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)