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Are videogames art?
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Are videogames art?
Would you consider videogames to be art?

I will give my opinion: Some games can be considered art, while other games cannot, the same way not every book or movie is art.

So indeed, games have the potential to be art. What matters is the "work" in itself, and not the medium, in my opinion.

What are your thoughts?
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RE: Are videogames art?
(November 6, 2018 at 5:57 pm)Macoleco Wrote: Would you consider videogames to be art?

I will give my opinion: Some games can be considered art, while other games cannot, the same way not every book or movie is art.

So indeed, games have the potential to be art. What matters is the "work" in itself, and not the medium, in my opinion.

What are your thoughts?

To answer this, we'll have to define what art is! 

Am I correct in thinking that you assign a sense of quality to the meaning of the term "art"? That is, you hold that a work of art will be of more value or depth (or something), than a mere work of entertainment? That's one possibility. 

Or we could say that there is good art and bad art, and that most junk we see is art, but it's bad art. 

Here's a qualification I find interesting: does a work of art reveal us to ourselves, as good Freudian therapy is said to do, or does it serve to cover us over with increased misunderstanding, in a kind of reverse psychotherapy, as most TV shows do?
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#3
RE: Are videogames art?
What could be considered art is of pure subjectivity.
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#4
RE: Are videogames art?
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#5
RE: Are videogames art?
If I'm not mistaken, the U.S. supreme court considers them art. That's good enough for me.
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#6
RE: Are videogames art?
Well yeah, of course. I think any descriptions you could give of "art" would apply to videogames.
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- Thomas Jefferson
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#7
RE: Are videogames art?
err..... No!
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RE: Are videogames art?
(November 7, 2018 at 10:41 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: err.....      No!

Why not?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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#9
RE: Are videogames art?
Have you played Finding Paradise? That right there would be an answer.
The word bed actually looks like a bed. 
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#10
RE: Are videogames art?
Depends on the game.

No Man's Sky: No

Horizon Zero Dawn: Yes

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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