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This is perhaps a limitation to be expanded but not overcome: celebrated and fully
explored using all we have, including our new computer languages. We have char-
acterised a bricolage approach to artistic programming as an embodied, creative
feedback loop. This places the programmer close to their work, grounding discrete
computation in orientational and temporal metaphors of their human experience.
However, the computer interpreter extends the programmer's abilities beyond their
own imagination, making unexpected results likely, leading the programmer to new
creative possibilities.
Acknowledgements
Alex McLean was supported by a Doctoral grant awarded by the UK EP-
SRC.
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