CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Software Art, False Consciousness

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6 Dec 2017
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The function of software art, as manovich argues, parallels marxist ideology critique. The veil of ideology is torn asunder by grasping the relations between the action of individual actors and the system as a whole. Software enables this critique by representing it at a scale- in a microworld- that we can make sense of. It is truly remarkable that software- designed to obfuscate the machine and create a virtual one and based on buried commands- has lead to the overwhelming notion of computation as transparent. This notion of transparency has less to do with actual technological operations than the microworld established by computation. In a formal sense computers understood as comprising software and hardware are ideology machines. They ful ll almost every formal de nition of ideology we have, from ideology as false consciousness to louis althussers de nition of ideology as a representation of the imaginary relations of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

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