As Synæsthetics refers to any technology, especially technological artworks, that use sensory data collection to effect/affect future outcomes in various forms, the focus of this chapter will begin with an exploration and history of software aesthetics as it revolutionized how information was processed and used in multitudinous cross-disciplinary ways.

Data collection and sense-aware electrical components enable creative expression to be shaped by software algorithms as well as projections, statistics, or differential inputs that drive the complexity of the data to a live and recorded output. This chapter will study the devices and mechanisms as a historical phenomenon and critically examine these technologies within surveillance and big data confines.

Key processes and themes examined will be the relationship between software and art, Cybernetics, AI and its algorithms in art, The Internet of Things, and Behavioural Structures.

Sherry Turkle, Luciana Parisi, Friedrich Kittler, Roy Ascott, Norbert Wiener, Jack Burnham, Sadie Plant, and Anna Munster, are among vital figures who have studied technology and culture extensively and will be discussed in the forthcoming publication.