What kind of art is software? How do we name it? Reading this article was like peering expectantly into a curiosity shop only half-expecting to have your gaze fall on something familiar. Its all rather fascinating, some of even sounds or look a bit familiar. ...software is a unique art because it is so reactive. Not just on the screen, but over time, as programs adapt and change with the culture—a culture they help define... Then you realize its not a curiosity shop at all, but a proper museum, a curated collection, an archive of very important artifacts. Youve been peering into the past and the present at the same time and it somewhat feels like you should have known that. This what it means to hide in plain sight. The greatest works of software are not just code or programs, but social, expressive, human languages. They give us a shared set of norms and tools for expressing our ideas about words, or images... *queue Daft Punk* (I now want to take a trip to the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum - cooperhewitt.org) #introspection #nerdtastic #language
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:01:50 +0000