Meditations on Code As Art
summary
Shows Tracy Emmen’s My Bed (sold for £2.54M) as proof that messy, autobiographical objects can be art and compares that to software artifacts like the Apollo AGC assembly labeled Burn Baby Burn (tied to 1960s radio and poetry), MIT Museum archives of Colossus, tiny chip graffiti on MIPS R10000 silicon, the 1979 Adventure Easter egg by Robert Warren Robinet, and throwaway comments like sorry mom that reveal authorship, care, and social context encoded directly in code.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction to code art
- 2:01Tracy Emin's My Bed
- 5:14AI slop and definitions
- 7:52Art and the human condition
- 10:44Feeling invisible in work
- 14:31An installation of code
- 16:01Apollo software context
- 21:05Code graffiti and humor
- 25:01Silicon chip art
- 28:31Easter eggs in gaming
- 30:36The demo scene culture
- 33:25Procedural art and aesthetics
- 35:37Code formatting as art
- 39:38Contextualizing code
- 42:32Obvious beauty in code
- 45:36Bowie on artistic purpose
- 48:12Can AI make art?
