Open Software and Art: A Tutorial

Workshop Organizers: Letizia Jaccheri, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norway

The tutorial is devoted mainly to PhD students, researchers, educators, and artists who are interested to learn, practice, and reflect about software tools for creativity and art. In this work, we chose to focus on open source software and its intersection with art. This choice is motivated by significant related work in open source software and art and available software for art like Processing, Arduino, and Scratch. Four research questions will shape the discussion: 1) Development or use of software? 2) Who are the stakeholders? 3) How to evaluate art and technology works? 4) Are there feelings beyond creativity and amusement one should aim at when designing art and technology expressions?

Tutorial Schedule:

8:30 Introduction
9:00 what is computer art?

10.00 Break 

10:30 what is open source software?
11:00 what is open software and art?

12:00 Lunch

14:00 hands-on part 1

15:30 Break 

16:00 hands-on part 2
17:15 end