From Software- Information Technology Its New Meaning for Art Hye Yeon Nam
1970 Exhibition Software, a pioneering exhibition about information technology and interactive art is organized.
Documentation of Projects Ned Woodman / Ted Nelson, Labyrinth First publicly-access hypertext, Catalog
Artist Nicholas Negroponte, Seek The Architecture Machine Group -It is a 3 dimensional space filled with half stacked toy blocks controlled by robot arm and gerbils which is live. -In the HCI perspective, There are controversial opinions which are positive / negative ones.
Artist Les Levine, System Burn-off X Residual Software, 1969 A.I.R Wire Tap, Earth image with chewing gum how media affects(controls) to society as well as art form - Bring tape which displays activity of studio to gallery in exhibition - 12 speakers which containing a phone conversation in the daily life -A bridge for understanding the place of conceptual artists in the exhibition
Before Software, Computer art had worked to duplicated the styles of past masters (Machines as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age,1968, MOMA) After Software, A vision of new media art is how it is viewed Neither a celebration of technology nor condemnation New media artists represents technology to express idea or art propositions