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xim · 01-14-2004, 08:49 PM

I don't know. . . I would have a hard time calling a computer generated image 'Art'. I would definatly call the script itself a work of art. But since the actual images are just filtered products of some random (?) seed, there is no human imagination involved (past the initial creation of the filter (the script)). To me art is not just anything, but a creative creation created for the sake of creating, with labor and time. Now if he say wrapped a sculpture (even just a sphere) in these images or did something like that, adding creativity into them, it would unquestionably be art. On their own they are very similar to random numbers from a random number generator. Would every number be an artwork? I would say no, but the random number generator itself is.

The only real arguement that I can think of that would make the images art is that there seems to be something created in selecting which ones to display...the ones communicated... Just like each random number isnt art but If you creatively picked an amount of numbers and selected a font and positions for each of them on a canvas that would be art.

Call me crazy

01-14-2004, 08:49 PM	#7 (permalink)
xim Insane Location: One with the Universe	I don't know. . . I would have a hard time calling a computer generated image 'Art'. I would definatly call the script itself a work of art. But since the actual images are just filtered products of some random (?) seed, there is no human imagination involved (past the initial creation of the filter (the script)). To me art is not just anything, but a creative creation created for the sake of creating, with labor and time. Now if he say wrapped a sculpture (even just a sphere) in these images or did something like that, adding creativity into them, it would unquestionably be art. On their own they are very similar to random numbers from a random number generator. Would every number be an artwork? I would say no, but the random number generator itself is. The only real arguement that I can think of that would make the images art is that there seems to be something created in selecting which ones to display...the ones communicated... Just like each random number isnt art but If you creatively picked an amount of numbers and selected a font and positions for each of them on a canvas that would be art. Call me crazy __________________ If I could be anyone in the world I would be Britney Spears. Shes in so many commercials about pepsi... www.ximcity.com Last edited by xim; 01-14-2004 at 08:59 PM..