To further define the concept of software structures, i wrote and commissioned twentyfour implementations of these structures to isolate different aspects including. Casey reass writing on software structures and his reference to sol le witts method of wall drawings was an influence on my thinking process. I created three example software structures to search for relationships. Casey reas software structures, 2004 source whitney artport. Originally launched in 2001, artport provides access to original art works commissioned specifically for artport by the whitney, documentation of net art and new media art exhibitions at the whitney, and new media art in the museums collection. When internet art officially came into being with the advent of the www in the early 1990s, it immediately inspired a variety of dreams about the future of artistic and curatorial practice, among them the dream of a more or less radical reconfiguration of traditional. We thank christiane paul for her support and the opportunity to publish this work. To put focus on the process instead of the end product is not new in the art world, but software art exemplifies this approach appropriate to contemporary conditions cox 2007, p. Sep 07, 2018 commissioned by the whitney museum of american art for its artport website ap. Rules, codes and choreographies in art, 19652018 from nam june paiks 1960s experiments to alter images on a tv screen to ian chengs use of chatbots and jonah bruckercohen and katherine moriwakis comments on celebritymaking through software that tracks twitter feeds for reality tv shows, this exhibition spans 50 years of programmed works.
Artists with an interest in a more refined approach to the programming that underpins their work will also be interested in software engineering concepts. Her experimental software, cspan karaoke, received an honorary mention at transmediale, the berlinbased international media art festival. Youth insights artists in residence whitney museum of. Reass software structures explicitly reference the work of lewitt and explore the relevance of conceptual art to the idea of software art. Software structures was about the topic of instructions in art, from conceptualism to virtual reality, and was a work of software art inspired by the works and research of sol lewitt. Arrays allow to define type of variables that can hold several data items of the same kind. This code explores the potential influences of sol lewitts work on contemporary works of software. Discover the growing collection of high quality most relevant xxx movies and clips. Because a software structure is independent from a specific technology, it is possible to continually create manifestations of any software structure with current technology to avoid retrograde associations. Casey reas, creative coding for art and design clot magazine. Since welcoming her first child on july 27, the new mom has opened up about everything from her struggles to breastfeed to the nightmare that is. Software art does not take software for granted and therefore it also acknowledges the importance of the creation process of software cramer 2002.
Casey reas software structures, 2004 sol lewitt, walldrawing 106, 1971. Each circle has a different size and direction, but moves at the same slow rate. Reas or casey reas, is an american artist whose conceptual, procedural and minimal artworks explore. The spectrum spans from the pioneers of the 1960s, through the net art artists of the 1990s to the artists after 2000. Additive manufacturing offers significant benefits to the production of jet engines, said lynn gambill, chief engineer, manufacturing engineering and. Davis commemorated the whitney s acquisition of the sentence by designing, with vincent m. Originally created by casey reas with jared tarbell, robert hodgin, and william ngan, software structures was restored by reas in 2016 to work well with contemporary web browsers. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Casey edwin barker reas born 1972, also known as c. Reas or casey reas, is an american artist whose conceptual, procedural and minimal artworks explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. Similarly structure is another user defined data type available in c that allows to combine data items of different kinds. Software art grew out of this situation and so inherits its genealogy, or rather, the tendency to reconstruct its own genealogical tree. Software structures structurp a surface filled with one hundred medium to small circles. Projecting software on a wall creates more potential similarities between wall drawings and software structures.
This set of texts was completed as a part of the software structures project, commissioned by the whitney museums artport in 2004. The process series starts its numbering at 4 because of a series of texts titled structure 1 3 that came before. Oct 16, 2015 compatibility of the real estate software. The artist starts his process by writing textual descriptions that outline dynamic relations between visual elements and then implements them as software. Created by casey reas in association with jared tarbell, robert hodgin, and william ngan. It is interesting to note how in software art theory, the formulation of a definition continually interweaves with this retrospective investigation. Writings and talks data table acm siggraph art show. Spina, a logo wm music which now lives among the year 2000 contributions to the sentence itself. Dam gallery is based on the virtual digital art museum, which was founded in 1998. In 2003, reas published software structures for the whitney museum of american arts artport.
