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Article #643Re: The Aesthetics of Computers
From: g.l.sicherman
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1988 08:11
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1988 08:11
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Eugene is right on the nose, as usual. In the Age of Print, if we read about a famous work of Art, we ask, "What does it look like?" In the Computer Age we would have to ask, "What does it look like TODAY?" Except that in the Computer Age we don't *look at* Art, we participate. So the correct questions are, "What does it do to me? What do I do to it?" "Take this space between us -- fill it up some way" Art as we know it resides in that space. Electronics eliminates it by imploding society. "We have no art. We do everything as well as we can." Col. G. L. Sicherman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!hplabs!hplabsz!taylor From: gls@odyssey.att.com (g.l.sicherman) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: The Aesthetics of Computers Message-ID: <1522@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 2 Feb 88 08:11:01 GMT Sender: taylor@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, NJ Lines: 15 Approved: taylor@hplabs