Variability machines at Glasgow Software Art symposium

Richard Rinehart, co-author with Still Water’s Jon Ippolito of the forthcoming MIT book New Media and Social Memory, presents conclusions from the book at the POCOS/HATII symposium on Software Art in Glasgow on 11 October. Rinehart’s presentation is called “Artworks as Variability Machines.” If software can run on any universal Turing machine, Rinehart asks, than …