At Carnegie Mellon they had a program called Stage Three. The idea was stage one is you invent new technology and play around with it. Stage two is when you begin mimicking old mediums. And stage three is when the art form comes into its own.
Aaron Hertzmann, Aaron Hertzmann on Caring about People
When I was at Carnegie Mellon and became director of a laboratory called the Studio for Creative Inquiry, I was using the resources of that laboratory to help support open-source software tools for the arts, like Processing.
Golan Levin, Golan Levin on the Potentiality of Blobs