The Art of Fixing Code | Book Launch »Fix My Code«, Cornelia Sollfrank, Winnie Soon & Annet Dekker

The Art of... | Book Launch


[13.04.2021]


Cornelia Sollfrank and Winnie Soon present the open access
publication »Fix My Code« and show how the »net.art generator« as
a conceptual tool has not only produced new art, but a further
discourse.


Two artist-researchers from different generations, with different
cultural backgrounds and different expertise engage in a dialogue
about code as material, affective and other infrastructures, the
necessity of collaboration, the productive side of
dysfunctionality and the gender aspects of technopolitics. The
occasion for their dialogue is a project they have been working
on together for many years and which has also been part of the
ZKM collection since 2009: net.art generator (»nag«).


The net.art generator (since 1998) is a computer program that
interactively collects material from the internet and generates
new images from it. The work – meanwhile a classic of net art –
uses an interface (API) to google search. Due to changes in the
terms of use and the resulting restrictions on search queries,
the program suddenly stopped working in 2015.


What followed was an intense exploration of the breaking points
of code and net culture, documented in the new open access
publication »Fix My Code«.