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Software Art & Cultures Edition 2004

available from Aarhus University Press: http://www.unipress.dk/en-gb/Item.aspx?sku=1143

Contributions by Amy Alexander, Christian U. Andersen, Inke Arns, Hans Bernhard, Brad
Borevitz, Christophe Bruno, Nick Collins, Geoff Cox, Andreas Leo Findeisen, Matthew Fuller, Pau
David Alsina Gonzalez, Olga Goriunova, Dave Griffiths, Troels Degn Johansson, Anne Laforet, Fatima
Lasay, Jacob Lillemose, Alessandro Ludovico, Alex McLean, Fredrik Olofsson, Douwe Osinga, Soren
Pold, Casey Reas, Julian Rohrhuber, Annina Rust, Mirko Schaefer, Alexei Shulgin, Ewan Steel, Janez
Strehovec, Adrian Ward, Ernst Witt & Simon Yuill

Edited by Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin

397 p., softbound, ill., published by Center for Digital Aestetik-forskning, 2004
ISBN 87 988440 4 0

Software art is a practice that regards software as a cultural phenomenon that defines one of the
principal domains of our existence today. Thus, software is not regarded as an invisible layer, but
rather as a decisive level and a language working at reproduction of certain orders, whether
aesthetic, cultural, social or political. Software art creatively questions and redefines software
and its ways of functioning.

Software cultures as cultures generated by programmers, designers and software users are generous
sources of avant-garde thinking on digital culture and society. Software cultures define the way
software is created and functions, thus, influencing on composition and functioning of the basic
infrastructures of digital society. In that way, software cultures become inseparable (though
largely underestimated) from the form digital work, social institutes and cultural manifestations
take today. Software cultures initiate social change, act in political spheres, create and discover
new artistic realms and methodologies.

Table of Contents
Part one: Software Art and Cultures
Conference Papers

Introduction
Software: Social Perspective
The World According to Software
Software Art: Historical and Cultural Contents
Code, Text
Software Art: Visual and Conceptual Art Traditions

Part two: Runme.org Software Art Repository:
Project Features