Art theft in the modern world

Whether it’s music or art, we’re entering an age where matters of ownership are almost as blurred as fluid art on Instagram

Dick Pountain is editorial fellow of PC Pro. You can see six of his abstracts at tinyurl.com/363abstracts and hear his Kaprekar tune at tinyurl.com/363kaprekar Email dick@dickpountain.co.uk When I’m not writing this column – which let’s face it is most of the time – I perform a variety of activities to keep me amused. Apart from walking, cooking, reading, listening to music (live and recorded) and playing guitars, I have a couple of computer-based “hobbies”. Namely making computer-generated music and computer-generated pictures (non-moving). I recently restarted work on my Python-based computer composition system Algorhythmics – which I described back in issue 306 – after a four-year rest. What inspired me was a YouTube video about the Indian mathematician D R Kaprekar and some interesting numbers he discovered, so I set up…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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