History of code - mondrian _ randomness _ conceptual art _ abstract art _ Modern art _ Sol leWit _ dali sculptures _ Warhol _ duchamp _ computer games and adopted by younger generations, taken out of labs, cad software, robot art, randomness and general history of code (galanter)

Current concepts in code - Abject data _ archive _ database _ interface _ new media _ social aspects, 'ecology of code' _ visualising data/mapping _ focus on computation rather than interactivity _ data subjectivity (new way to analyse new media)

Books - digital art _ language of new media _ the anti sublime ideal in art _ code language of our time _ fibrecuture essay _ more online essays on blog _ olsen (2006)??

'Dumpster' Golan Levin

data in an unusual form _ narrative _ portraiture _ informative _ interactive _ exploratory feel to work _ interface _ social data

previous work - telesymphony, audiovisual entertainment suite, remark - image and sound, interactivity

'Spam plants' Alex Dragelescu

organic _ physicality _ sculpture _ 3d looking _ randomness _ abstract _ meaning arises from the relationship between the spam emails and the final outcome 'abject data'

previous work -

spam architecture _ blog bot (links to dumpster) _ animation _ top grossing movie of all time 1x1