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Because people see them simply as computer animation with pre-recorded music. They don't understand the algorithmic beauty inside.

I don't think demos will ever have a wide mass-appeal, even while being one of the most demanding and beautiful of art-forms (in my opinion).

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I'm skeptical about that. I think that the issue is that even algorithmic beauty could be considered just aesthetics and people except more than beauty from art, as has (post-)modernism demonstrated very clearly.