Presented at Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China on 4 Jul 2016. This is part of the International Art Conference, see more: http://www.opengroundblog.com/home/2016/6/27/-

1. Executing queries as a form of artistic practice
Winnie Soon, Aarhus University @ Overwhelming Imagination, Beijing (China)

2. Query
[a] query language is a well-defined linguistic tool, the expressions of which
correspond to requests one might want to make a data base. With each request,
or query, there is associated a response, or answer.
(Chandra and Harel 1980, p. 156)

3. Web API as a form of query

4. Src: http://www.wamda.com/2015/03/souq-com-opens-api-public-spur-mena-ecommerce

5. Web API as a form of query

6. Web 2.0 “platform”
Web 2.0 “platform”
In order to become a platform, a software program needs to provide an interface
that allows for its (re)programming…[The web API] makes a website
programmable by offering structured access to its data and functionality and
turns it into a platform that others can build on.
(Helmond, 2015, p. 35)

7. Bit.Fall (2002-2006)
by Julius Popp
Net.Art Generator (1997)
by Cornelia Sollfrank
Murmur Study (2012)
by Christopher Baker

8. Two projects – By Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard
Jsut code (2010-2012)
If I wrote you a love letter would you write back?
(and thousand of other questions) (2012-2016)

10. Jsut code (2010-2012)
Image by www.WeAreTAPE.com

11. Jsut code (2010-2012)
Image by www.WeAreTAPE.com

12. Jsut code (2010-2012)

13. If I wrote you a love letter would you write back?
(and thousands of other questions)

15. Postdigital Aesthetics:
is a contribution to questions raised by our
newly computational everyday lives and the
aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital
nature of this age, but also critical
perspectives of a post-internet world.

16. http://www.250miles.net/techno-mourning/

17. Thank you
Winnie Soon
Artist-researcher @ Aarhus University
http://www.siusoon.net
rwx@siusoon.net