOVÁ, Monika (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Hradec Králové, Česká republika, Recenzovaný sborník příspěvků mezinárodní vědecké konference MMK 2020, p. 1208-1217, 10 pp. 2020.
• Publisher: Magnanimitas

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: electronic version available online
• WWW: Mezinárodní Masarykova konference pro doktorandy a mladé vědecké pracovníky 2020
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14410/20:00117613
• Organization unit: Faculty of Education
• ISBN: 978-80-87952-33-7
• Keywords in English: software art; expression; code; language; digital media; compute; performance
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to examine the production in contemporary new media art, specifically software art, within the category of expression as a means to conceive creative production within the context of today’s digital society. Inspired by the term ‘expressive processing’ coined by Noah Wardrip-Fruin in 2009, this paper provides an investigation of three patterns that, I suggest, most commonly define ways of expression in or through the artistic discipline of software art. Those include 1) expressive aspects of human, represented as authorial expression in determining the rules of the work at the moment of creation (coding), 2) on a physical level (physical performance of executing the code physically), and 3) machine (expressive processes of software functioning), which is the autonomous behavior of the system that is present at works as an element of randomness.

Links

• MUNI/A/1183/2017, interní kód MU: Name: Self-Image - výzkum fenoménu identity v umění a výchově (Acronym: Self-Image)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

• MUNI/A/1190/2019, interní kód MU: Name: Provoz umění a výtvarná výchova

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A