Creating the tools – Call for Artworks and Artist’s Presentations
Many digital images testify of the software with which they were created. At times, the specific aesthetics of the software is predominant over the style and aesthetic choices of the creator of these images. Creators who work with computational tools are wise to consider that they are interacting with a history of software creation and a context of visual culture within which these tools have been programmed.
Writing the software that underlies these computational tools is a cultural activity with a significant (but often overlooked) creative impact. The programmers of these computational tools define cultural processes as they shape code with their own mental images and worldviews. We want to emphasize the role of software creation as an aesthetic cultural activity, and are soliciting artwork and papers/artist’s presentations that explore this space.
Submission deadline: Monday 18 April 2011
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