http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2007/12/07/critical-code-studies-vs-software-studies/ a resource for reading code Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:44:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2007/12/07/critical-code-studies-vs-software-studies/#comment-7 Patrick Burgaud Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:20:49 +0000 http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2007/12/07/critical-code-studies-vs-software-studies/#comment-7 Emphasis is important indeed. I think that emphasizing code or computation is not only a question of limited time. Choosing for programable poetry was/is for me as a practitionner nothing more than going to a new kind of perception, if I may say "text free", going on with some main principles of visual, sound, action poetries,as poetical expressions AGAINST printed poetry. I would say, but I am not sure if I'm right, especially of the consequences of this idea, that epoetry focuses on computation despite the code. I think that executability is essential, as the basic condition of epoetry. Studying code leads to a better comprehension of what programable art deeply is, can be, and/or would be. One the critical studies (in general) functions is to make clearer to everybody, audience and pratictionners, what is essential in one case and what not. Reading the code can be important in both situations, but with other outcomes. Emphasis is important indeed. I think that emphasizing code or computation is not only a question of limited time. Choosing for programable poetry was/is for me as a practitionner nothing more than going to a new kind of perception, if I may say “text free”, going on with some main principles of visual, sound, action poetries,as poetical expressions AGAINST printed poetry. I would say, but I am not sure if I’m right, especially of the consequences of this idea, that epoetry focuses on computation despite the code. I think that executability is essential, as the basic condition of epoetry. Studying code leads to a better comprehension of what programable art deeply is, can be, and/or would be. One the critical studies (in general) functions is to make clearer to everybody, audience and pratictionners, what is essential in one case and what not. Reading the code can be important in both situations, but with other outcomes.

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