Thinking more about it, hand optimized code that looks unusual also fits this definition perfectly.
Any good examples of avant garde code you can share?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...
There’s also a fairly huge subculture of abusing things such as Turing completeness (e.g. in CSS) to make tools and languages do things that they were definitely not designed to do. This isn’t just for utilitarian hacking, but also for completely aesthetic reasons (and maybe also for street cred and recognition for one’s mastery of obscure capabilities).
Quines snd especially radiation-hardened quines are basically just art.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
So are things like bogosort: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
This subculture you're talking about, do they exist as a community somewhere?
I knew about Quines, but I've never heard of radiation-hardened quines! That's really fascinating. Conceptually it does mimic radiation-hardened self-reproducing organisms.
IMO TempleOS is potentially the greatest work of outsider art in the history of the world.