tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941976044448685733.post4263357282477700415..comments2023-06-20T13:09:56.441+01:00Comments on Art and Artifice: Are video games art? Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13355163599192206484noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941976044448685733.post-49722108074149865212013-01-06T19:07:17.564+00:002013-01-06T19:07:17.564+00:00Roger Ebert weighed in on this several times --- h...Roger Ebert weighed in on this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_as_art#Roger_Ebert_on_video_games_as_art" rel="nofollow">several times</a> --- <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html" rel="nofollow">his answer was no</a>. However, quite a large portion of the comments he got (4963 on the second post, alone!) disagreed with him.mathinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02540927069321621930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941976044448685733.post-72955162133083857842012-12-17T11:51:41.957+00:002012-12-17T11:51:41.957+00:00Interesting post. A few quick thoughts:
1. The q...Interesting post. A few quick thoughts: <br /><br />1. The question "what is art?" is a pretty barren one. A better question may be: "Is it helpful to our understanding to look at this thing as 'art'?"<br /><br />2. I'm sure that videogames <em>could</em> be a medium for art. Whether it is helpful to our understanding of Pac-Man, say, to look at it as art is another matter. Though it may be helpful for MoMA to make us at least ask the question. <br /><br />3. There is an implicit value judgment in all of this: do these things attain to the level of 'art', or are they 'merely' games? I don't see that it is an insult to great games to regard them as just that: <em>great games</em>; just as it isn't an insult to The Four Tops' Reach Out I'll Be There as a <em>great pop song</em> rather than as a challenger to J.S. Bach.John Hhttp://twitter.com/johnhaltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941976044448685733.post-75961905243648132532012-12-06T22:16:11.315+00:002012-12-06T22:16:11.315+00:00The Guardian's games blog has taken a more cri...The Guardian's games blog has taken a more critical theory approach to the are video games art question: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2012/dec/06/video-games-as-art<br /><br />The blog highlights Blast Theory, a collective of artists using interactive media. You can read more about them here: http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/about.htmlRosie Burbidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04620450399931331172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941976044448685733.post-48876712423114815572012-12-04T17:27:20.070+00:002012-12-04T17:27:20.070+00:00Immediate reaction to question is " yes "...Immediate reaction to question is " yes ". Having wandered (usually accidentally) into a number of " modern art " installations in the past few years, games are certainly more " art " than a number of videos etc I've come across. I generally refer to the developers of games as <br />" creatives " and it's good to see their (collective) creativity being rewarded. Now for some case-law on moral rights ? Or will the individuals (rather than companies) who worked as " externals " be few in number / signatories to contracts that waived moral rights ?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17547963789032954274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941976044448685733.post-9687232079362081282012-12-03T09:52:05.954+00:002012-12-03T09:52:05.954+00:00Nick Boydell has written to say "Reminds me o...Nick Boydell has written to say "Reminds me of the National Videogame Archive which I read about recently" This is a really interesting article which shows a less arty and more cultural preservation approach to video games http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/british-library-starts-videogame-website-archive-project-6858507.htmlRosie Burbidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04620450399931331172noreply@blogger.com