Executing Queries as a form of artistic practice

Executing queries as a form of artistic practice

Winnie Soon, Aarhus University @ Overwhelming Imagination, Beijing (China)

Query [a] query language is a well-defined linguistic tool, the expressions of which correspond to requests one might want to make a data base. With each request, or query, there is associated a response, or answer.

(Chandra and Harel 1980, p. 156)

Web API as a form of query

Src: http://www.wamda.com/2015/03/souq-com-opens-api-public-spur-mena-ecommerce

Web API as a form of query

Web 2.0 “platform”

Web 2.0 “platform” In order to become a platform, a software program needs to provide an interface that allows for its (re)programming…[The web API] makes a website programmable by offering structured access to its data and functionality and turns it into a platform that others can build on.

(Helmond, 2015, p. 35)

Bit.Fall (2002-2006) by Julius Popp

Net.Art Generator (1997) by Cornelia Sollfrank

Murmur Study (2012) by Christopher Baker

Two projects – By Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard

Jsut code (2010-2012)

If I wrote you a love letter would you write back? (and thousand of other questions) (2012-2016)

Jsut code (2010-2012) Image by www.WeAreTAPE.com

Jsut code (2010-2012)

Image by www.WeAreTAPE.com

Jsut code (2010-2012)

If I wrote you a love letter would you write back? (and thousands of other questions)

Postdigital Aesthetics: is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.

http://www.250miles.net/techno-mourning/

Thank you

Winnie Soon Artist-researcher @ Aarhus University

http://www.siusoon.net rwx@siusoon.net