Executing Practices This collection brings together artists, curators, programmers, theorists and heavy internet browsers whose practices make critical intervention into the broad concept of execution.

Some of the ideas and thoughts were very interesting and I found other not to be. Different views on what happens when we execute code or a program and all the different ways the code can and has been used in practise and in art. Some of favourite arts of the paper were Radiokomputer that broadcast different programs over radio and what happened as a result of that. Also In Diff in June (2013), artist Martin Howse published his day in the life of his computer. Over a 1000 page book about all the commands processed by the computer in a day. Unsual look at the meaning of the word executuion. A multiplicity of relations are highlighted in such executions, which, as well as including hardware and software, are also dependent on laws, cables, the electromagnetic spectrum, minerals, histories, gender relations, economies and so on.

It seemed to connect with Lucy Suchman’s Plans and Situated Actions. Where she was highlighting the fact that we have embedded details within our thought processes but that we hide or suppress those details in order not to be overloaded. It seems the same on computer whereby the system hides the machine code day to day line executions from us and we get left with only the “top level” information. Quite interesting.