Do you know what art is?
Have a look at these pictures I crated and tell me if you think these are art?
Ok, I realize these pictures are crap, its unlucky that anyone is going to want to hang these in their bedrooms (maybe over the can though). But weather or not they are good art is not the topic of this blog. I want to know weather or not they are art.
So what is your definition of art? A pretty picture? A form of communicating ideas and feelings? Entertainment?
Have a look at these pieces of art, done by Richard Schur.
Why is Richards art better then mine? Is it better?
Ok, here is the crux of my blog: what if I told you that the art that I have been passing off as mine, was in fact created by my computer. I wrote a short Java program that generates these images. Now, is it still art? And if it is, who is the artist? Is it me because I wrote the code that generates the images? Is it my computer or the jar file running on the pc because it is the entity that produced the images? Is it the guy who wrote the random number generator function that I use in my code to generate the pictures?
There is more to this blog, but I am going to split it up over a few posts. I want to get some feedback before I continue on.
Ask yourself this: do you need to be human to produce art? Or do you just need to be human to perceive art? If you thought my pictures were art before you knew that my pc created them, then doesn’t that make them art?
Anyone interested in the program I created can mail me and I will send it you.
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