Re: [microsound] SCREAM Festival?

[Kurt Ralske <kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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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