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Using programming to create art is a practice that started in the 1960s. In later decades groups such as Compos 68 successfully explored programing for artistic purposes, having their work exhibited in international exhibitions. From the 80's onwards expert programmers joined the '[[Demoscene]]', and tested their skills against each other by creating "demos": highly technically competent visual creations.

Currently there is a renewed interest in the question why programming as a method of producing art hasn't flourished. [[Google]] has renewed interest with their Dev Art initiative, but this in turn has elicited strong reactions from the existinga number of creative coders who claim that coining a new term to describe their practice is counterproductive<ref name=hacktheartworld>{{cite web|url=http://hacktheartworld.com/|website=www.hacktheartworld.com|title=Hack The Art World|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>.

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