The Michaelangelo of the Microchip Masterwork out of the Machine?- Computer is different

For ages, artists have used tools developed for other purposes. Prehistoric people scraped images on rock walls with projectile points and carved bone and wood with cooking tools. Later, sculptors worked with the mundane hammer and chisel. Cameras were not invented to serve as artistic tools, yet photographers raised their craft to the level of art shortly after the camera's introduction. The computer is just the newest artistic tool that was produced for other purposes.

Computers don't create computer art. People create it, using the computer as a tool. The computer relieves some of the tedium of production and allows the artist to devote a larger portion of time and energy to a high level of creativity, much like the way Rodin delegated the execution of
some of his designs to his students. Now artists can dream grand visions and then program computers to produce those visions.
Some traditional artists are wary of computer art, seeing it as an interloper in the field of artistic expression. For 19th-century painters, photography was a similar kind of interloper, not deemed worthy of being called an art. But the computer is not a threat to artists. In art, as in its use in science, the computer forms a bridge between logic and creativity.