I'm not sure how you work, exactly, but testing, specing, and testing are all creative activities. Expressing your work in English prose is at least as challenging as expressing it in C++/Java/C# (and moreso than in Python). Also, work has finally embraced comprehensive unit testing (a la Extreme Programming), and sometimes the most challenging part of the day is figuring out how to test what you're writing in a reproducible way without involving a whole system's worth of other unpredictable components.
I'm not at all knowledgeable about art, but used to attend the University of Waterloo, where the Computer Graphics Lab (part of the Computer Science department) gives some courses jointly with the Fine Arts department, and even offer a joint degree at the graduate level.
All of students and faculty in the Computer Graphics Labs should have public web pages, so you can get some idea of the sort of work that
people are doing in the combined area.
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I'm not sure how you work, exactly, but testing, specing, and testing are all creative activities. Expressing your work in English prose is at least as challenging as expressing it in C++/Java/C# (and moreso than in Python). Also, work has finally embraced comprehensive unit testing (a la Extreme Programming), and sometimes the most challenging part of the day is figuring out how to test what you're writing in a reproducible way without involving a whole system's worth of other unpredictable components.
I'm not at all knowledgeable about art, but used to attend the University of Waterloo, where the Computer Graphics Lab (part of the Computer Science department) gives some courses jointly with the Fine Arts department, and even offer a joint degree at the graduate level.
All of students and faculty in the Computer Graphics Labs should have public web pages, so you can get some idea of the sort of work that people are doing in the combined area.