The Art of Programming – 2002
Edited by Frans Evers, Lucas van der Velden, Jan Peter van der Wenden
Published by Sonic Acts Press / De Balie
Design by Isabelle Vigier
Book, 177 pp., English text, illustrated, inc. DVD & CD
The conference The Art of Programming was held during the 9th edition of the Sonic Acts festival which took place from 6 – 9 December 2001 in Paradiso in Amsterdam and in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. The conference covered a range of subjects concerning recent international developments in digital art and digital music. The last day of the conference concentrated on the way these issues are dealt with in art education in The Netherlands. During the conference a number of provoking questions was raised concerning the role of art and the artist in the 21st century. Will the technological revolution and the biological revolution become paralleled by a revolution in the arts? Will ‘moist media’ emerge in which dry silicon computers and wet living biology will be brought together? Will interactive art forms lead to new arts practice in which organic life, the human body and human consciousness will be re-connected in essentially new ways? Will all this lead to a new convergence of art and science? These and many other thrilling questions are dealt with by a great number of artists working in electronic music and the media arts.
The conference book contains contributions by: Roy Ascott, Paul Berg, Robert Henke, Micheal Punt, Casey Reas, Robin Rimbaud, Joel Ryan, Thecla Schiphorst, Chris Speed, Adrian Ward and by a dozen of artists and scientists working in Dutch art schools and universities.
The DVD contains a registrations of the festival with excerpts of Meam, Bola Meam, Gescom Dj’s, Pfadfinderei, Otto von Schirach, Framefarmers and Scanner (18:49).
The CD contains tracks by: Slub, Claustrum, Dadata, Funckarma, Kent, Wanga(vs. Quality.filtersystem), Needle, Out of Data, Monolake, Perspects and Scanner (49:48).
