CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Software Art, Eben Moglen, Ethnocentrism
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Interactivity, intimately linked, as edwards has argued, to artificial intelligence, stemmed initially form an admission of human fallibility and of the limitations of procedural programing language chun 77. The function of software art, as manovich argues, parallels marxist ideology critique. The veil of ideology is torn asunder by grasping the relations between the action of the individual actors and the system as a whole. Software enables this critique by representing it at a scale in a microworld that we can make sense of. It is truly remarkable that software designed to obfuscate the machine and create a virtual one and based on buried commands has led to the overwhelming notion of computation as transparent. This notion of transparency has less to do with actual technological operations than the microworld" established by computation chun. Software art is the ability to program software to create art. In a formal sense computers understood as comprising software and hardware are ideology machines.
