Herbert W. Franke essay

This article was easier to read than the last few that have been assigned. Although he was very wordy, it was interesting to hear someone talk so openly about the possibilities of using computers in art. At the time, I'm sure there were many who opposed this idea, but it seems that Franke embraced this new media.

At one point he compares the way a computer processes, to how a human processes, and I thought that was very interesting. We build our machines to be like us and process like us, but now they might even be smarter than us. I like the idea of using the computer as an art form, as that is what I'm going to school for: new media design. It's really interesting how far computers have come and how much we have evolved to keep up with the other. It's as if you don't know which is evolving faster, the computer or the human.