The Screening Series Program has detailed notes and information about each artist and their films. What is striking about these works is how critical they are of conceptual art, and, at the same time they employ the same modes as conceptual art from New York (for example).
This paper focuses on kinetic abstraction as a painting expression appropriate to computing. It begins by describing the futuristic ambitions of early twentieth-century painters to create movement. The way in which the forms of computing fulfills those ambitions is substantiated by comparing the two kinds of art. The third section presents some of the artists who program paintings.
Chris Vitiello's blog article has something to say about cameraless film:
"Lots of people make cameraless films nowadays. It seems like most weekend festivals with workshop components seem to have a 3hour cameraless film class."
