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by wollw
3256 days ago
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A Response: "After Alan Luo" [http://imgur.com/fmt1Kib] Being an Artist with a background in technology I can't help but appreciate this differently than I believe intended. I've been thinking a lot recently about the boundries of what is and isn't art in regards to technology (up to and including the division of Arts and Sciences at the Academic level) and feel like I need to say something about the use of the word Art here. To me, the Art is your unique contribution to the Art World, which is always the aspect of the work the Artist puts their heart into the most. Unless someone really picks up this tool as their medium of choice and makes true Art with it, the Art to see here will always be the code Alan Luo has writen. Code is poetry and deserves every bit as much respect as forms of it like concrete poetry, where things like indentation matter. It just kind of irks me to see Art get demeaned by people I would consider Artists if they reframed their work. |
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With the rise of the likes of Google's Magenta project, the use of the word 'art' is brought into question, just as you mention. So as the original dev, I'd like to give my two cents.
I do not consider the outputs of this program as 'art.' Whether or not the code is art is an entirely different question that I don't think is really important to address.
The documentation was a little hastily assembled for a deadline, so the following sentiment is not reflected in it, but the purpose of this project was never to create 'art' with code, it was to demonstrate that there exists a bridge between creativity and code. For me, the output of this program is not art in itself. However, I have used the output as a place to draw inspiration for other pieces of work that I would consider art. In this case, I use the program as an infinite source of inspiration rather than as the art itself.
By the way, I may write a blog entry about this topic in the future. You've brought up very interesting ideas. :)