Above is the finished, edited demonstration video produced for the Funware exhibition in MU Eindhoven. Due to the fact that this was a screen recording and I did not adjust my resolution whilst recording it I ended up having to use some funny codecs which exported at 1280×800 and at decent quality. Rendering took approximately [...]
Categories: Event,Projects,Software,Video
Tagged: auto-illustrator, demonstration, documentation, exhibition, funware, Software, software-art
As I’ve mentioned previously my Major Project for a Masters in Interactive Media is a critical software piece called Wabbitware. Today I reached the point where I am ready to release it to the wild. There is now a website dedicated to the project distribution and also aggregation of modified versions of the software. Below [...]
Categories: code,Interactive Media,Projects,Software
Tagged: Interactive Media, major, Software, software-art, wabbitware
Below is the introductory text for my major project. It is a critical software project called Wabbitware and will be part of the We are All Transistors graduate Exposition at Goldsmiths. Wabbitware is derived from the term ‘wabbit’ which is used in hacker jargon to describe a certain class of software which self-replicates or which [...]
Categories: Interactive Media,Projects,Software
Tagged: self-replication, Software, wabbitware
I have come across the short film, Patent Absurdity, whilst researching my Major project. It is an insight into how the patent system in America has changed to encompass the legislation of what are essentially abstract natural concepts: algorithms in software. In the late 1990′s the total number of software patents increased to one quarter [...]
Tagged: Film, free software foundation, legislation, patents, Software