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Critical Software Thing

Critical software thing is a collective of artists/practitioners/researchers interested in thinking 'thing' from the perspective of Software Studies. The group of PhDs and post-docs emerged from Transmediale art events held in Hong Kong (2014) and Berlin (2015), and began as a series of discussions and shared set of interests around the notion of “execution” and a question of what exactly execution is and where something like a computer program might be understood to execute. We meet regularly, both online and offline, for example during the Click Festival (2015), having readings groups, discussing works in progress, editing collaboratively and organising workshops and symposia related to the main theme. This event (*.exe ver0.1) is the first in a series of events/activities which focus on execution as explored through practice and theory. It will be followed by an event (*.exe ver0.2) held in Malmö in April 2016. The group is working on a book project going under the provisional title of Executing Practices/Executing Things (as part of the Data Browser series).

For more details on members and their contributions please see http://softwarestudies.projects.cavi.au.dk/index.php/CriticalSoftwareThing


These are the events that are in our roadmap:

  • Workshop in Click Festival, Denmark on 16 May 2015
  • *.exe (ver0.1): PhD Masterclass, open workshops and open seminars in Aarhus University, Denmark on 3-4 Dec 2015. Organized by Critical Software Thing / Aarhus Team: Winnie, Audrey, Lea, Thomas and Fran
  • *.exe (ver0.2)): Open workshops and open seminars in Malmö University, Sweden on Apr 2016
  • *.exe (ver0.3): Tentatively on Jul, 2016
  • *.exe (ver0.4): Tentatively on Jan, 2017


The members of Critical Software Thing are:

Academics/Artists/Practitioners/Researchers
Name Affiliation Based Abstract idea
Audrey Samson City University of Hong Kong Montreal, Québec The execution in transmission
Eric Snodgrass Malmö University, Sweden Sweden the site of execution
Helen Pritchard Goldsmiths, University of London/ Queen Mary, University of London, UK UK Toxic Execution
Fran Gallardo Queen Mary, University of London, UK London, UK The Tongue as a radical site for execution
Lea Muldtofte Olsen Aarhus University, DK Denmark execution as enunciation
Linda Hilfling Malmö University, Sweden Berlin, Germany executed critique
Magda Tyzlik-Carver Aarhus University, Denmark UK Executing their role: participation as algorithmically defined requirement or the human contagion
Thomas Bjørnsten Aarhus University, Denmark Aarhus, Denmark 1980s datasette game-execution
Winnie Soon Aarhus University, Denmark HK/DK Draft: Live Execution: The temporality of buffering in distributed networks, Draft 2: At the time of execution:throbber.start()


Critical Software Thing also collaborates and works with other researchers and practitioners:

Academics/Artists/Practitioners/Researchers
Name Affiliation Based
Christian Ulrik Andersen Aarhus University, DK Aarhus, Denmark
Geoff Cox Aarhus University, DK Aarhus, Denmark
James Charlton Transart Institute and Plymouth University Auckland, New Zealand
Gottfried Haider Institute of Network Cultures Netherlands
Søren Pold Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
Cornelia Sollfrank artwarez Berlin, Germany
David Gauthier Universiteit van Amsterdam Netherlands
Brian House Brown University USA
Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard Aarhus University Denmark
Kyle McDonald Brooklyn, NY US
Molly Schwartz Malmö University Sweden

Meeting Agenda (record)

see all the past records here

notes on Assigned Reading

Suggested Reading