Myriad People

New media art builds on top of rich software stacks. Blending multiple media such as code, light or sound, new media artists integrate various types of software to draw, animate, control or synchronize different parts of an artwork. Yet, the artworks rarely credit software and all the developers involved. We present Myriad People, an original dataset of open source projects and their contributors, which span various software layers used in new media art installations. To collect this dataset, we released an open call for artists and eventually curated 9 artworks, which use a variety of software and media. In October 2024, we organized a collective exhibition in Stockholm, entitled myriad, which showcased the 9 artworks, as well as loam, a sculpture built as the conceptual center of the exhibition, tying all the other pieces together. The Myriad People dataset includes the 124 open source projects used in one or more of the myriad artworks, as well as all the contributors to these projects.新媒体艺术（new media art）植根于丰富的软件栈（software stack）之上。新媒体艺术家融合代码、灯光、声音等多元媒介，整合各类软件以完成艺术作品的绘制、动画生成、操控或各模块同步。然而，此类艺术作品极少对其所使用的软件及相关开发者予以署名致谢。 我们推出《Myriad People》这一原创数据集，其收录了新媒体艺术装置（new media art installations）中所用到的各类软件层级（software layers）相关的开源项目（open source projects）及其贡献者。 为采集该数据集，我们面向艺术家发起公开征集，最终甄选了9件使用多元软件与媒介的艺术作品。2024年10月，我们于斯德哥尔摩举办了主题为「myriad」的群展，展出了上述9件艺术作品，以及作为展览概念核心的雕塑作品「loam」，该作品将所有参展作品串联为一个整体。《Myriad People》数据集涵盖了这9件「myriad」展览艺术作品中一件或多件所使用的124个开源项目，以及这些项目的全部贡献者。