Re: [microsound] SCREAM Festival?

["D. Jean Hester" <jenajunk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see that he is comparing the understanding of art with the 
understanding of progamming, or making them exclusionary/opposed positions.  
For his part, John Simon was one of the first people to treat software 
creation as an artistic process, and software itself as an artistic product 
(or whatever word you want to use instead of product - object, whatever).  
Programming as art still isn't taken very seriously in the larger world of 
art... and now that the internet bubble has burst, being a programmer isn't 
even as cool as it once was... alas... :)

-- D. Jean Hester
www.divestudio.org
Interviewer: "Must an artist be a programmer to make truly original online 
art?"
John Simon: "Truly original? You Modernist! Whether you make art or not, 
understanding programming is an amazing understanding."
from "Code as Creative Writing: An Interview with John Simon"





> From: Kurt Ralske <kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [microsound] SCREAM Festival?
> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:44:59 -0500
>
>
> > Interviewer: "Must an artist be a programmer to make truly original 
> online
> > art?"
> > John Simon: "Truly original? You Modernist! Whether you make art or not,
> > understanding programming is an amazing understanding."
> > from "Code as Creative Writing: An Interview with John Simon"
>
> Wow that's quite a quote...for me, it reads the exact opposite of the way 
> it
> probably intends. Who can be so confident that the Modernist project is
> completely bankrupt...and why should "understanding programming" be any 
> more
> or less amazing than "understanding how to make art"?
>
> Kurt
>
>
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