Questão de InglêsDiscurso direto e indireto | Reported speech

Text 7A2-II 

    In October 1971, a gentleman called Frieder Nake
published a note entitled, There Should Be No Computer Art,
which I quote here. “Soon after the advent of computers, it
became clear that there was a great potential application for them
in the area of artistic creation”, he began. “Before 1960, amazing,
large, expensive, digital computers helped to produce poetic text
and music. Analog computers, or only oscilloscopes, generated
drawings of sets of mathematical curves and representations of
oscillations. It was not before the first exhibitions of computer
produced pictures were held in 1965 that a greater public took
notice of this threat, as some said, progress, as some thought. I
was involved in this development from its beginning. 

    I think that the way the art scene reacted to the new
creations is interesting, pleasing, and stupid. I stated in 1970 that
I was no longer going to take part in exhibitions. I find it easy to
admit that computer art did not contribute to the advancement of
art if we compare the computer products to all existing works of
art. In other words, the repertoire of results of aesthetic behavior
has not been changed by the use of computers. This point of
view, namely, that of art history, is shared and held against
computer art by many art critics. There is no doubt in my mind”,
Frieder Nake said, “that interesting new methods have been
found in the last decade which can be of some significance for
the creative artist”.

    As you might imagine, this was a bit of a controversial
take. Here was a man who had for part of the previous decade
been an insider, an advocate for the use of algorithmic and
generative processes to create art. However, he was now seeing
things from another perspective. I’ll just finish with another piece
from what he posted in that article: “Questions like ‘is a
computer creative’, or ‘is a computer an artist’, or the like,
should not be considered serious questions, period. In the light of
what we are facing at the end of the 20th century, those irrelevant
questions do not matter”.

Where is the Art? A History in Technology.

Internet: <https://www.infoq.com> (adapted).