Remarks and
Acknowledgments
I began this book thinking I was writing about \"the creative
uses of computers.\" Gradually， I began to realize that most uses of
computers are \"creative.\" It thus occurred to me that I had to nar-
row the topic， and I came to focus on the creative uses of computers
in the creative arts. While computers are being used in the arts on an
international scale， I felt it necessary to concentrate on computers
in the arts in North America. Even that was too large a topic，
though， since computers are used in so many， many areas of
creative art--in choreography， stage lighting， special effects in film，
and so forth. I narrowed the topic further to consider four kinds of
creative arts: visual arts， music， literature， and what I call the par-
ticipatory arts [games].
It is very clear that entire books can and have been written on
any one of those four topics. By including all four， then， I have
chosen breadth at the expense of depth. I have not been able， for in-
stance， to write about all the important visual artists， or all the im-
portant musicians in North America using computers. Instead， in
writing about individual artists， I have selected from among the top
ranks--according to my own idiosyncratic sense of both ac-
complishment and representativeness.
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