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Unless your mother got the computer in order to code json parsers or similar, how is this related to the questions? Nobody doubts that computers can be used to
by Grustaf 5y ago
Unless your mother got the computer in order to code json parsers or similar, how is this related to the questions? Nobody doubts that computers can be used to make art, the question was if programming was an art.
- pasabagi 5y agoI don't think you're reading the question correctly: an 'art' can be any kind of creative activity, so obviously, programming is an art independently of whether anybody ever makes 'art' with it.
- Grustaf 5y agoThe question is not about "art" as in τέχνη, then you might consider it an art. The question was about "the arts", and that means something else, it's the same "art" as in "artistic". Painting, writing etc.
- pasabagi 5y agoI guess 'art' and 'techne' have had a great deal of semantic drift in the last few centuries. I think many contemporary artists live in a post-Beuys world where art is what artists do, and everybody is an artist. In this setup, there is basically no distinction. Painters often have a different opinion.
- Grustaf 5y agoYes but this question was specifically about “the arts”, which is pretty unambiguous.