Saturday, May 28, 2011

Video Games as art: A convenient follow up!

Saw this a while ago and figured it would be a good thing to link to, particularly considering I just wrote up a blog post about the subject a short while ago.

http://gaming.icrontic.com/article/nea-video-games-are-an-art-form/

In summary, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) of the United States considers video games to be a form of art. This can be seen in this particular paragraph, taken directly from the US Government's statement:

Projects may include high profile multi-part or single television and radio programs (documentaries and dramatic narratives); media created for theatrical release; performance programs; artistic segments for use within an existing series; multi-part webisodes; installations; and interactive games. Short films, five minutes and under, will be considered in packages of three or more.


Specifically the words "interactive games" pretty much cements it. That's one step forward for video games in this debate! BREAK OUT YOUR COPIES OF MARIO PAINT EVERYONE!

3 comments:

  1. Although I can't see anybody getting grants for making a game in the super near future, this opens doors for even more indie devs to get into the scene and to make real works of art without having to worry about commercial appeal.

    If nothing else we'll get a decent sidescroller with Michaelangelo's David shooting lasers out of his you know what.

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  2. They should call that game Plaster Master and it should be released on the Wii. Art and dick jokes all around!

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  3. Actually scratch that, it should be called Marble Madness since the sculpture's made from that. PLASTER IS JUST A LIE.

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