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March 13, 2004

machines @01:06 PM

Programming is the activity by which the meaningless mechanical activities of the computer are given meaning. To really be able to manipulate the computer as a medium (to make the computer mean anything) requires programming.

Now I’m not saying that tools are bad – Photoshop, Premier, Flash, etc. are certainly useful. And of course I’m not saying that artists who only use such tools aren’t really artists. But each tool encodes (literally) a specific representational framework, a specific way of relating to computation. To only use such tools is to be perpetually trapped in other people’s frameworks, to never truly touch the medium.

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