Re: [microsound] Re: livecoding

[Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo,
Exegene hat gesagt: // Exegene wrote:

> The principal barrier to use in the rich west of computers is one of 
> economic status - people are largely familiar with the idea of a computer 
> and its basic use, but they're still not cheap enough to sit atop every 
> desk. There are additional barriers however to the ability to enjoy in an 
> aesthetic setting code, barriers overcome only with education or hackery 
> more or less extensive in commensuration with the code's nonobviousness to 
> the uninitiated. When the prospective audience is able to enter the 
> community of those to whom the art is meaningful, or otherwise find 
> themselves in supply of the technological baseline necessary to take part 
> in computer art, that computer art should be considered elitist in only a 
> mitigated sense. More or less extensive education or hackery, however, are 
> available to a much more restricted group, indeed, elite, group than that 
> which is capable of taking meaningful part in computer art, allowing 
> practices such as livecoding to be considered less socialist.

IMO you miss, that live coding also is about education and that the
tools used are generally free software and that many live coders
participate in activities for freely sharing the knowledge they
aquired - mostly through free sources like public mailings lists,
wikis, tutorials etc. themselves. 

In this regard live coding is much more socialist than many other
computer artforms.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

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