Here you find many new works by an artist you are unfamiliar with, and to you the exhibit seems foreign, devoid of any theme or reason, or perhaps just mundane. In an honest effort to understand what you are experiencing, you find and read the artist's statement on the exhibit, but find this no help because the text is nonsensical and adds no further meaning to the artists' work. In a final attempt to make sense of the exhibit, you find the artist himself and ask for some help understanding his exhibit. In the first scenario, we would be shocked that anyone calling himself a speaker would dare mumble incoherently to an audience, and then avoid any further inquiry into the talk's meaning or purpose. Yet in the two examples above many people will find the speaker's position ridiculous and the artist's position understandable, and perhaps even stereotypical.
Art is communication.
The artist is the communicator, delivering powerful messages and concepts to people through immediate objects and forms. The treatment is to ignore and dismiss the noise in search of the message, the knowledge, or the beauty. To those who find an artist that can articulate ideas clearly comes the satisfaction of experiencing concepts and cognitive states in immediately perceptual form. The artist can incarnate honor, strength, reason, clarity, integrity, and many other intangibles into real world objects for the enjoyment and reflection of those listening to his message. I work to add computation to the above list of intangibles given form.