Art and Code

In this course we look at artists using game engines for expressive purposes, artists using low tech approaches to investigate pressing issues in technology, and artists generating work through machine learning (AI).
Other artists engage with the digital medium more deeply by working with code or by blurring the boundaries between art and engineering.
Why do some artists learn to program?
Can’t they just use existing applications?

Here are some examples of approaches and projects that are only possible through custom made software.

Imagining a different web

various demetricators by BenGrosser

Wee see in every direction by Jonas Lund (2013)

Imagining a different internet infrastructure

Newstweek by The Critical Engineering Working Group (Julian Oliver Danja Vasiliev) (2011)

Solar protocol by Solar Protocol is led by Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella (2021-)

Technically complex but easy to explain:
“A naturally intelligent network. This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from wherever there is the most sunshine.”

Keepalive by Aram Bartholl (2015)

Messa di Voce by Tmema, Blonk + La Barbara (2003)

Pixel by Adrien M & Claire B (2014)

LuYang Delusional World x LuYang Delusional Hell by Lu Yang (2020)