The Expanding Medium: The Future of Computer Art

"Under different circumstances, the computer might equally well have been invented as an instrument of art, e.g. in the socio-political environment of ancient Greece, where art as well as science and technology was considered a noble pastime."

Herbert W Franketranslated by Ingrid Kurz, first published in Leonardo, Vol.20, No.4, pp.335-338, 1987.