Software Art - Selection of Artists and Works

Selection of Artists and Works

  • Scott Draves is best known for creating the Electric Sheep in 1999, the Bomb visual-musical instrument in 1995, and the Fractal flame algorithm in 1992.
  • Jaromil, author of various GNU/Linux applications, has published famous art pieces as this shell forkbomb featured across art venues and essays worldwide. He is also developing FreeJ, a vision mixer he is employing in theater and live performances.
  • Robert B. Lisek, creator of NEST - Citizens Intelligent Agency and GGGRU worm, datamining software for searching hidden patterns and links between people, groups, objects, events, places /based on LANL's and GRU's antiterrorist software
  • Bob Holmes an artist who creates websites that are signed, exhibited and sold in galleries and Museums as autonomous artworks.
  • Netochka Nezvanova is the author of nebula.m81, an experimental web browser awarded at Transmediale 2001 in the category "artistic software". She is also the creator of the highly influential nato.0+55+3d software suite for live video manipulation.
  • Jason Salavon is known for the creation of "amalgamations" that average dozens of images to create individual, ethereal "archetype" images.
  • Alexei Shulgin is well known for this 386DX performance group, but is also credited with early software art-inspired creations.
  • Adrian Ward has won several awards for his Signwave Auto-Illustrator, a generative art graphic design application, which parodies Adobe Photoshop.
  • Martin Wattenberg is one of the pioneers of data visualization art, creating works based on music, photographs, and even Wikipedia edits.
  • Corby & Baily were early experimenters in this field, producers of the reconnoitre web browser which won an honorary mention in the net art section of Ars Electronica in 1999.
  • LIA is one of the early pioneers of Software and Net Art. Her website re-move.org (1999-2003) received an Award of Distinction in the Net Vision/Net Excellence Category of Ars Electronica in 2003.

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