RE: [-empyre-] tangent: software / conceptual art

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

> Of course before LeWitt's instructions there were the instruction
> pieces of Fluxus... like LaMonte Young's "draw a straight line and
> follow it." Florian Cramer notes the parallel with code art here
> http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_apps43/cramer/oooo.html

I'd just point out that Florian says

"{5: No computer can reprogram itself; self-programming is only possible
within a limited framework of game rules written by a human programmer. A
machine can behave differently than expected, because the rules didn't
foresee all situations they could create, but no machine can overwrite its
own rules by itself.}"

But this is false. See for instance
http://www.fact-index.com/s/se/self_modifying_code.html . The technical term
is 'self-modifying code'.

ja