what the person you replied to wrote still applies:

> It can be used to produce art, but it's not art itself.

one can argue that the actual art in the Demoscene is the things the code makes visible/audible, not the code itself.

it's like saying an empty piece of paper and a pen are art instead of the drawing which was made by using those things as tools.

there is an angle of a modern art installation featuring just a pen and an empty piece of paper, but that feels like an exception confirming the rule.