Week 2 :
 
Reading Homework:

Systems aesthetics + cyborg art: the legacy of Jack Burnham.

Penny, Simon
Sculpture (Washington, D.C.); January/February 1999, Vol. 18 Issue 1,
p36-41, 6p
Illustration ; Color
Article

 

"Whereas video remained primarily an image medium, albeit technologized, cyber art is concerned with simulated behavior and the building of virtual machines as artworks. "Code" is the ephemeral structuring system of the work. Code is an enigmatic and paradoxical phenomenon: a text that is simultaneously a (virtual) machine is a long step from the pragmatic materiality of sculpture."

 

Code could hold more meaning that just the tool that machine use to operate. The code does hold a fundamental meaning of the series of numbers , letters and symbols.Some contemporary artist  have used as art pieces as the main focus of the art. Random numbers and letters. In other words, codes and data makes great art.

 

http://www.williamverdult.com/home/2009/9/18/recap-art-museum-as-research-lab-yazzys-at-wwwwilliamverdult.html