Read Me: Software Art & Cultures

by Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin

Software art is a practice that regards software as a cultural phenomenon that defines one of the principal domains of our existence today. Thus, software is not regarded as an invisible layer, but rather as a decisive level and a language working at reproduction of certain orders, whether aesthetic, cultural, social or political. Software art creatively questions and redefines software and its ways of functioning.

397 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2004

About the author

Olga Goriunova is a cultural theorist who works on digital media, computing, aesthetics and philosophy. She is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.