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Hi list Software as art >If your artwork is 'software that does something' (such as Mongrel's >'Linker' software) then what issues are involved? Do curators get it? >Is it 'enabling others', or artwork in itself? I could accept that Art is anything which folk present as Art and people then look at in the special way they reserve for looking at Art. Though perhaps as we are talking software I should say 'interact with' rather than 'look at'. http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/software.htm However proposes that there can be 'Art' residing in code itself. Code can be elegant and imaginative, it may have clarity, simplicity, strength, energy etc. However does having an aesthetic necessarily make something Art? I've seen this sort of aesthetic applied to mathematics, engineering and architecture... > How do you 'show' or >distribute it? To interpret this literally: In a code development environment or simulator where you can step forward, halt and continue the instruction sequence and watch what happens? If the idea is to establish that software is an Art form then it would be logical to show it in a similar context and way as other Art: eg in some kind of special space which invokes the necessary awe and aura; in a museum/gallery - virtual or otherwise). I suspect Transmediale might gain from promoting this in an advanced academic computer engineering context. Similarly I'd have thought programmers would be the folk best able to appreciate the aesthetic values promoted by Transmediale. Regards Dave David Franklin Gallery Computing and Electronics National Museum of Photography Film & Television Bradford, Yorks , UK. BD1 1NQ Tel: 01274 203389 ******************************************************************** This e-mail and attachments are intended for the named addressee only and are confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender immediately, delete the message from your computer system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not reflect the views of the National Museum of Science & Industry. The NMSI website can be found at http://www.nmsi.ac.uk *********************************************************************