>Back when I was in school, there was already plenty of debate about 'what is "Art"'? It's always been hotly contested. Most of my teachers felt that 'technique

>Back when I was in school, there was already plenty of debate about 'what is "Art"'? It's always been hotly contested. Most of my teachers felt that 'technique' was not Art. Others were more purists – life painters, etc – and felt that, no, technique is art. Of course people practising it would say that it is an art. And of course they would discount stuff that is beneath them as not art. "I'm creative, I don't just copy stuff I see!", just to feel better about themselves. So someone might say code is not an art, it's same as any other engineering. But code can clearly create art pieces, whether directly (say a shader generating pretty picture) or indirectly (AI training and generating pictures based on that). So, what, do we just say "art is any product that you can experience and have feelings about?". Nah, can't discriminate this and that based on that vague expression! We might even accidentally call blacksmith an artist if we go too far! /s