Getting wonderfully close and missing the point
"The high quality of computer screens, and the facilities of computer-assisted visual rendering software, have made the computer screen a medium of choice for visual art. Most visual art is the result of a collaboration between human artists and their intelligent art software. Virtual paintings--high-resolution wall-hung displays--have become popular. Rather than always displaying the same work of art, as with a conventional painting or poster, these virtual paintings can change the displayed work at the user's verbal command, or can cycle through collections of art. The displayed artwork can be works by human artists or original art created in real time by cybernetic art software."
text by Raymond Kurzweil from The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) as he gets out his crystal ball and makes predictions for 2009
image by Pixel-Pusher
2009/01/06 - 09:49 AM