[from 2002]
class praxis
dim theory as
variant
dim practice as
variant
function action() as
variant
return
theory + practice
end function
end class
algorithmic art
Harold Cohen, Aaron, drawing machine, robot artist, <http://www.scinetphotos.com/aaron.html>
Critical Art Ensemble, bio-tech projects as the so-called new frontier of pan-capitalism and its discontents, <http://www.critical-art.net/>, etc.
Hans Dehlinger, scribblings, searching for order in the code of generated drawings, using plotters and snobol (ancient computer language) <http://www.generativeart.com/abst2000/abst100.htm>
Ernest Edmonds et al, Creativity + Cognition conferences, <http://creative.lboro.ac.uk/eae/>
Steve Grand, Lucy, artificial lifeforms <http://www.cyberlife-research.com>
International Obfuscated C Code Contest, un-compiled c prog that is self-referential, reproducing the logic of code <http://www.Ioccc.org/2000/dhyang.c> & read-me <http://www.Ioccc.org/2000/dhyang.hint>
Tom Ray, Tierra, self-replicating program <http://www.isd.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/>
Santa Fe Institute, on complexity <http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/research/focus/compPhysics/index.html>
Antoine Schmitt, algorithmic art resource, process-centred art <http://www.gratin.org/>
Sonia Sheridan, Generative systems program at School of Art Institute of Chicago (1970s) <http://www.swiftsite.com/sonart/>
Bogdan Soban, determinism and programming unique graphics <http://www.soban-art.com>
STAR et al, Vivaria <http://www.vivaria.net>
Roman Verostko et al, algorists <http://www.verostko.com/>
code literature
Florian Cramer, Permutations, combinatory writings (aka oulipean) <http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/permutations/index.cgi>; and his <nettime> unstable digest
Charles Hartman & Hugh Kenner, virtual muse poems <http://www.dartmouth.edu/acad-inst/upne/f9622a.html>
Jeff Instone's un R est, OuLiPean inspired computer works <http://www.var.ndirect.co.uk/var/interruptus/>
Ray Kurzweil, cybernetic poetics <http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~akurd/e-poets.htm>
Talan Memmott, Lexia to Perplexia <http://www.memmott.org/talan/>
OuLiPo (ouvrier litterature potentiale) creative constraints, especially poet raymond queneau + mathematician francois le lionnais <http://www.nous.org.uk/oulipo.html>
Perl journal, perl poetry <http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/contest-poetry.html>
Quines, program source code that generates an exact copy of itself <http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm>
Eugene Thacker, ed., hard_code, collection of code-inspired texts <http://www.altx.com/ebooks/hard_code.html>
Joanna Walsh, oulibot <http://www.oulibot.org>
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, hypertext fiction, the impermanence agent customises its story for each user <http://www.impermanenceagent.com/agent/>
hacktivism/net.activism
Chaos Computer Club, political activists (since the early 1980s), Germany <http://www.ccc.de/>
Richardo Dominguez, Electronic Disturbance Theatre <http://www.thing.net/~rdom/>
Electronic Civil Disobedience, <http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html>
Etoy, toywar, pseudo-corporate strategies <http://www.toywar.com/>
The Next Five Minutes, Tactical Media <http://www.v2.nl/n5m/start.html>
Hacktivism, <http://hacktivism.tao.ca>
hacktivismo and the cult of the dead cow <http://www.cultdeadcow.com>
hal: hackers at large conference <http://www.infowar.com/conf/01/conf_032001a_j.shtml>
Hardt & Negri, cracked hardt + negri's empire pdf, the paradox of copyrighted political writing <http://excess4all.com/empire>
®TMark, anti-corporate corporation <http://www.rtmark.com>
Reclaim the Streets, <http://www.gn.apc.org/rts>
net.art
Amy Alexander, interview yourself <http://www.plagiarist.org/>
antiorp, aka nn <http://www.m9ndfukc.com/>
backspace <http://www.backspace.org/>
Rachel Baker & Heath Bunting, irational.org <http://www.irational.org>
Andreas Broeckmann, old net.art references <http://www.v2.nl/~andreas/links/netart.html>
Vuk Cosic, ascii art <http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/>
I/O/D's webstalker, browser art <http://www.backspace.org/iod>
International browser day competition <http://www.waag.org/browser/>
Lisa Jevbratt, 1:1, perl art <http://c5corp.com/1to1>
jodi, map of net.art <http://map.jodi.org/>
jodi, noise signals <http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/index.html> jodi, %wrong browser <http://www.wrongbrowser.com>
detritus.net, dedicated to recycled culture and recombinant art <http://detritus.net/rhizome.html>
Olia Lialina, teleportacia <http://www.teleportacia.org/>
46.liverpoolst.org, manifest browser and user manual <http://www.46liverpoolst.org/>
Frederic Madre, spam <http://pleine-peau.com/n8/spam/>
mi-ga <http://www.o-o.lt/mi_ga/>
Nullpointer, webtracer software <http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/-/webtracer/>
Alexei Shulgin, ascii art <http://www.easylife.org/>
V2_lab, (unstable media) alternative OS V2_OS <http://www.v2.nl/v2_os/>
0100101110101101.ORG, aka darko maver et al, data-nudism, about life_sharing <HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG>; also Florian Cramer's 0100101110110101.org parody of above <http://www.0100101110110101.org/>
software art
Stuart Brisley & Adrian Ward with Geoff Cox, Ordure, curating virtual rubbish dump <http://www.ordure.org>; <http://www.museum-ordure.org.uk/>
CODE conference, collaboration and ownership, intellectual property rights <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/CODE/rel_texts.html>
deKam, (re-mixing the American Memories Collections at the Library of Congress) revision history v.3 <http://www.revisionhistory.org/data/Revision_History_3.hqx>
Ulrike Gabriel, codelab, dedicated to research in generative systems and code as artistic material <http://www.codelab-berlin.de/codelabExp.html>
netochka nezvanova, nn (nameless nobody), aka integer, antiorp or m9ndfuck - <http://www.m9ndfukc.org/korporat/kode_macintosh.html>; <http://www.eusocial.com/nato.0+55+3d/242.0000.html>; <http://www.m9ndfukc.com/>
Alex McLean, forkbomb.pl, CPU executing machine code as a microperformance, <http://slab.org/>
Mongrel, Linker <http://www.linker.org.uk/>
Antoine Moreau, copyleft_attitude, hacking copyright into copyleft <http://www.artlibre.org>
Mark Napier, shredder and riot, aesthetics of programming <http://potatoland.org/>
& interview <http://www.afsnitp.dk/onoff/>
Perl definition <http://www.foldoc.org>
Cornelia Sollfrank, net.art generator & female extension, a smart artist makes the machine do the work <http://www.obn.org/generator> & interview with Florian Cramer, Hacking the art operating system (see bibliography).
Richard Stallman, free software foundation, GNU license agreement <http://www.gnu.org/>
STAR et al, Donald Rodney: Autoicon <http://www.iniva.org/autoicon/>
Adrian Ward, anagrammar, download software <http://www.signwave.co.uk/products/anagrammar.sit>
Adrian Ward, auto-illustrator, parody of commercial software <http://www.auto-illustrator.com/>
Adrian Ward, a portrait of netochka nezvanova 1.1g special edition for Geoff Cox <http://stub.org/>
0100101110101101.ORG, EpidemiC - biennale.py, virus art < http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/biennale_py/>
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