Real Art

One of my favorite conversations to have with Nate is pondering the questions "What is Art?" Nate has what I would call a very closed view, basically if it is not paint (or ink or conté or the like) and if it does not possess some element of beauty, it is not art thus tossing out photography but not sculpture, that's art too. Okay, so it's an oversimplification of his position, but it's why we can have this conversation more than once.

So is the woman in the video above an 'artist'? She did scribble some stuff on paper and scan it in to her computer, but her 'art' is computer code with video driven user input. It's cool looking, it might even be beautiful, but is it art? What do you all think?