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

["David Daniels" <owidnazo@thegatesofparadise.com>]

http://www.thegatesofparadise.com

Dear Folks,

In this quote is one of the few times if not the only time I have seen the 
idea BEAUTY written in a list.

"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)"

I try not to forget to try to express, create, cultivate, pour out beauty.

It is an old fashioned idea but it has a lot of good in it.

Your Friend,

David


http://www.thegatesofparadise.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roman Danylak" <rdanylak@it.uts.edu.au>
To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Concerning the poetics of programming and culture


> Yes I agree to some extent.
>
> I think there needs to be clear distinctions on writing. When Chaucer 
> wrote
> the Canterbury Tales in (circa)1380 using the English language, a 
> vernacular
> language, this was the first time  this diversity of characters had been
> described this way in this 'common' language. When Sutherland developed 
> the
> GUI as part of his PhD in 1963, the rhetorical purposes had vanished, the
> writing delivering commands of automated processes of visible simulation
> instead. The form was the content which reminds us of Mcluhan's famous
> dictum, 'the medium is the message'. Elegance, I feel, does not come into
> the picture yet, but certainly such judgments are the habit of our epoch.
>
>
> Roman
>
>
>
>
> 11/10/05 2:51 AM, "Bill Seaman" <bseaman@risd.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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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