31:T7bb,md` ### 1. READ: In the article the author discuss the difference between generative art and software art. The author point out different traits of two arts. The generative art is interested in generative process, as they generate "unpredictable" events. However, software art makes visible the aesthetic and political subtexts of seemingly neutral technical commands. In the past, I never thought of the differences between the two and thinking them as similar things. The reading explained to me how generative art does not necessarily need software and software art does not need to have significant meaning in its generative process. I think overall this really make me think a lot deeper concerning my past works. I was not sure how should I judge some of my old programming work. How should I imprive them and what they lack or why they are strong/weak. Now I understand some different traits of software art and generative arts, I can view my work more critically. For example, if my generative poem's generative result fascinating? or is the process is an art itself that conveys messages? Is it important to keep my code efficient in a particular work or is the clumsiness also part of the work? I basically become more confident in what I want to do with my work because of understanding the possible destination. The other thing that stunned me is the idea that the words in software world are not only speeches but also commands. I never compare it this way to real world speeches. This really made me think a lot in terms of how the virtual world may not be applied with the real world laws and norms. This may be a bit off topic but I cannot stop thinking of the "Metaverse" world after the internet where different society may appears. The idea of how software are differnet from normal language in nature affects how the virtual world works already and of course in the future. These just some random thoguhts that I kept thinking after the reading.

`32:T6d7,md` ### 2. RESEARCH: #### [Viral Capital](http://lisek.art.pl/CAPITAL.html) by Robert B. Lisek

This is a project that explore topics concerning viruses, biology, identity and technology. A program was made by the artist to generate new class of non-human object with human DNA and virus DNA(Lloviu virus, Polio virus, Marburg virus and Ebola virus). The audience can see the process of their DNA being manipulated with virus DNA. The project shows how logical structures and computer processes remain in relation with biological and chemical processes.

[here](http://fundamental.art.pl/DNAvirus/DNAvirus.html) is a demonstration of how it looks like when the program runs, combining artist's DNA(capital letters) with virus DNA(lowercase letters) using custom funtions. As far as I understand, there are possibilities of synthesising biologcal objects holding the new manipulated DNA with more advanced technology but the artist didn't do it.

This project also raises social questions like, how is data used for identifying individuals? how can this data be manipulated? how biological process can be monitored? The project points to new practical possibilities such as how the data can be transformed in order to code, blur or avoid identification.

`33:Tb13,md` ### 3. REALISE: As a Taiwanese, I have been always been curious about the politics between Taiwan and China. Recently due to Russia's invasion to Ukraine. I have been worried about Taiwan. Whether China is going to invade Taiwan like Russian did to Ukraine and whether the US is going to sit and watch like how they are dealing with Ukraine instead of sending military support have all become hot topics. I have read a lot of articles and did some research. I found that actually China is sending more and more military aircraft to cross Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) to provoke Taiwan since recent years. However, a lot of Taiwanese are still being very optimistic, thinking that the US will protect us so China will not invade. For me, this seems dangerous and urgent but many people don't see it, especially when the aircraft numbers sent to voilate Taiwan's ADIZ has been incressing to around 5 everyday. I have an idea of trying to show the intense situation by creating a twitter bot/instagram bot/ or even weibo bot that post the invasion number of the aircraft everyday in a certain time. I want to scrape the data from [ROC Mistry of National Defence](https://www.mnd.gov.tw/English/PublishTable.aspx?types=Military%20News%20Update&Title=News%20Channel) and convert the aircraft number into visual representations(possibly red dot). When showing the number of aircrafts invading Taiwan's ADIZ everyday in a form of calunder, I hope the people online can feel the intensity of the situation. We may see more than 120 red dots on the calunder at the end of the every month. The project is ongoing and not yet finished. Currently I have been able to get the realtime data I want. I also built a simple calunder for how the data may be presented. The red dots replresenting the number of aircraft invasion in the day, and the X sign is a sign that indicating the Chinese's military may decided to really start the war on the day. The X sign date is not real. I perposely set the X to intensify the mood. I haven't be able to link the data to the calumder in realtime yet. I use node.js with puppeteer for scrapting data and RiTwit to tweet.

**Here is a screen shot of some data I got back**

**Here is a map showing the path of the aircraft that I am thinking the possibility of transfering to graphic to post**