Software and Fun Symposium

Art and humour in software

27 nov 2010

Contrary to the belief that software is a very serious issue, a battlefield of big business interest and freedom fighters, and a field guided by rationality and formalisation, it is actually an area of practice and thinking that often advances through random acts, absurd use, jokes and curiosity.

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Baltan Laboratories - bron

With:
Matthew Fuller, Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Simon Yuill, Michael Murtaugh

International speakers will argue that art, and in particular software art, can play a crucial role in the production of the world, undermining the seeming solidity of the infrastructural backbone of our society and opening it up for intervention and reinvention. The symposium will also explore the issue of fun and the potential of the humour in software art. What is humour after all? Is it in fact an artistic and critical attitude to reality?

Location: Baltan Laboratories
Torenallee 45, SWA Building, 8th floor
5617 BA Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Tickets

Tickets for the symposium (25 Euro) can be purchased via the STRP festival website.