1. software art: process, plan, procedure fdm 20c introduction to digital media lecture 14.10.2008 warren sack / film & digital media department / university of california, santa cruz

2. last time Introduction to programming and to project 2

3. last last time can creative thinking/composition be simply a matter of composition and selection of found (i.e., already made) materials? (cf., vannevar bush, “as we may think”)

4. today Art as process, art as software

5. outline for today conceptual art –marcel duchamp: art can be about ideas –sol lewitt: wall drawings as procedures example wall drawings SFMOMA video on Lewitt’s method excerpt from “paragraphs on conceptual art” casey reas on sol lewitt: {software} structures @ whitney –jack burnham and the software exhibition: connecting conceptual art and software art software art –what is software? –what is software art? what is art made with software? e.g., “photoshopping” what is software art? e.g., adrian ward’s “autoshop”

6. marcel duchamp art can be about ideas

7. sol lewitt wall drawings

8. sol lewitt paragraphs on conceptual art

9. sol lewitt: methods sfmoma short video

10. casey reas on sol lewitt {software} structures

11. jack burnham’s software exhibition from conceptual art to software: emphasizing process, planning and procedure

12. what is software?

13. what is software art? what is not: art made with software is not necessarily software art; e.g., “photoshopping”

14. what is software art adrian ward’s “autoshop”

15. software art: examples mark napier’s “shredder”: potatoland.org/shredder

16. software art: examples CODeDEC exhibition @ whitney artport

17. project 2: connecting three points html + javascript: drawing (moving) lines on a webpage

18. next time open source and free culture