> Art is Fundamentally Social ... I suspect that this view could be useful for understanding other new phenomena as well. And old ones. There's a reason Don

> Art is Fundamentally Social ... I suspect that this view could be useful for understanding other new phenomena as well. And old ones. There's a reason Donald Knuth titled his lifelong works "The Art of Computer Programming". Having worked in the digital arts and seen the horizons - the staggering enormity of sheer possibility still only in its infancy - what troubles me about the industrialisation of code, not just centralised big-tech and disposable software "engineering" but the lockstep conformity of its cultural product, is what we have lost by forgetting that what we do as hackers is also Art.