“Art does not reproduce the visible. It renders visible.” (Paul Klee)

Visual art stands in a complex relationship to the visible. In part, the visual arts gain their inspiration from what can be seen. The artist selects from the visible world and presents a transformation of the selection. The product emerges from both its object and its means of expression. The means of expression can only create an abstraction from the object. It cannot contain the infinite density of information of material reality. The art work has to construct its own reality. It constructs a theoretical object in its own right. This construction takes its place in the reality we know. Transcendental reality cannot be reached by finite thought, as Kant established. Human beings live in approximations and constructions.

Art renders visible by constructing. It makes aspects of the world special, attracting consciousness to them. The way that this is done creates a quality of perceptions for artists and the observers of their works.

For the artist, the phenomena of the world can inspire ideal forms or chaotic shapes and colours which cannot be seen in nature. They are rendered visible.

Programming is also a construction of realities. It is not driven by objects to be reconstructed from a world outside, but is a creative process which constructs a virtual world in its own right. As an artistic medium, the virtual world of programming informs the non-virtual world and interacts with it. It renders aspects of it visible. Through dynamic virtual objects, the users of virtual space have wider horizons and denser information rendered for them.

Object-oriented methodology has no end to its objects. In business applications the objects map business processes. In programming as art, the objects can render visible whatever the artist constructs.