Over at The Whitney Online thingy is an intriguing exhibition. Casey Reas has set about turning Sol Le Witt wall drawings into software systems. Starting by literally recreating the wall drawings using javascript the exercise then became for other designers to use those systems to create new emergent designs using various programming languages.

There are some beautiful results. Definitely worth a look.

I am not sure I understand the whole emergent software design stuff and I know for certain that I could not even begin going about creating such marvels myself. I sure wish that I could though. I have flicked through the books at the bookshop with the titles like Javascript 2.0 for Beginners and I have read the first page of these books and I find myself lost after the first sentence. They are truly daunting pieces of literature and it frustrates the hell out of me that I cannot read their language, learn their secrets. One day the kids on the street will be fluent in java or perl or c++ or somesuch because, you know, they learnt them in school and hard as I may have tried to remain savvy with the New Technologies I will have been left far behind.