Comment Games ARE Art! (Score 1) 149
This article should be in the "That word you keep using doesn't mean you think it does" department.
Art doesn't have to emotionally effect EVERYONE, people are different, some 'stuff' people define as art has no emotional effect the vast majority of people. Is clip art not art? Are war/action movies not art" Is rock music not art? Is anything that some pin head deams to be "not art" actually not art?
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Has the concept of what is and is not art drifted so far from reality that the word no longer has the same meaning?
Let see, define art...
Well maybe Google can define art for us or maybe Wikipedia can define art for us. Well Google isn't very specific, never is. But, Wikipedia is supposed to be by the people for the people kind of system and they say "Art, in its broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity or imagination, or both."
So, are video games an expression of creativity and/or imagination? I, for one, think, generally speaking, the answer is yes. *check*
I don't have a corncob up my ass so I can't speak for art critics but I think that word they keep using doesn't mean what they think it does. Now, while I'm not willing to shove a corncob up my ass or start publically proclaiming my own personal views as hardened facts -but- I am willing to see it from what seems to be their point of view.
'They' like the more emotional aspect of art. So, do video games invoke an emotional responce? For me, personally, I have had an emotional reaction while playing some games, I know some of my friends have as well. *check*
'They' like the "life changing" or "thought invoking" aspect of art. So, do video games invoke a life changing/altering or thought invoke/provoking experience? Given the state of the nation I think so, that brings to mind Deus Ex. Call of Duty had roughly the same effect on me as Saving Private Ryan, which is widely considered a work of art among war movies. Both have changed my life, both motivated me to learn more about the state of our world and our recent history without those I might be more ignorant and in a different place in life. (if that makes sense) *check*
In a reply to another article (forget which or I'd link to it) I tried to argue anything intended to entertain people is art. I stand by that notion but I don't think I need to bring it up again.
Games are art. They can try to change the meaning of the word art as much as they like but like any other information medium you will find art on the interactive multimedia information medium. And to be clear, game design or the crafting of the intended experience of the player, can be art. 'Our' happy medium can present art from many (if not all) other information mediums but in the general sense that bit of art is just more information moving along the medium to the player, if its presented in or allows the player to interact with it in a creative, emotion invoking, thought invoking/provoking, or other manor that reflects on an aspect of human nature then... *check* IT'S ART!
-Burn
Art doesn't have to emotionally effect EVERYONE, people are different, some 'stuff' people define as art has no emotional effect the vast majority of people. Is clip art not art? Are war/action movies not art" Is rock music not art? Is anything that some pin head deams to be "not art" actually not art?
-or-
Has the concept of what is and is not art drifted so far from reality that the word no longer has the same meaning?
Let see, define art...
Well maybe Google can define art for us or maybe Wikipedia can define art for us. Well Google isn't very specific, never is. But, Wikipedia is supposed to be by the people for the people kind of system and they say "Art, in its broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity or imagination, or both."
So, are video games an expression of creativity and/or imagination? I, for one, think, generally speaking, the answer is yes. *check*
I don't have a corncob up my ass so I can't speak for art critics but I think that word they keep using doesn't mean what they think it does. Now, while I'm not willing to shove a corncob up my ass or start publically proclaiming my own personal views as hardened facts -but- I am willing to see it from what seems to be their point of view.
'They' like the more emotional aspect of art. So, do video games invoke an emotional responce? For me, personally, I have had an emotional reaction while playing some games, I know some of my friends have as well. *check*
'They' like the "life changing" or "thought invoking" aspect of art. So, do video games invoke a life changing/altering or thought invoke/provoking experience? Given the state of the nation I think so, that brings to mind Deus Ex. Call of Duty had roughly the same effect on me as Saving Private Ryan, which is widely considered a work of art among war movies. Both have changed my life, both motivated me to learn more about the state of our world and our recent history without those I might be more ignorant and in a different place in life. (if that makes sense) *check*
In a reply to another article (forget which or I'd link to it) I tried to argue anything intended to entertain people is art. I stand by that notion but I don't think I need to bring it up again.
Games are art. They can try to change the meaning of the word art as much as they like but like any other information medium you will find art on the interactive multimedia information medium. And to be clear, game design or the crafting of the intended experience of the player, can be art. 'Our' happy medium can present art from many (if not all) other information mediums but in the general sense that bit of art is just more information moving along the medium to the player, if its presented in or allows the player to interact with it in a creative, emotion invoking, thought invoking/provoking, or other manor that reflects on an aspect of human nature then... *check* IT'S ART!
-Burn
