[UFO Chicago] [kconder@interaccess.com: [LUNI] Decoding the art of computer programming.]

[Adam Lazur]

C code meets a Mac looking web page...

                                        it must be art


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> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:49:14 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Kevin Conder <kconder@interaccess.com>
> To: Linux Users of Nothern Illinois mailing list <luni@luni.org>
> Subject: [LUNI] Decoding the art of computer programming.
> 
> 	I thought this announcement would be of interest to the
> programmers on this list...
> 
> -- Kevin Conder, kevin@kevindumpscore.com
> 
> 
> JULY 2002 EXHIBITION
> 
> BEAUT.E (CODE)
> Decoding the art of computer programming
> 
> http://www.andreapolli.com/beaute(code)/
> 
> Artemisia Gallery
> 700 North Carpenter
> Chicago, IL60622
> 312 226-7323
> 312 226-7756 fax
> www.artemisia.org
> info@artemisia.org
> 
> Dates: July 5-27, 2002
> Opening Reception: Friday, July 12, 2002, 5 pm ? 8 pm
> Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am ? 5 pm
> 
> 	This exhibition, the result of a collaboration between book and
> installation artist Karen Hanmer, digital media artist Andrea Polli, and
> software systems architect Robert Hanmerasks and attempts to find answers
> to the question: What are aesthetic values in contemporary computer
> programming and how they are similar to (or different from) aesthetic
> values in art?
> 
> 	The exhibition is the result of two years of research including:
> the study of the most influential authors on the art of computer
> programming (Donald Knuth, Christopher Alexander,Brian Kernighan and Jon
> Bentley, for example), group interviews at computer programming
> conferences, and written questionnaires completed by computer
> professionals. Karen Hanmer instigated this project out of a desire to
> find a point of entry into her husband Robert Hanmer's world of
> programming, and to find a way to convey the aesthetic nature of coding
> to other non-technical people. Robert's interest in the project came not
> only from a desire to communicate the beauty of programming, but also to
> illustrate 'good' coding practice and structures versus 'bad' coding to
> programmers, non-programmers, and programmers of the future. Andrea Polli
> was naturally drawn to this project because at a young age, her computer
> scientist father conveyed to her the beauty and elegance of mathematical
> proofs, a kind of conceptual beauty she strives for in her own work.
> 
> The exhibition includes quotes from the interviews, representations of
> artifacts from the history of programming, and illustrations of
> programming structures and processes in print and interactive format.
> 
> 
> Karen Hanmer
> karenh@enteract.com
> http://www.enteract.com/~karenh
> 

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Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey