artist-tutorial.net / First Issue / August 2003

"Four Events That Have Led to Large Discoveries" (19 September 1994)
by Merce Cunningham

Artist-tutorial.net is a monthly online periodical that intends to offer a collection of art tutorials writed by artists themselves as technical guide to the process of artistic creation.
In order to know how artistic creativity is expressed through the matter and technical practices coming from computer or scientific disciplines.

[Tutorial and artwork]
Whichever location in space and time the artwork may assume, the analysis of tutorial is based on the initial creation, the set of executed signs and sounds or the set of instructions to execute that generates the set of copies, of performances, the set of data transmissions or executions. The artwork belonging to digital arts of reproduction and to digital performing arts or belonging to the arts of communication and software cannot in fact be identified in an object but in the initial creation. What the philosopher Richard Wollheim calls 'type