When
musicians have used the computerized, mechanical drum beat in place
of a live musician, we can hear it beating away monotonously and
unchanging, leaving us unsatisfied and distracted from anything good
that might be going on. Purposely making a painting as if a machine
made it is equally boring.
The exciting part of the computer images are their color, as seen on
the screen as a medium of light (red, green, blue). This is why they
are so suited to television, and movie animation, both light
mediums. When the image is printed however, its' redeeming qualities
are lost.
A machine does things in characteristically, machine-like ways. We
call the things machines do mechanical. A person does things in
characteristically human ways, one of which is making and using
machines. But is it not a strange desire, for a man to want to act
like a machine?... or to want to make a machine like a human? The
two cannot, and never will be, one and the same thing.
Powerful works "sometimes reveal awkwardness like those found in
great works humanity rates highest, because he who made them really
aimed at the best possible work." (135)
Albert Gleizes
135. Herschel B. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art, (Berkeley and L.A.
Cal., University of California Press, 1968), p.239
