Until the 30th of May and since the 26th of March, the exhibition chmod +x art curated by Marloes, as part of the Dutch temporary fork of the make art festival, is shown at the Kerava Art Museum in Finland.
The computer as theater, as writer of love letters, the computer as world, a place for revolution, art as executable. chmod +x art presents artists that turn our ideas, dreams and fantasies about machines and code up side down and show programming as an infinitely intriguing way of creating. Code is a medium. Whether it is used to formulate instructions for a machine, ideas for people or both. The writing of it influences and shapes the creative process of the artist. For that reason, ghost programmers may be left at home. Besides the importance of writing code yourself, it is essential to show that code. Without source, software art remains a magic trick. Do It Yourself and show us your sh*t!
With works from Pall Thayer, Wayne Clements, Graham Harwood and Martin Howse.
The exhibition was inaugurated during Pixelache as part of the GOTO10 programme of the festival. You can read more about the works and their authors in English on Pixelache’s website, or in Finnish on Kerava’s. :)
