Shoutout to the digital art exhibit featuring live coding visuals

Tbh, watching the code change in real time was pretty cool.

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What if we're not meant to just watch the code, but to see the artist think? Most art only shows the finished work, hiding all the rough drafts and wrong turns. Watching the code change live is like seeing the sketch under the painting. You get to witness the problem solving and the little fixes in real time. That struggle is a human process, and showing it is pretty brave. The point might be letting us in on the act of creation itself.

caleb1911d ago

Watching code update live feels more like a tech demo than real art to me. It's neat for a second, but then you're just staring at lines changing without any deeper meaning. I remember when art was about something you could feel, not just see algorithms run. Sure, it's different, but calling it cool might be stretching it for people who want more from art. The novelty wears off fast, and you're left wondering what the point was.

phoenix1326h ago

Hold up, did you just call watching someone code a tech demo? That's wild. A tech demo is some polished thing made to sell you stuff. This is the total opposite, it's showing the real human mess before the polish. You're watching the actual stress sweat when a loop breaks or a color looks wrong. Calling that a demo misses the whole raw feeling of it. It's like saying a documentary about building a house is just a blueprint.