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According to our knowledge, this is the first attempt to answer these questions,
although there has been a proposal to extend the IS research onto the art domain
(Oates 2006a). There is no established knowledge base in this interdisciplinary field
and finding what research has been done previously appears not to be a trivial task.
We have initiated a literature review, the preliminary outcomes of which had confirmed
that both software engineers and artists might profit by further research in this
interdisciplinary field.
This paper has three main goals. Firstly, we aim at promoting interest and discussion
in the interdisciplinary field between art and software engineering. Secondly, we
present our understanding of how the two areas influence on each other and stress on
the potential benefits for software engineering - innovation and creativity (Glass and
DeMarco 2006). Last but not least, we discuss the process of making a survey of the
state-of-the-art, aiming at completeness of the literature review. We show the preliminary
outcomes of it which might be a starting point for other researchers and practitioners
in the area.
The following section (section 2) gives some more details on our project – SArt -
with its objectives and current involvements. In section 3 we discuss research methodology
issues. A subsection is dedicated to the procedure of making the literature
review in a systematic way. Section 4 shows the preliminary results of it. Section 5 is
dedicated to a discussion. Section 6 – conclusions – is followed by references.