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At least the interpretation-parts ;)

I do consider demos as an art form. But like with most art forms, I do consider the vast majority of productions to be tasteless kitsch.

The fact that the "art" appears in the interpretation, renders "experts" completely bogus. As seen in the stories about monkeys' paintings being praised in high terms. Not quite sure you'll be able to pull that off in the demo-scene ;)

Experts fooled by monkey-paintings

There's actually a little "quiz" to test, if you're able to tell paintings made by a monkey from a painting made by a human artist.

Ape Vs. Man

Surely coding an audio-visual product could be considered art as a digital medium.
Compared to an unkempt bedroom in a gallery, being suspended in a perspex cage for several months or exhibiting half a cow; demo's are the better part of the art "scene".
jmpov.

Some demos may have been designed in an artistic manner, but this is not a necessity.

The problem is that a growing part of the scene wants to see just art, instead of seeing a technical performance. Design is more important than optimization. So then we see demos which could run on a PS2 running on a high-end PC with difficulty.

i'll stick to my guns and define art along the lines of John Dewey and call it that which evokes aesthetic experiences - that could very well be demos, but it could just as well be something else. So sure - some demos are "art" and some are maybe something else.

Punqtured: I didn't imply that that definition was the one you agree with -- just that too many people do.

nic0: Yes, just as some paintings are art, but the painting of a car or a wall, not necessarily so :)

Punqtured: I guess you'd need quite a few million monkeys to get an acceptable demo :D

In the future monkeys will code demos.

In the future demos will code us.

Given enough monkeys, we could rule the world!

Haven't we already established the common fact that a demo is nothing but a glorified screen saver ?

But are screensavers art ?

Glorified screensavers with sound that aren't art but quite impressive:

http://www.3planesoft.com/

Xernobyl ftw!

no

In Russia the future codes us & monkeys.

Back to the topic ; yes, demos are art. ;)

Numbered limited copies of demos.

What kusma and blueberry said.

Definitive, demos are art.

What kusma, zerkman and nic0 said.

what Rothko, Dali and Warhol said.