Using GPS (Global Positioning System) has become an integrated and ubiquitous part of everyday life in today’s networked world. There are stories of people who trust the system too much and get lost or hurt and of its use for surveillance.
More than 60 years ago, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) took control of the newly born world of digital media and basically forced artists to use formats like .jpeg, .png and .tiff when creating images.
Scream, a piece of software art for the Windows desktop, programmed by Amy Alexander to react to the frustration and anger users feel when their computer malfunctions or while working with certain programs.
On the afternoon of 9/11 the FBI had the Ethernet packet-sniffing system known as “Carnivore,” installed with a number of major Internet Service Providers and networks such as America Online and Hotmail...
Why should text-editing tools only facilitate orderly office work and not existential challenges? Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word is an application—and a piece of software art—written by Olga Goriunova that gives you (the user) the opportunity to create your own suicide note...
X-Devian is centered on the fictive operating system X-Devian, which is in fact the conceptual repackaging of Ubuntu’s latest desktop version (based on Debian GNU/Linux).
Auto-Illustrator is a software tool developed by the British programmer and artist Adrian Ward and his company Signwave, for both art circulation and the market.