MSR 2025
Mon 28 - Tue 29 April 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2025

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. In this work, 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. The Myriad People dataset includes the 124 open source projects used in one or more of the Myriad’s artworks, as well as all the contributors to these projects. In this paper, we present the dataset, as well as the possible usages of this dataset for software and art research.

Tue 29 Apr

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09:00 - 10:30
Plenary: MIP + FCAMIP Award / FOSS Award / Vision and Reflection at 214
Chair(s): Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana, Jin L.C. Guo McGill University, Audris Mockus The University of Tennessee, Knoxville / Vilnius University, Martin Pinzger Universität Klagenfurt, Romain Robbes CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, Patanamon Thongtanunam The University of Melbourne
09:00
30m
Awards
MSR 2025 Most Influential Paper Award: Toward deep learning software repositoriesMost Influential Paper Award
MIP Award
Martin White Syneos Health, Christopher Vendome Miami University, Mario Linares-Vásquez Universidad de los Andes, Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary
09:30
30m
Awards
Myriad People Open Source Software for New Media ArtsFOSS Award (Runner-up)
FOSS Award
Benoit Baudry Université de Montréal, Erik Natanael Gustafsson Independent artist, Roni Kaufman Independent artist, Maria Kling Independent artist
Pre-print
10:00
30m
Talk
The Standard of Rigor for MSR Research: A 20-Year Evolution
Vision and Reflection
Bogdan Vasilescu Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Software and Societal Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Pre-print