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The computer gives us tools that allow us to create and manipulate images and vitural spaces in fundamentally new ways. Once the basics of a program's interface are understood it can be used to easily make images that are bold and visually interesting. This is one of the biggest criticisms of art created on the computer. The ease with which photographs can be manipulated with filters, for example, makes it hard to embrace the result as anything but kitch. To truely use the computer as an artmaking tool it is perhaps best to see its role in the larger history of art, which is to see it as a tool and not something that makes art for us. That is the perspective strived for in Computer Art which sees this new tool as part of a long lineage of useful technologies for making art.