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Definition of a Hacker Artist

Hacker Artists are artists who are hackers. They also create art using technology as their artistic medium.

In the article "HACKING SEDUCTIONS AS ART" by Cornelia Sollfrank[1], another description is offered by Jenny Marketou, "hacker artists operate as culture hackers who manipulate existing techno-semiotic structures towards a different end, to get inside cultural systems on the net and make them do things they were never intended to do."

First usage of the term Hacker Artist

The term "hacker artist" was officially introduced on December 4, 1995 on Art.Net, when hacker artists were invited to join the artist community there.

The first use of the term "hacker artist" is not actually known but is thought to have been first used by the artist Lile Elam, webmaster of Art.Net and self proclaimed "hacker artist".

Examples of Hacker Artists

There are many examples of hacker artists residing on Art.Net and can be found in the hacker studios section. Some hacker artists work creating art by writing computer code. Others actually create art by delveloping software and hardware. And finally, some hacker artists create art by just using pre-written software tools (such as photoshop or gimp(GNU Image Manipulation Program)).

One of the more notable software & hardware hacker artists is mkl who creates 3D light art using his Cubatron and the Big Round Cubatron. This art is considered hacker art for two reasons... the first is that mkl is a hacker and the second that the art piece is made using computer technology (designing circuit boards and programming chips to manipulate the lights).

Don Hopkins is another notable software hacker artist and is known for his art called Cellular Automata. This art is created by running a program that generates objects which randomly bump into each other which in return creates more objects and designs.

Per Hopkins, "Cellular automata are simple rules that are applied to a grid of cells, or the pixel values of an image. The same rule is applied to every cell, to determine its next state, based on the previous state of that cell and its neighboring cells.

There are many interesting cellular automata rules, and they all look very different, with amazing animated dynamic effects. "Life" is a widely known cellular automata rule, but many other lesser known rules are much more interesting! "

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in TechSquare was once known for being the birthplace of many hacker artists' projects.

External Published Articles Referencing "Hacker Art" and "Hacker Artists"

Hacker Artist Projects

Known Hacker Artists

Article Footnotes

(This is an initial draft of this article and more is to come. --lile 17:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC) )

--This article just got tagged for lack of notability. This is just the beginning of the article so I do hope that we will be given time to complete it before it gets bashed and deleted. Please see the talk page for more info and discussion on why "hacker artists" has nobility. thanks! --lile 19:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

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