Erkki Huhtamo
This reading dealt with a lot of interactive art and how the artworks need participation from the viewers. The artists welcome the viewers to take part within the art piece and that the artwork itself would not be complete without the viewers involving themselves. In Anna Sew Hoy’s “Wrist Cast” 2008, Hoy invites the viewers to write on this oversized cast and how the art piece would truly be complete after the show ended and different people had written messages and other things.
Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich writes about the idea of databases. Databases are now a huge part of the internet and can be accessed anywhere and contains everything anyone wants to know. Also Manovich writes that there is basically no end to the internet because it is linked with texts, designs, images, and links. One of the biggest databases that is currently out there is Google. It has become so big that I and many others use the phrase “go google it” when someone wants to find more information on something. Google seems like a huge limitless database with pages and pages of different links and images.
Florian Cramer
In Florian Cramer’s reading, she compares software to many different things and one of them is a Dadaist poem. There are codes and rules when dealing with software and there are also rules and instructions when making a poem in the Dada way. There is also a structure to software that is much like a poem.
Casey Reas
Casey Reas wanted programming to be as “fluid” as a drawing and wanted to structure the code as if it was a drawing. Reas would erase, redraw, reshape, and mold it into a computer drawing as if it was a true drawing. Using instructions, Reas would create something that had lines going in one direction and another in a different one. Also because it was machine created there were no imperfections that would usually be in a physical drawing. This technique of using computer software to draw reminded me of those pictures that people made online that were only composed of slashes, letters, or numbers.
