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. /x
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