How can anyone say video games are not art? Considering people actually have to create those environments. It's not exactly drawing, but it is creating something from the imagination. Imagination is the key word here. That's what makes it art.
How can anyone say video games are not art? Considering people actually have to create those environments. It's not exactly drawing, but it is creating something from the imagination. Imagination is the key word here. That's what makes it art.
Individual parts of a video may be art but the whole is not always art. Just like putting many meals in one big bowl doesn't make another meal, it make a mess.
I think that, first and foremost, video games is a medium. 95% of the time, it is use to transmit entertainement and there is nothing wrong with that. However, video games, in rare occasion are arts. How can you tell? Well, an artist use art to express something. So to be considered art, a game have to be an expression of something coming from it's creator.
Civilization is not art because the programmers that code it didn't wanted to express their tough about conquering the world, they just wanted it to be fun.
On the other hand, Legend of Zelda is art because Miyamoto, the creator, wanted to recreate the amazement of his youth when he found a big lake at the top of a mountain.
People also created the anchor desk and studio environment of local news shows on broadcast TV. They conceived the concept with an eye towards aesthetics. Still, I dont think of TV news studio interior design as art, so I dont think that either aesthetics or imagination can be considered litmus tests for what comprises art, although I hasten to ad that art is at least aware of those elements.
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