Are video games art? Is that even a decent question? Because that answer is clearly based on how you define art. A broad definition of art will allow video games to be art while a narrow definition will rule them out as art. And those definitions will not help us know how to judge the art of video games.
In searching for a better way to judge video games as art I learned that the most recent art movements are Computer Art and Relational Art. Computer Art is easy to understand and recognize. Relational Art emerged in the late 1990s. Nicholas Bourriaud (1998), an art critic, developed the idea of Relational Aesthetics which judges artworks on the basis of the inter-human relations which they represent, produce or prompt.
This idea intrigued me. Are video games relational art to any degree? And how would I know?
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Good topic!
ReplyDeleteThis has been debated and discussed for a bit now and you can find some excellent source material for your paper.
Can't wait to read what you come up with!
Cheers!
I have to agree, I think you have chosen a well known topic so you have alot to write about as well as sources. Since Computer Art and Fine Art/Illustration coincidentally is the field I'm going into I'm extremely looking forward to your essay ^^.
ReplyDeleteOh this is a lot like my topic! But mine is more like what makes up a video game (and how each person has their own way of looking at it). I think it will be interesting to read the finished essay of yours to see if it is anything like mine
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