The Software Arts (Software Studies)

Warren Sack

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2019-04-09
  • 售價: $1,500
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,470
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 400
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262039702
  • ISBN-13: 9780262039703
  • 相關分類: 軟體工程
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商品描述

An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution.

In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software's evolution. Tracing the origins of software to eighteenth-century French encyclopedists' step-by-step descriptions of how things were made in the workshops of artists and artisans, Sack shows that programming languages are the offspring of an effort to describe the mechanical arts in the language of the liberal arts.

Sack offers a reading of the texts of computing―code, algorithms, and technical papers―that emphasizes continuity between prose and programs. He translates concepts and categories from the liberal and mechanical arts―including logic, rhetoric, grammar, learning, algorithm, language, and simulation―into terms of computer science and then considers their further translation into popular culture, where they circulate as forms of digital life. He considers, among other topics, the “arithmetization” of knowledge that presaged digitization; today's multitude of logics; the history of demonstration, from deduction to newer forms of persuasion; and the post-Chomsky absence of meaning in grammar. With The Software Arts, Sack invites artists and humanists to see how their ideas are at the root of software and invites computer scientists to envision themselves as artists and humanists.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《軟體藝術》是一本將自由藝術置於軟體演進核心的替代性軟體歷史。作者沃倫·薩克(Warren Sack)追溯軟體的起源至18世紀法國百科全書編纂者對藝術家和工匠工作坊製作過程的逐步描述,指出程式語言是將機械藝術以自由藝術的語言描述的產物。

薩克對計算的文本(代碼、演算法和技術論文)進行了閱讀,強調了散文和程式之間的連續性。他將自由藝術和機械藝術的概念和類別(包括邏輯、修辭、語法、學習、演算法、語言和模擬)翻譯成計算機科學的術語,然後考慮了它們在流行文化中的進一步轉化,以作為數位生活形式流通。他討論了知識的「數字化」,預示著數位化;當今眾多的邏輯;從推理到新形式的證明的歷史;以及語法中後康姆斯基時代的意義缺失。通過《軟體藝術》,薩克邀請藝術家和人文學者看到他們的想法是軟體的根源,並邀請計算機科學家將自己想像成藝術家和人文學者。

作者簡介

Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work has been exhibited at SFMoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the ZKM Center for Art and Media. He is Chair and Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Warren Sack是一位媒體理論家、軟體設計師和藝術家,他的作品曾在舊金山現代藝術博物館、惠特尼美國藝術博物館、沃克藝術中心和ZKM藝術與媒體中心展出。他現任加州大學聖塔克魯茲分校的電影和數位媒體系主任和教授。