Re:There Should Be No Computer Art (1971) [pdf]
by iamacyborg on Saturday March 13, 2021 @06:58PM
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The software doesn’t contribute anything it wasn’t programmed to contribute, is my point.
Re:There Should Be No Computer Art (1971) [pdf]
by ctdonath on Saturday March 13, 2021 @09:57PM
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Neither is the brush.
Re:There Should Be No Computer Art (1971) [pdf]
by iamacyborg on Sunday March 14, 2021 @05:12AM
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Correct, but no one tries to claim that the brush made an art work.
Sure, many people may think that the director is the central figure, (often foolishly) even going so far as to almost completely discounting the impact others have, however I don’t think many people would be willing to completely discount the DoP, editor, screenwriter, etc. as artists in their own right, with their own contributions to the finished artwork.
As such your argument seems suspicious and weird. Sure, actual people were also involved in the creation of this hypothetical computer generated final artwork in different roles but can you be so quick to dismiss the contribution of the software?
I don’t think this is as easy to discount as you make it sound.