Creative Software is a project which explores the relationship between art and technology and investigates the history, context and approaches of artists who write their own software to produce creative outputs.

Creative software is a rich, but hitherto sidelined area of art practice. Yet few areas of artistic endeavour better demonstrate the merging of art and technology and the blurring of the roles of artist and software developer.

Cybersalon and the Digital Research Unit (DRU) are collaborating to realise the hidden potential of the area and founding a Creative Software Forum. This group will work proactively to source and engage with creative software showcases, curators, commissioners, established and emerging creative software artists/artist groups and their work to assemble event programmes that are diverse, accessible, exciting and contemporary. It will operate as a crucial research and advocacy group, ensuring that the strategic development of these events is informed by expertise in the field.

We aim to draw together a community of practitioners, artists, academics, students, theorists, curators and an interested general public to discuss, scope and explore the remit of this forum and to continue championing and advocating for this work.