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You'll never see games at fancy art galleries or contemporary art museums in NYC because games are too accessible

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tomjakubowski 2y ago
I've seen and played games at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC. Maybe I got lucky but it's one of like three museum visits I've ever done as a tourist in the city.
raimondious 2y ago
Except perhaps the most well known contemporary art museum in the world: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798 https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798
NoboruWataya 2y ago
Rather, I think they are not accessible enough. A picture on a wall, a movie or music can be experienced by hundreds or thousands of people all at once. Games in an art gallery have a much lower natural limit to the number of people who can interact with them simultaneously (at least in the same physical space). Sure, you can watch others do it, but that's not really the same thing (it's more like watching performance art than playing a game). I have in fact been to art galleries which had interactive game-like exhibits. I basically never got to interact with them because, lo and behold, there was a long queue.
miltonlost 2y ago
The Smithsonian has a traveling exhibition specifically about Art in Video Games: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime instead of assuming you know what one is
- lupire 2y ago
  It's "The Art of Video Games"
- marifjeren 2y ago
  I stand corrected by you and others > Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime This however is unfair and hypocritical re: assuming. I have been to many of the world's most celebrated museums of art, at least dozens of them, and have never personally seen video games in them firsthand.
aprilthird2021 2y ago
Don't most art museums have free days for city residents, etc.? Almost every game requires an expensive hardware purchase and often a separate $60-$70 for the game itself
arendtio 2y ago
Not NYC, but in 2002, I saw Quake 3 Arena at the Documenta 11 in Germany: https://www.documenta11.de/data/german/index.html https://www.documenta11.de/data/german/index.html I was surprised to see a video game, especially a Quake game, at an Art exhibition.
The-Bus 2y ago
The Museum of the Moving Image has had video games in its collection since the 1980s. https://movingimage.org/collection/collection-spotlight_video-games/ https://movingimage.org/collection/collection-spotlight_vide... Hauser & Wirth have had essays on video games in their magazine: https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/too-late-for-earth-too-soon-for-the-stars/ https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/too-late-for-earth-too-so...

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I've seen and played games at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC. Maybe I got lucky but it's one of like three museum visits I've ever done as a tourist in the city.

raimondious 2y ago

Except perhaps the most well known contemporary art museum in the world: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798 https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798

NoboruWataya 2y ago

Rather, I think they are not accessible enough. A picture on a wall, a movie or music can be experienced by hundreds or thousands of people all at once. Games in an art gallery have a much lower natural limit to the number of people who can interact with them simultaneously (at least in the same physical space). Sure, you can watch others do it, but that's not really the same thing (it's more like watching performance art than playing a game). I have in fact been to art galleries which had interactive game-like exhibits. I basically never got to interact with them because, lo and behold, there was a long queue.

miltonlost 2y ago

The Smithsonian has a traveling exhibition specifically about Art in Video Games: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime instead of assuming you know what one is

lupire 2y ago
It's "The Art of Video Games"
marifjeren 2y ago
I stand corrected by you and others > Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime This however is unfair and hypocritical re: assuming. I have been to many of the world's most celebrated museums of art, at least dozens of them, and have never personally seen video games in them firsthand.

aprilthird2021 2y ago

Don't most art museums have free days for city residents, etc.? Almost every game requires an expensive hardware purchase and often a separate $60-$70 for the game itself

arendtio 2y ago

Not NYC, but in 2002, I saw Quake 3 Arena at the Documenta 11 in Germany: https://www.documenta11.de/data/german/index.html https://www.documenta11.de/data/german/index.html I was surprised to see a video game, especially a Quake game, at an Art exhibition.

The-Bus 2y ago

The Museum of the Moving Image has had video games in its collection since the 1980s. https://movingimage.org/collection/collection-spotlight_video-games/ https://movingimage.org/collection/collection-spotlight_vide... Hauser & Wirth have had essays on video games in their magazine: https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/too-late-for-earth-too-soon-for-the-stars/ https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/too-late-for-earth-too-so...