Executing Queries as a form of artistic practice
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Executing queries as a form of artistic practice
Winnie Soon, Aarhus University @ Overwhelming Imagination, Beijing (China)
Query [a] query language is a well-defined linguistic tool, the expressions of which correspond to requests one might want to make a data base. With each request, or query, there is associated a response, or answer.
(Chandra and Harel 1980, p. 156)
Web API as a form of query
Src: http://www.wamda.com/2015/03/souq-com-opens-api-public-spur-mena-ecommerce
Web API as a form of query
Web 2.0 “platform”
Web 2.0 “platform” In order to become a platform, a software program needs to provide an interface that allows for its (re)programming…[The web API] makes a website programmable by offering structured access to its data and functionality and turns it into a platform that others can build on.
(Helmond, 2015, p. 35)
Bit.Fall (2002-2006) by Julius Popp
Net.Art Generator (1997) by Cornelia Sollfrank
Murmur Study (2012) by Christopher Baker
Two projects – By Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard
Jsut code (2010-2012)
If I wrote you a love letter would you write back? (and thousand of other questions) (2012-2016)
Jsut code (2010-2012) Image by www.WeAreTAPE.com
Jsut code (2010-2012)
Image by www.WeAreTAPE.com
Jsut code (2010-2012)
If I wrote you a love letter would you write back? (and thousands of other questions)
Postdigital Aesthetics: is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.
http://www.250miles.net/techno-mourning/
Thank you
Winnie Soon Artist-researcher @ Aarhus University
http://www.siusoon.net [email protected]