It’s Official: Videogames are considered Art
Tuesday 8 December 2009 @ 11:30 pm | By Sol 12 Comments
Open to the public in March 2012, The Smithsonian American Art Museum plans to open their newest art exhibit: The Art of Video Games.
The Art of Video Games will show the development of visual effects and aesthetics during four decades, the emergence of games as a means for storytelling, the influence of world events and popular culture on game development, and the impact that the games can have on society.
Museum visitors will be able to experience,”multimedia presentations of game footage, video interviews with developers and artists, large prints of in-game screen shots, historic game consoles, and a selection of working game systems for visitors to play.”
My favorite line from the press release is the nod to videogame storytelling: they can be considered a compelling and influential form of narrative art.
Looks like it’s time to plan my 2012 birthday…
Smithsonian via/ Fidgit
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Hurray! Though I didn’t need a museum to tell me, this is very welcome.
Really…
Well I still say video games are not art.
Not that its a bad thing…
same as film making and even just literature..
there’s writing, directing, graphic concepts, acting (most bad xD).. its a whole composition. it’s art that’s not just seen, but experienced o.-
others are just shit xD
Kuroneko I must endure my suggestion taht you check Gamer Girl, the best novel ever written.
here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnyPNdepDl8
See that’s my point… There is art within games… The score, the scenery, the dialogue… But the game as a whole is not a work of art in itself. And like I said its not like its a bad thing. With art you are left to experience the artist’s message in any given work. In a game you take part in the action, in a sense “you are the artist.” So in some cases its something even greater than art.
Which is why I’ve never understood the need to legitimize games in the mainstream by labeling them “art”, when really they can be so much more.
Good to know that there are people in the art community who are starting to recognize what video games can be used to achieve artistically. Just because most games are simply entertainment, that doesn’t mean that they all are – or that that will be the case in the future.
ahh all the way till 2012… that gives me plenty of time to get that visa :D
it was stolen and i cant get it yet u.u
Holy shit, wtf?? I come back to Dark Diamond and get informed with this?! This is amazing!!! T____T
Sweet! Now that I am workin’ for a videogame developer does that mean that I am an artist?
no ò.ó
just kidding xD
what do you do? =)
My my, this is great D: a recog with gnition.
I am expecting to see more on this.
I hope to be able to go when this exhibit is going all. Plus the sakura trees will be blossoming in DC in March. I see make pics in the future.