It is obvious thattherefore a lot of digital art, new media art and Internet art can also be called software art.Digital art and thus new media art may require the artist to use public softwareapplications, to master programming skills or to collaborate with a programmer who canspeak the digital language as to create a new software application

HowardBecker's art worlds

On the NorthAmerican continent particular institutions under scrutiny are the Dia Center for the Arts,The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modem Art, The San FranciscoMuseum of Modem Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Walker ArtCenter. On the European continent, institutions such as Centre Pompidou (Paris),MuHKA 3 (Antwerp), SMAK4 (Gent) and Tate Modern (London)

Contemporary art museums have, as museums havealways had, the power to define what art is to the public at large: for this public,contemporary art is what one can find in the galleries and rooms of the contemporary artmuseum. This statement is hardly new: the idea that "museums are where the greatmajority of people in the West encounter art" has been used widely and most recently asthe premise of the 2006 publication Art and its Publics. Museum Studies at theMillennium, a collection of essays edited by Prof. Andrew McClellan. "Since theirinception two centuries ago, museums have been vested with ever greater responsibilityto define what qualifies as art. Art is what is shown in museums."'