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Why games are not art
- msabalau 14y agoPersonally, I find helpful Adam Sessler's distinction that video games may not be art, but they are certainly culture. Of course, the word "art" means some many different and contridictory things to so many different people (and often to the same person) that I'm not certain it's very useful to have a "is it art or not" conversation with someone unless they define what they mean by art in the first place. That being said, the way this author goes to MOMA, and then grunts a disgusted "art is bullshit" like he was some character from a 1920s novel is fairly lame. Modern art has been around longer than any of us has, and six year old kids at the Tate Modern are capable of "getting" much of it on certain levels. One can appreciate that something may not be to a person's taste, but boastful willing ignorance is bad form.
- bunderbunder 14y agoThe very phrasing of the question betrays the author's weak understanding of the subject. Of course games aren't art. Games are a medium. And like any modern medium, it can be used to make art such as the game We the Giants, or the film Un Chien Andalou. It can also be used to make things that some might not consider to be purely art but that at least indisputably contain a lot of art, such as most any RPG or Hollywood movie. And of course there's also your straight-up entertainment - a sports game or a sports broadcast.