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> Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art. What about oral storytelling? Or just (re)telling jok
by simonsarris 15y ago
> Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art.
What about oral storytelling? Or just (re)telling jokes? Improv and related performing arts? Stage magicians? Mimes? Community murals?
- stephencelis 15y agoWhile the same thoughts crossed my mind, I think he probably meant art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Still, programming affords a combination of the widest reach and lowest barrier to entry: it rarely requires the artist, performer(s), or specific location(s) to be consumed as a medium.
- simonsarris 15y agoI agree with what he meant, but I dislike his use of the word "only." I hate to be really anal, but that kind of thing always sticks out in writing to me. "Hard distinctions make bad philosophy." as John McCarthy (of Lisp and AI fame) would say.
- iloveyouocean 15y agoI think his statement is incredibly short-sighted. Has he never been to an art museum with interactive sculpture, etc? Perhaps he could hedge on the 'degree' of interactivity offered, but with such an emphatic 'only', I think its more likely that he is simply wrong.
- zedshaw 15y agoAh, pedantry, the pinnacle of all evaluations of a single statement one could make. Next you should criticize how the book doesn't cover decorator generators that use @wrap or how it doesn't cover discrete mathematics. That'll be very effective.