Not getting into the thing of 'what is art' too darn difficult. However. What is an artist? An actor is an artist (only his mum and dad made him, not an artist) The people who do the scenery aare artist. The team who make the props are artists. The one who write the story, artist scrip, artists director, artist (The person who designed the pattern on the cups in the canteen is an ptobably artist, but I digress) CGI models, artists Textures, artists Poser people, artists Take em out the box and bung em together, art!, doh! , no art ??? may need something else here. I know, AN ARTIST A piece of art can, and has been produced from anything from garbage, fruit, paints, charcoal, wood, granite, ........, and dare I say computers. The artist creates the image from imagination, and uses whatever is at his/her disposal to achieve it. I f the end result is what they set out to achieve it is successful art. If it involves, pleases, horrifies, or stirs emotion of some kind in others it can be descibed as successfull art. There always luddites knocking the next technological jump, people knocked the car, calcuator, telephone, record, any number of machines and of course computers, dismissing them as unnecessary and 'what would be left for people to do' Howevermuch comes out of the box in computer art, an artist will always have to have imagination at some level to produce something worthwhile and there will always be very talented artists pushing the envelope and producing stuff with the wow1 factor at the top level. Most of us will flounder around very happily in between. Like most things in life, Have Fun! and Support rather than knock others. Have a good one ;-)