Comment Comment by 4ggr0 what the person you replied to wrote still applies:> It can be used to produce art, but it's not art itself.one can argue that the actual art in the Demoscene is the things the code makes visible/audible, not the code itself.it's like saying an empty piece of paper and a pen are art instead of the drawing which was made by using those things as tools.there is an angle of a modern art installation featuring just a pen and an empty piece of paper, but that feels like an exception confirming the rule. parent 4ggr0 1 month ago
> It can be used to produce art, but it's not art itself.
one can argue that the actual art in the Demoscene is the things the code makes visible/audible, not the code itself.
it's like saying an empty piece of paper and a pen are art instead of the drawing which was made by using those things as tools.
there is an angle of a modern art installation featuring just a pen and an empty piece of paper, but that feels like an exception confirming the rule.