Sacks sells both passive and interactive
software art on CDs in editions ranging from 10 to 200 for $300 to $1,000.
Simon Jr.'s exhibition "Outside In: Ten Years of
Software Art," seems to be an explosion of the guts of the machine.
In a recent manifesto, new-media critic Lev Manovich celebrates the "new modernism of data visualizations, vector nets, pixel-thin grids and arrows" in
software art. And, this past summer, curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev mounted an international group exhibition in Turin polemically titled "The Moderns," featuring work by a generation of visual artists, most born in the 1960s, who reanimate modernist practices for a digital age.
In Radical
Software art and activism were shown to be formally equivalent on account of their shared practice of feedback.
Data visualization, hypertext narrative,
software art, alternative browsers, and games--adjunct curator of new media art Christiane Paul's Biennial roundup casts the Net wide, despite its modest (ten-work) size.
TRANSMEDIALE (WWW.TRANSMEDIALE.DE), a media-art festival and competition that takes place in Berlin this month, is introducing a new category devoted to
software art. As a judge of that part of the competition (along with Florian Cramer, a lecturer in comparative literature at Freie Universitat Berlin, and Ulrike Gabriel, a media artist, and with the guidance of artistic director Andreas Broeckmann), I was most interested in artists who had trained on computers in art school, outgrown commercial applications, and turned to writing their own code.
