From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!lime!burdvax!hdj Newsgroups: net.graphics Title: Re: Is it art? Article-I.D.: burdvax.541 Posted: Mon Feb 7 07:53:40 1983 Received: Tue Feb 8 03:24:47 1983 References: utah-cs.1346 'Irreguardless' (sic!) of whether the work is impressive, I maintain that 'Factal (sic) Planetrise' isn't art. Personally, I thought Pauline Ts'o and others explained the distinction between art and 'impressive pictures' pretty well. A good question now is: *why* is there such a dearth of actual computer art? Is it due to a lack of good software or hardware? What would be an ideal software/hardware 'environment' for production of computer-graphical art? Is 'computer art' an inherent contradiction? Is anyone out there familiar with the goals and methods of the MIT Visual Language Workshop, or other computer art workshops, and would you care to enlighten the rest of us? I don't want this discussion to be centered on whether or not some particular work is art, but rather on the deeper issues concerned with high technology and art, which have been called "the two cultures." This is getting good, Herb Jellinek, SDC/aBC R&D burdvax!hdj (uucp), jellinek@wharton-10 (ARPA), 215-648-7456 (Ma)