Queering Code

Description:

Queering Code is written in Bash, which is a command line interface and a scripting language developed in 1989 as a piece of free software for Unix Systems (Linux and Mac OS but it has been also ported to Windows). The bash script is a plain text file that contains a series of commands for computer execution. Queering Code is both a work of “software art” (software as artwork, not software to make an artwork) and a “codework” (where the source code and critical writing operate together) produced to embody "queer code” as a form of code poetry. The piece explores the material and linguistic tensions of writing, reading and printing computer code.

Queering Code 是用Bash程式語言編寫。由1989年開發的免費軟件，Bash是命令行界面和腳本語言用於Unix 系統（Linux 和 Mac OS，但現在也見於Windows系統）。Bash腳本是一個純文本文件並包含一系列用於電腦運算所執行的命令。 Queering Code以詩的形式展出，它既是“軟件藝術”（不是製作藝術品的軟件），又是為體現“Queer Code”而創作的“程式編碼作品”（既是程式編碼亦是批判性寫作）。 這件作品通過編寫、閱讀和印刷電腦程式代碼來探索其物質性及語言張力。

Info:

• Year of Production: 2022
• Medium: Silkscreen, Computer code
• Size: Silkscreen frame: 53x73x3cm ; Silkscreen print: 39x51cm
• Technical Production: Bash programming, Silkscreen Printing (+ Director font by Ange Degheest)
• Acknowledgements: Mara Karagianni from Psaroskala Zines & Thomas Diot from Ice Screen

Exhibition/Publication:

• 2022, Love+: Awakening, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Cite this work:

Soon, W. (2023). "Queering Code Manual".Them, all, Magazine, (1) . Retrieved from http://www.them-all-magazine.com/issues/issue_01/winniesoon.html