I think if you want to have a career in art, being able to program will help a lot. Few artists can program and good art is always about moving forward. The kind of people you want to impress as an artists generally don’t know how to program. That means that it’s relatively easy to impress people.
If you know how to sew, creating clothing that uses an arduino lilypad to do something shiny is relatively straightforward. If you walk dressed like that into art auctions people will start to notice you and ask you about it and then you can tell them about your art as an upcoming artist.
That said, you don’t need to major in computer science to be able to program. If you do a bunch of projects with arduino, the coding isn’t that complicated and you can put up the code on github to show that you can program.
As far as game programming goes, in the LW community we have people like Kaj_Sotala who works on creating a game that teaches bayesian updating. He might benefit from someone doing the necessary artwork for the game for him.
I think if you want to have a career in art, being able to program will help a lot. Few artists can program and good art is always about moving forward. The kind of people you want to impress as an artists generally don’t know how to program. That means that it’s relatively easy to impress people.
If you know how to sew, creating clothing that uses an arduino lilypad to do something shiny is relatively straightforward. If you walk dressed like that into art auctions people will start to notice you and ask you about it and then you can tell them about your art as an upcoming artist.
That said, you don’t need to major in computer science to be able to program. If you do a bunch of projects with arduino, the coding isn’t that complicated and you can put up the code on github to show that you can program.
As far as game programming goes, in the LW community we have people like Kaj_Sotala who works on creating a game that teaches bayesian updating. He might benefit from someone doing the necessary artwork for the game for him.