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totality of man's activity, the art which man creates and produces as his
legacy cannot cling to the styles of the past, but evidently needs to
explore the new worlds with new materials
which man has acquired. art is in a sense
In the present situation, the computer is not, tha
f totity
in fact, autonomously creative, although it is ofthe totality
of man'sactivity.
analytical and representational. That does not
mean, however, that the creation of plastic arts and music with comput-
ers is not in itself creative. Because it is the artist who writes the computer
program, there is no essential difference between art using computers
and art which does not use computers.
In the creation of music, a composer realizing an image creates a pro-
cedure, which is, in fact, already a kind of programming. The actual pro-
cedure may be executed by a computer as a substitute for hands or for a
part of the brain's function. According to the principle with which man
creates an "extension" of himself, a tool becomes an extension of the
hands, a musical instrument becomes an extension of the vocal chords,
and a car becomes an extension of the feet. In this sense, it is appropriate
to think that in art, the realization of an image by a computer is executed
as a substitute for or as an extension of the brain.
Previously, many criticized electronic music and tape music, which are
both created from the material of natural or electronically generated
sounds, as being "inhuman" because there was no act of performance by
a human being. The statement by Croce that "physical fact is not an
artistic truth," would be appropriatein this context. No matter how art is
processed by technological manipulation, what is fundamental to it is
man's imagination; there is no art without the operation of spiritualfunc-
tions. Art is brought into existence because there is "mind."