...but you are also involved with programming as a website developer. What relationships are there between these two areas of interest in your working life?
What most interestingly relates these two areas of thought and development - art-making and programming - is the structure of their fundamental elements and the way I am able to build with and upon these elements. With art, its language (aesthetic) is all self-defined and always in a fluxing state of adaption/reaction, while the mediums and processes that bring this language to life are very much dependent on scientific understanding and logical reasoning. With programming, the languages (code) are defined but there are many and their structures can be widely diverse and complex. I must work within rules but those rules are themselves simply atoms to construct new functions and other languages from. The possibilities with each are imaginatively extensive.
I would begin to say that the fruits of art land in a visual, emotional, and philosophical realm while programming output is of a purely objective nature but that would be an unnecessarily limited perspective. The two disciplines work hand-in-hand with each other to produce the wonderful effects that we’re able to enjoy in numerous interactive websites and devices as well as countless movies and performances. Still, I wonder if one could make art purely out of the raw logic of programming , (beyond elegant solutions or useful and efficient functions) something beautiful by its own right and for its own purpose. I'd like to think so.
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