*Well, there's gonna be plenty for artists to complain about there, so might as well get with the complaining.
"Computer, or digital, art has been around for over 50 years: in the early 1960s Desmond Paul Henry and A. Michael Noll explored what artistic practices could be engendered through computer programs…"
(((I'm always pleased to see Desmond Paul Henry get a look-in – but let's not forget that ol' Des made his tech art with military-industrial ANALOG BOMB SIGHTS. Henry used military hardware that was designed, built, and used for the deliberate, hate-filled purpose of raining flaming death all over Europe, blasting and incinerating men, women, children, dogs, trees, churches, statuary… So, I don't wanna give the Chocolate Factory a free ride just because they're pouring line-item funds into code art. However, tech art doesn't arise from an unearthly condition of unstained moral innocence. It's grounded in the historical condition of technology and art generally. If we get art funding from fossil-fuel companies and colossal search-engine outfits, that's because we gave them huge amounts of money. We made them into our Medici because that is the state of our culture now.)))