Dear teachers, we are delighted to welcome you to the exhibition, laura poitras. Wm stands for wrap music, a series of audio files that includes conceptual songmaking and historic sounds sent to the sentence in its earliest days. More generative artists 15104 introduction to computing. Software structures structurp a surface filled with one.
Since 2003 wolf lieser has established dam gallery in berlin. For the exhibition, artist, filmmaker, and journalist laura poitras has created an interrelated series of installations in the museums eighthfloor galleries. Her early net art work is represented in artbase collection, computer fine arts collection, the moscow online software archive, and a gatepage for the artport. Whitney ports office pictures 9 ideas to steal from whitney ports office makeover.
Casey reas has created a marvellous exploration of software structures at whitney artport. Suppose you want to keep track of your books in a library. Garys film an ecstatic experience, 2017, was on view in the exhibition an incomplete history of protest. This paper presents the analysis of two poles in the spectrum of image creation. Through documentary film and experimental video art, jatovia gary charts how structures of power shape our perceptions around representation, race, gender, sexuality, and violence. She found early success on youtube with a parenting series called i. A critical approach to generative art 29, whitelaw suggests the notion of systemstories to denote a translation or narration of the procedural.
This computer program including software design, programming structure, graphics, manual, and online help was created by the pcastructurepoint, the engineering software group of the portland cement association. A case study in preservation planning, lecture notes in computer science, vol. Flexible contexts, democratic filtering, and computer aided curating. Flexible contexts, democratic filtering, and computer aided. To put focus on the process instead of the end product is not new in the art world, but software art exemplifies this approach.
Software structures was created in 2004 by casey reas in association with jared tarbell, robert hodgin, and william ngan and was restored in 2016 by casey reas. Unless otherwise noted, the code was written with processing and p5. Astro noise, on view at the whitney from february 5 through may 1, 2016. A surface filled with one hundred medium to small sized circles. The new version is more userfriendly and allows sharing of information between the. Originally launched in 2001, artport provides access to original art works commissioned specifically for artport by the whitney. Rules, codes, and choreographies in art, 19652018 whitney museum of american art, new york, september 28, 2018april 14, 2019. Each circle has a different size and direction, but at the same slow rate. The original software was created as java applets which are no longer widely supported in web browsers. Please adjust your java security settings for whitney museum artport, in order to launch the programme.
Whitney museums portal to internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art and new media art. Reas states that he often spends a few days writing a piece of technical code and then works with it intuitively as if a drawing, erasing, reshaping and holding the surface through instinctual. The recode project invites people to port older works into new languages. This computer program including software design, programming. Aug 22, 2016 this code explores the potential influences of sol lewitts work on contemporary works of software. Histories of the digital now whitney museum of american art. For each, you may view the software, source code, and comments. Software structures a surface filled with one hundred medium to small sized circles.
Working extensively as both artist and scientist, giorgini was one of the first computer artists to combine software writing with early printing technologies, leaving an aesthetic legacy in the field of. The main focus is on the use of digital media as part of the art production and the dialogue with digital culture. In 1975 aldo giorgini developed a software program in fortran called fields, a numerical visual laboratory devoted entirely to art production. In terms of software, analogies may be made between the wall and the screen different sizes, resolution and the wall and the hardware on which the software is running different speeds and operating systems. Writings and talks data table acm siggraph art show archives. Commissioned by the whitney museum of american art for its artport website ap. No other sex tube is more popular and features more whitney c scenes than pornhub. A benefit of working with software structures instead of programming languages is that it places the work outside the current technological framework, which is continually becoming obsolete. A case study in preservation planning, lecture notes. Unless otherwise noted, the software was created with processing. A fantastic web site of generative art links by mikael hvidtfeldt christensen.
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