2c:null 2d:["$","title",null,{"children":"Assignment 6: Critical Practice | stevenzhou01 | Observable"}] 32:T9d6,The article mainly discussed the relationship between generative art and software art, their similarities, and their differences. Since I may be more familiar with generative art, I initially thought software art is a broader term to call the art with coding, but it is actually not like that. Firstly, the article mentioned software art focuses on what normally remains invisible: the code and its performativity, which suddenly made me realize that it’s why in the class we often discussed more about the algorithms instead of the visuals. Probably, it’s one of the most distinguishable attributes of software art compared to generative art, i.e. generative art will focus much more on visuals than software art. Secondly, generative art refers to the artwork done by a system of rules, which highlights the system and the process. Programming is one of the methods to create generative art but there is still much other generative art that doesn’t apply any code, such as some generative music, generative movies, and more. However, software art is totally another story, whose essential part is the code. It discusses the code itself, its performativity, what it can bring to us. Therefore, coding might be the overlapped part for generative art and software art, but both are very different. Additionally, from the examples given in the article, I can see when artists are making software art, the results or what they expected from the artwork is quite different from generative art. Although it’s a bit unfair to say generative art focuses on visuals and aesthetics since there is also a lot of generative art discussing social-related topics, software art seems to focus more on the Internet culture in society and its social influence. Therefore, probably because of this, artists will have more certain expectations on the result and the influence of software artworks, while the output of generative art tends to be more unpredictable since artists like to see more autonomy of the systems. Last, but not least, the performativity of the code is a very new term for me that I’ve never heard before, but it gave me a lot of inspiration about software art. For example, when you are thinking about a software art project, it will be helpful to think about the performativity of your code, such as what the code can bring, and what you expect the code to create. Also, it’s mostly discussed in the social context, which somewhat gives artists to evaluate the code from its social influence. 33:T7b5,- [Exhibition: Social Codes by Casey Reas](https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/social-codes-pcl)
Firstly, there is an exhibition curated by Casey Reas which presents a collection of software artworks that discuss code and interactivity. Participatory art is a genre of art engaging public participation in the creative process and letting them become co-authors, editors, and observers of the work. So this exhibition discusses how people engage with the art when it comes to coding. - [Maya Man / can I go where you go?](https://feralfile.com/artworks/can-i-go-where-you-go-zg5)
The artwork offers a unique way to think about performance and softare. The software and coding provide a new way for audience to take part in or influence the performance. The viewer can take charge of by drawing with it, or they can simply watch as the software performs itself.

- [Daniel Howe/ Radical of the Vertical Heart 忄](https://rednoise.org/daniel/radicaloftheverticalheart)
The work focuses on the Chinese characters and how it's related to the Chinese political issues. The program will render Chinese characters stroke by stroke, when it comes to the words which are banned by Chinese gov., it will jump from tradition to simplified Chinese.

P.S. Besides I did more research on it, the reason why I want to talk about it is there were many discussions about Chinese characters in Chinese history. For example, at the beginning of the 20th century, some scholars suggested using roman letters to totally replace with Chinese characters, since many people thought Chinese characters are one of the reasons which hindered the development of culture people's thinking in China. 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