Publication details

The Gestures That Software Culture Is Made Of

Authors

HORÁKOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source MAP - Media / Archive / Performance
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://slub.qucosa.de/landing-page/?tx_dlf[id]=http%3A%2F%2Fslub.qucosa.de%2Fapi%2Fqucosa%253A15860%2Fmets
Field Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Keywords software; culture; gestures; Vilém Flusser
Description Vilém Flusser’s concepts of “computed / composed” media and their transformative power to change the consciousness of man, their model of the world, and thus their art and culture, has a lot in common with software studies, their preference of programmer’s hands-on point of view to user’s point of view, their re-union of theory and practice by embracing artistic practices into the software studies discourse and calling them a primary research of the discipline, their experimental searching for new methodologies of software culture research. The argument of the paper departs from Flusser’s characteristics of cultural production in the information societies as a “wakeful dreaming” and the aesthetics of software art and it aims to claim that Flusser’s General theory of gesture can be considered as another methodological approach to the study of cultural production within an environment of programmed media.
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