[-empyre-] Concerning the poetics of programming and culture

[Bill Seaman <bseaman@risd.edu>]

Hamilton and Bonk provide this perspective:

A computer language is a notation for the unambiguous description of 
computer programmes. Such languages are synthetic in their 
vocabulary; punctuation, grammar, syntax and semantics are precisely 
defined in the context of a particular operating system. They suffer 
from an inability to cope with autonomous expression - an essential 
attribute of an organic language. The poetic of computers lies in the 
genius of individual programmers to express the beauty of their 
thought using such an inexorable medium. (Hamilton & Bonk, 1997, 
p.309)

HAMILTON, R. and BONK, E. 1997. The Typosophic Texture. 
Politics/Poetics: Das Burch Zur Documenta X. Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz 
Verlag.

The program functions in conjunction with the work. Content arises 
based on textual inter-functionality on multiple levels as 
experienced by an interactant.

Best
Bill


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