Why am I doing this?
The computer environment is a vast media area capable of many great things:
computer software allows us to be creative in lots of different ways:
to paint, draw, write, compose music, create video, and combine elements of all of these things together. Despite all of these wonderful things which can be created by and using a computer, the computer has other unique abilities which cannot be replicated by other media:
the unique ability of the computer is to be interactive:
it is an environment which can take information from a user (mouse movement, keypress, sound input, video input, data input) and respond / react in a variety of different ways.
Interactivity is at the heart of the computer media itself.
“the true skill of a digital designer is the practised art of computer programming”
John Maeda
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