I'm holding my breath waiting to see typed "generics" released - from both the good and bad guys. Hopefully, 2004 will be an good year for language makers, and I can stop with most, if not all the insane code generation, pre-processors, and meta-language hacks that soil my otherwise clean, hand-typed code.
anything that requires creativity, and not just observational descovery is an art.
To say that Art is defined or requires creativity is foolishness. All Art requires is a subject and and observer. It is your eyes or ears - your facilities for observation, and not your hands through the act of creation, which make you an artist. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
By placing limits on art which require creativity, you have, in essense, destroyed it. Could it be so creative that it is no longer art? If it has no creativity, it is not art?
The painting or photographing of any still life (or just a swath of fabric) which the Artist does not arrgange for themself invalidates your statement, as these well known artistic actions are purely observational in nature.
Yes, absolutely, architecture is an art. The point of conversion is the context in which actions occur.
The recognized form of art where the line first blurred is during the Bauhaus (~1912), and the formal arguments are in the Werkbund, the official book of the Bauhus written by the founder, Walter Gropius. "Modernism" from the Bauhaus, over 80 years old now, is the acknowledgement of the machine as a tool for artists, and everyone with a tool is potentially an artist.
The act of creation is always an art. It's the [De]Constuktivists of 1920's Russia who proved this systematically in a way mathematicans could appreciate. This group of artists was the first to literally reverse engineer, then forward-engineer to create something totally new, all the while focusing on Assembly techniques that are still in use today.
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I'm holding my breath waiting to see typed "generics" released - from both the good and bad guys. Hopefully, 2004 will be an good year for language makers, and I can stop with most, if not all the insane code generation, pre-processors, and meta-language hacks that soil my otherwise clean, hand-typed code.
I hope bill the cat comes back too!
Analysis is aesthetics, Process is art.
anything that requires creativity, and not just observational descovery is an art. To say that Art is defined or requires creativity is foolishness. All Art requires is a subject and and observer. It is your eyes or ears - your facilities for observation, and not your hands through the act of creation, which make you an artist. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. By placing limits on art which require creativity, you have, in essense, destroyed it. Could it be so creative that it is no longer art? If it has no creativity, it is not art? The painting or photographing of any still life (or just a swath of fabric) which the Artist does not arrgange for themself invalidates your statement, as these well known artistic actions are purely observational in nature.
"C'est si n'est un pipe."
Yes, absolutely, architecture is an art. The point of conversion is the context in which actions occur.
The recognized form of art where the line first blurred is during the Bauhaus (~1912), and the formal arguments are in the Werkbund, the official book of the Bauhus written by the founder, Walter Gropius. "Modernism" from the Bauhaus, over 80 years old now, is the acknowledgement of the machine as a tool for artists, and everyone with a tool is potentially an artist.
The act of creation is always an art. It's the [De]Constuktivists of 1920's Russia who proved this systematically in a way mathematicans could appreciate. This group of artists was the first to literally reverse engineer, then forward-engineer to create something totally new, all the while focusing on Assembly techniques that are still in use today.
How is that unlike the art of hacking?