[-empyre-] 30 to 50 year olds

[jonCates <joncates@criticalartware.net>]

"Computers are by no means a new idea. They've been around for several years.
Their previous use has been business and war and each one of us has seen those
silly things called computer films." 

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"The reasons computer art will have difficulties being taken seriously are many.
First of all, it suffers from the same problems as all easy technologies such as
Polaroids and video. Polaroids and video are things everybody uses, but nobody
knows what to do with them. In a sense they are too simple for your average
genius." 

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"Polaroid and video and now computer suffer from the stigma of the promise of a
new utopia, a new order of morality which is going to get everything right,
which is going to operate with a higher degree of integrity, no reliance on past
marketing techniques, total change of social order toward a higher 'holier than
thou' notion than previous art forms."

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"It is part of a phobia or desire to reject the body, that artists who use new
technology attack art made in a previous technology, not realizing that any
medium is simply the way an artist creates his or her vision of the world.
Another effect of computers is that they will make everybody a better typist.
Having to become a good typist is not most artists' view of anything progressive."

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"It is only when a technology is at least 30 to 50 years old that artists claim
it as a new medium."

data.src:
title: "The PROGRAMMER'S GENITALS"
developer: Les Levine
platform: Send #8 Fall 1983
date: 1983

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