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[[Image:Software-catalogue.jpg|thumb|250px|''Software'' catalogue, 1970, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5886 Log], [[Media:Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf|PDF]].]]
'''Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art''' was an exhibition curated by artist and critic [[Jack Burnham]] and held at the Jewish Museum in Brooklyn, [[New York City]], from 16 September - 8 November [[1970]], and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., from 16 December 1970 until 14 February 1971. The show put together computers and conceptual artists, linking them through the idea of software as a process or a program to be carried out by a machine or by the audience based on "instruction lines" formulated by the artist.

Participating artists: [[Vito Acconci]], David Antin, Architecture Group Machine M.I.T., John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Linda Berris, Donald Burgy, Paul Conly, Agnes Denes, Robert Duncan Enzmann, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, John Godyear, [[Hans Haacke]], [[Douglas Huebler]], Joseph Kosuth, [[Nam June Paik]], Alex Razdow, Sonia Sheridan, Evander D. Schley, Theodosius Victoria, [[Lawrence Weiner]]. 

==Catalogue==
* ''[[Media:Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf|Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art]]'', New York: Jewish Museum, 1970, 71 pp.

==Literature==
* Jack Burnham, "Comments on Mallary's Note", ''Leonardo'' 3:2, Apr 1970, pp 265-266. A response to Robert Mallory's review of the ''Software'' show, in the same issue.
* Robert Mallory, "Notes on Jack Burnham's Concepts of a Software Exhibition", ''Leonardo'' 3:2, 1970, pp 189-190.
* Grace Glueck, [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/26/archives/jewish-museums-software-confusing.html "Jewish Museum's ‘Software’ Confusing"], ''New York Times'', 26 Sep 1970. Review.
* Bitite Vinklers, "Art and Information: 'Software' at the Jewish Museum", ''Arts Magazine'' 45:1, Sep 1970, p 46.
* Dore Ashton, "Software Everywhere: Jewish Museum, NY, exhibition", ''Studio International'' 180, Nov 1970, pp 200-202.
* Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_Duchamps_Bride_Stripped_Bare_The_Meaning_of_the_Large_Glass.pdf|"Duchamp's Bride Stripped Bare: The Meaning of the Large Glass"]], ''Arts Magazine'', Mar-May 1972. ''Large Glass'' (1915-22) served as an architectural model for the installation of the ''Software'' exhibition.
* Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1980_Art_and_Technology_The_Panacea_That_Failed.pdf|"Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed"]], in ''The Myths of Information'', ed. Kathleen Woodward, Coda Press, 1980.
* Edward A. Shanken, [http://www.artexetra.com/House.pdf "The House That Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of Software as a Metaphor for Art"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 6:10, Nov 1998; repr. in  ''Reframing Consciousness: Art, Mind and Technology'', ed. Roy Ascott, Exeter, UK: Intellect Books, 1999. 
* Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort, [[Media:From_Software_exhibition_1970.pdf|"From ''Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art''"]], in ''The New Media Reader'', 2003.
* Lutz Dammbeck, a synopsis of the "Software" show, the planning behind it and the works it contained, 2003. [http://www.t-h-e-n-e-t.com/html/_film/them/_them_software.htm] {{de}}
* Vincent Bonin, [http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=541 commentary about the exhibition and catalogue], Daniel Langlois Foundation, 2004. [http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/f/page.php?NumPage=541 (Also in French)].
* Edward A. Shanken, [https://artexetra.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/shanken-in-forming-software-icono-2014-rev.pdf "In Forming Software: ''Software'', Structuralism, Demythification,"] ''Icono'' 12:2, 2014, pp 9-28.

==Links==
* [http://dada.compart-bremen.de/node/3691 ''Software'' show] in CompArt database


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