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Video games as art
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MIT 3371 - February 10, 2014
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Agenda
The debate
What is art?
Games as art
Mid-semesterevaluation
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The debate:
Ebert
Games are not art in principle
Competitive, goal-oriented, and can be won
Focus should be on experience, not winning
Should improve or alter nature through the
artists soul Taste we know
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What is art?
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Art is the process of deliberately
arranging elements in a way that
appeals to the senses or emotions.
Wikipedia (via Kellee Santiago)
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The use of skill and imagination in the
creation of aesthetic objects, environments,
or experiences that can be shared withothers.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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The quality, production, expression, orrealm, according to aesthetic principles, of
what is beautiful, appealing, or of more thanordinary significance.
Oxford Dictionary
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What could make a game into art?
What games might be
considered art? Why?
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Art
Common ways to consider games as art
Relies on traditional artistic forms
New lively art
Tool or inspiration for art
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Traditional art
Smuts According to most major theories of art,
many video games should be considered art
First concreative mass art
Games can be considered art based on:
Elegance in competition
Narrative
Visuals / graphics
Audio
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Elegance in competition
Sports are evaluated on
aesthetics
Competition doesnt
preclude elegance
Art can be competitive
Includes competition
Entered in competitions
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Literature
Games rely on:
Literary / narrative conventions
Literary storylines
Offers different narrative experiences Interactivity makes stories changeable
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Literature
Narrative
A story that follows a sequence of events
Games follow narrative conventions Beginning, middle, end
Events, actions, plot, characters
Games also borrow from films
Camera techniques
Narrative devices and cut scenes
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Literature and film
Max Payne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4amtGiPpvhQ
Dantes Inferno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOZRRU_Dyg
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Music
Games can:
Use existing music
Create new music
Generate music
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Music
Eternal Sonata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owrBn3S1_3o
Rez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4EFNWe4m
Cc
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Visual art
Artists create game worlds
Art developed
through designprocess
Borrow artistic and
aesthetic styles
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World of Warcraft
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Halo 3
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Half-Life 2
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Bioshock
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Traditional art
Gravity Bone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdt-lboxt7Q
Okami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuz0-IF1MAk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdt-lboxt7Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuz0-IF1MAk&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuz0-IF1MAk&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuz0-IF1MAk&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuz0-IF1MAk&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuz0-IF1MAk&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdt-lboxt7Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdt-lboxt7Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdt-lboxt7Q8/12/2019 Video Games as Art - Presentation
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Do you think video games can beconsidered art given their relationship to
different art forms?
Is this enough to allow them to be
considered art in their own right?
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New lively art
Jenkins
Games are a new livelyart
Focus on valuingpopular culture
Great Arts:
Express universal andtimeless values
Lively Arts: Focus on popular
aesthetics
Give shape and form to
immediate experiencesand impressions
Embedded in everydaylife
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Art
Games still need to evolve to be art
Technical challenges and industry pressure arent
excuses
Games need:
Memorable momentsand emotional intensity
More experimentation and innovation Ongoing criticism
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New lively art
Lively arts:
Then: jazz, Hollywood films, comic strips
Now: Hollywood films, cable tv, video games
Games are a lively art because they:
Are popular and accessible
Have to be relevant and novel
Innovate and push boundaries
Are embedded in everyday life and experience
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New lively art
Passage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3o0HFXPfco
Flower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJam5Auwj1E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3o0HFXPfcohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJam5Auwj1Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJam5Auwj1Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3o0HFXPfco8/12/2019 Video Games as Art - Presentation
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What games might be goodexamples of a new lively art?
Do games have the potential to be
great art, or are they more likely to
be lively art?
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Tools and inspiration
Inspiration for fan art
Inspiration for fine art
Into the Pixel
E3 (2008) The Art of Video Games - American Museum of
Art (2012)
Art installations
Games as tools
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Halo fan art
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Warcraft fan art
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Fallout 3 - Into the Pixel
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Tools and inspiration
Dance, Voldo, Dance (Soul Calibur)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k08gjJbxG-A
Red vs Blue (Halo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BAM9fgV-ts
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MineCraft Imperial City
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ArtIs Not The Opposite
OfFun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f
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Are video games art (or could they be inthe future)?
Ebert questions,Why are gamers so
intensely concerned, anyway, that
games be defined as art? Why do you
think it might be important for games tobe considered art?
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Take away
Games may be considered art because of
their:
Use of traditional art forms
Status as a new lively art
Use as inspiration and a tool for art