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The House That Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of "Software" as a Metaphor for Art
Edward A. Shanken
Abstract:
This paper identifies and analyzes the convergence of computers, experimental art practice, and structuralist theory in Jack Burnham's Software exhibition at the Jewish Museum. In contrast to the numerous art and technology exhibitions which took place between 1966-1972, and which focused on the aesthetic applications of technological apparatus, Software was predicated on theÝidea of "software" as a metaphor for art. Under this rubric, the curator explored his notion of the mythic structure of art, and its convergence with information technology, and the increasing conceptualism of art in the late 1960s. I suggest that these components represent the interlocked emergence of postmodernity at this critical art historical moment.
project homepage: http://www.duke.edu/~giftwrap/House.html
keywords: conceptual-criticism
category: text - software art related/history of software art
uploaded by o, 06 Mar 2003
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