Vídeo games are not just contemporary art - they are THE dominant contemporary artwork of our age. Yes some people choose to ignore it but having studied the a

Vídeo games are not just contemporary art - they are THE dominant contemporary artwork of our age. Yes some people choose to ignore it but having studied the arts - painting, writing, even filmmaking at this stage are more and more subservient to videogames. Virtually everything that’s new and exciting in art in the last 20 years have been videogames. If you’re brilliant and you want to make art these days you generally go for videogames I’d say. As a Filmmaker myself it’s interesting that reading the history of film it similarly wasn’t recognised as the dominant artform of its age / in fact quite the opposite it was considered commercial product only. It was only with a Frederico Fellini film being banned for instance that freedom of expression was allowed in film. That was because in breaking with precedent courts decided that film was art! It took Fellini to make them do that. Or so goes the history I’ve heard.