2000, Sarah L. Higley, “Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG: Inventing Languages on the Internet”, inM/C: A Journal of Media and Culture[1], volume 3, number 1:
The field, then, is open to re-examination, and the recent phenomenon ofconlanging is evidence that the art of inventing languages is neither lunatic nor infantile.
2015 September 29, David J. Peterson,The Art of Language Invention[2],→ISBN, page260:
Should that be a factor in determining whetherconlanging is an art form or some other kind of practice?
2020 August 12, “A Primer on Constructed Languages”, in Jeffrey Punske, Nathan Sanders, Amy V. Fountain, editors,Language invention in Linguistics Pedagogy[3],→ISBN, page 6:
This period also saw the further development ofconlanging as an art form, most notably by JRR Tolkien, setting the stage for the current era ofconlanging, discussed in Section 2.5, whereconlanging's status as art and even as a profession has been solidified.