When ever we play video games most of the time we dont consider the art of the game. Sometimes an artist will add something hidden or Express him/herself with the game. Are video games art to you?
The newest vlogbrothers video with Hank has him answering (or not, as the case may be) this very question.
"I don't fin the conversation about whether video games are art to be particularly interesting. It requires there to be a definition of art that everyone in the world would accept and I don't accept that precept."
Which I sort of agree with, because the larger question would be "What is Art?" and it's not something we (humanity) are fully equipped to answer yet. Perhaps someday we will come to an agreement as to what constitutes art, but so far, every definition is subjective to a particular point of view.
I believe, they are. Look at the Call of Duty series - they look just alike some "Black Hawk Down" movie, and even better, because you can take a M16 and shoot the *******s as you want. Remember, also, the "Heavy Rain", which is, actually, better that some movies. And look at the credits of every game - there are a lot of people, working. you have to invent something, when you making a videogame. Well, it's messy, but that's what I think of it.
I think it's all art technically. But some of it is really good art, and some of it is just entertainment.
Call of duty. It has a story, but really, it's just a gun game. But Bioshock, it created a world, characters, an epic story, and all kinds of Lore. That's Art.
It's just like how every movie is art, but your typical Adam Sandler movie, how ever good it may be, isn't as arty as movies like fight club.
Which I sort of agree with, because the larger question would be "What is Art?" and it's not something we (humanity) are fully equipped to answer yet. Perhaps someday we will come to an agreement as to what constitutes art, but so far, every definition is subjective to a particular point of view.
This argument is circling around; questions more the very intrinsic nature of art than video game's relations to that nature. Of course, art is in the eye of ye who sees; arbitrary judging is where it's at, and thus this question can only be answered individually ( at least for now since there's no real concrete universal defintion of what's art ).
Your purport is more about if this is meaningful or not isn't it?
Of course, art is in the eye of ye who sees; arbitrary judging is where it's at, and thus this question can only be answered individually ( at least for now since there's no real concrete universal defintion of what's art ).
Which is exactly what I meant. There is no universal answer, but that doesn't make it necessarily more difficult for me as an individual to make an opinion. My point was simply that there is no way to define art universally. And forgive me, but I'm not particularly interested in personal opinions when they are this varied.
Then again, this topic did pose only the question of is it art to me, specifically. I suppose my post was a bit off topic in that respect, since it concerned with art in general, rather than the individual perspective.
Your purport is more about if this is meaningful or not isn't it?
Not really. My personal belief is that video games are art, but I find it hard to apply that to every video game, just as I find it hard to apply the label art to every painting or sculpture I come across. (For the longest time I was convinced that Jackson Pollock's paintings were a waste of good paint, until I chanced upon an original in a museum. I fell in love with it immediately and inexplicably, which changed my opinion on Pollock's art and slightly more broadly, in that I'm no longer sure of my own (non)expertise in defining art subjectively.)
In broader terms, I agree with Justice Scalia.
Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas â" and even social messages â" through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the playerâs interaction with the virtual world). That suffices to confer First Amendment protection.
In subjective terms, I am unsure as to whether this definition can be applied globally in terms of video games.
Yes it is art, but just like anything else, there are the sell-out crap ones out there, which reflects no art, no thinking, no emotions but pure fake sense of constant entertainment.
Shadow of the Colossus is the only game I can think of that truly is art. The beautiful landscapes, the touching story, the music... that's what a game should be about, a story to tell. Not shooting a random person in the back of the knee.
