How are art and computer science related?

What is art? Something that makes us feel an emotion? An appealing way of arranging materials? Deviations from convention? Something that's pleasing to the eye? Whatever it is there are some more intriguing questions when we mix art and computer science. Can a computer create art, for example? What happens when artists learn some computer science and mix it with their art? Could a computer ever be called a work of art?

How ever you define it, creating an emotionally or intellectually engaging work of art requires innovation, creativity and imagination. It turns out that those qualities of an artist are good qualities for a computer scientist to have too. They help us to come up with new ways of doing things, or new things to do. Thinking like an artist can lead to new forms of engagement both with computers and even between humans.

Here we play with the relationship between art and computer science and explore how they creatively feed each other.