Saying 'Can software be art?' is like asking if paint is art or clay. The issue with this question is you quickly end up lost in some metaphysical quagmire, the

Saying 'Can software be art?' is like asking if paint is art or clay. The issue with this question is you quickly end up lost in some metaphysical quagmire, there's a lot modern art has explored on this question, take modern greats such as Olafur Eliasson, or Ai Weiwei, or Rothko. Their work derives no greatness from the mediums they were made in but the ideas they form in our minds. The 'rule of thumb' when it comes to deciding what is art and what is just design, is does it have a use? To borrow a quote from wikipedia on Duchamps 'Fountain': "Whether Mr Mutt made the fountain with his own hands or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object"