[line] It was Thomas Riley Marshall who said, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar." I have often considered the idea of making an eight-bit cigar, but I am aware that an artist can't hang a cigar in an art exhibition without it being seen as a joke. As [quoteright]Leonardo
Eight bits in a byte of cigar ...
Now there are definite limits to the abuse that even an artist can bear, and given a simple binary choice between indeterminate guilt and indefinite repentance, I will seek a third option. It occurs to me that I am not responsible for making the stuff I've been putting on walls. The execution of commands by the machine is causing all the fuss, and it isn't my fault that the computer lacks aethestic judgment, civic responsibility, and moral integrity. Although this is a workable rationalization, it disturbs me that the machine is now suffering the guilt which I am so artfully dodging. Feeling somewhat awkward at having made it the target of all those well-intentioned objections, I begin to wonder about the possibility of teaching the machine how to repent. Despite the great advances which have been made in the field of artificial intelligence, it is obvious that it would be impossible to simulate the complexities of remorseful behavior with machine skills as limited as counting and repetition. I have no choice but to leave the machine to its own inadequate devices.
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We first encountered HUBERT HOHN, a Canadian artist-philosopher, at Apple Computer, where he demonstrated how one of their machines could cover a wall with art. Well, with something at any rate. Editor's Note : Hubert Hohn is an artist whose works include computer-generated art. An example appeared in THE ECPHORIZER last July.
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We first encountered HUBERT HOHN, a Canadian artist-philosopher, at Apple Computer, where he demonstrated how one of their machines could cover a wall with art. Well, with something at any rate. [line width="90%" color="#ffff00"] Editor's Note [1985]: Hubert Hohn is an artist whose works include computer-generated art. An example appeared in THE ECPHORIZER last July.