Software art is a work of art where the creation of software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks. As an artistic discipline software art has attained growing attention since the late 1990s. It is closely related to Internet art since it often relies on the Internet, most notably the World Wide Web, for dissemination and critical discussion of the works. Art festivals such as FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Transmediale (Berlin), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz) and readme have devoted considerable attention to the medium and through this have helped to bring software art to a wider audience of theorists and academics.
Manfred Mohr is a German artist considered to be a pioneer in the field of digital art. He has lived and worked in New York since 1981.
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica.
David Rokeby is a Canadian artist who has been making works of electronic, video and installation art since 1982. He lives with his wife, acclaimed pianist Eve Egoyan, in Toronto, Canada.
Roy Ascott FRSA is a British artist, who works with cybernetics and telematics on an art he calls technoetics by focusing on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. Since the 1960s, Ascott has been a practitioner of interactive computer art, electronic art, cybernetic art and telematic art.
Eyebeam is a not-for-profit art and technology center in New York City, founded by John Seward Johnson III with co-founders David S. Johnson and Roderic R. Richardson.
Michael Joaquin Grey is an American artist, inventor, and educator based in New York City.
Mark Stephen Meadows (born September 28, 1968) is an American author, inventor, artist and researcher at NASA Convergent Aeronautics Solutions.
Félix Juan Alberto Beltrán Concepción was a Cuban artist and one of the most important Latin American designers. He had a career as a graphic designer, painter, draftsman, and engraver.
Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer, film director, multimedia author, sound designer, founder of record label GRRR. Specialist of the relations between sound and pictures, he has been an early synthesizer user and with Un Drame Musical Instantané, an initiator of the return of silent movies with live orchestra in 1976. His records show the use of samplers since 1980 and computers since 1985.
Zachary Lieberman is an American new media artist, designer, computer programmer, and educator.
Yugo Nakamura is a Japanese web designer.
Benjamin Fry is an American designer who has expertise in data visualization.
Aaron Koblin is an American digital media artist and entrepreneur best known for his use of data visualization and his work in crowdsourcing, virtual reality, and interactive film. He is co-founder and president of virtual reality company Within, founded with Chris Milk. The company created the popular virtual reality fitness app Supernatural, which was acquired by Meta in 2023. Formerly he created and lead the Data Arts Team at Google in San Francisco, California from 2008 to 2015.
Lia is an Austrian software artist. Born in Graz, she is now based in Vienna. Her work includes the early Net Art sites re-move.org and turux.at. In 2003 she co-curated the Abstraction Now exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Wien in Vienna, Austria. In 2003 Lia received an Award of Distinction in the Net Vision/Net Excellence Category for re-move.org.
R. Michael Hendrix is an American graphic designer and entrepreneur.
Post-Internet is a 21st-century art movement involving works that are derived from the Internet or its effects on aesthetics, culture and society.
Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in the city of Linz. Ars Electronica's activities focus on the interlinkages between art, technology and society. It runs an annual festival, and manages a multidisciplinary media arts R&D facility known as the Futurelab. It also confers the Prix Ars Electronica awards.
Monika Fleischmann is a German research artist, digital media scientist, and curator of new media art working in art, science, and technology. Since the mid-1980s she has been working collaboratively with the architect Wolfgang Strauss. As part of their research in New Media Art, Architecture, Interface Design and Art Theory, they focus on the concept of Mixed Reality, which connects the physical with the virtual world.
Kim Albrecht is a German data artist, media artist, information designer, and scholar known for his critical and investigative data visualizations. He is a professor at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, principle of metaLAB (at) Harvard, and co-founder of metaLAB (at) Berlin. Albrecht earned his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam and is a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His project "Artificial Worldviews" was featured on the cover of the science magazine Nature's 10 in December 2023.
