CODE

Art, anthropology, agency, code.

"What counts as art changes in different contexts" -Alfred Gell

Giant Campbell's Soup Can ------is this art---yes or no?

"To decide something is art, then analyze it as an art object is to forget how it became an art object."


Think of an art object as a person..... and apply anthropological theory to it.

Agency: it makes a difference between something that just controls something else
--the capacity to act
ex: hooters girls


Code can have a lot of agency!
ex: cell phone, elevators, voting booths, computers

How does code distribute agency?
-a virus slows down a computer
-a browser pops up windows all over the screen

Code is free speech!


Miranda July
http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

Sound Mirror
http://www.soundmirrors.org/


Ray Kurzweil
(I attended this)
--Sesquicentennial speaker at Illinois State's Braden Auditorium
http://www.ilstu.edu/home/anniversary/kurzweil.shtml