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Who cares
Sep 4, 2006, 22:45
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Who cares Sep 4, 2006, 22:45
Sep 4, 2006, 22:45
 
Why is entertainment such a dirty word? It isn't ok just to create entertainment you have to be creating ART! In a couple hundred years nobody is going to have a gallery with Half Life 2 on demo mode in it. Sure it takes some creativity and a lot of hard work but so do a lot of things.

I guess game designers just want to know if it's ok to be snobby and pretentious, and start putting their names before the game titles... Oops too late, better start calling it art then!

Then again, with some of the things I've seen in museums they might as well call it art. That just proves how arbitrary the label is in the first place, though.

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Re: Who cares
Sep 4, 2006, 23:48
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Re: Who cares Sep 4, 2006, 23:48
Sep 4, 2006, 23:48
 
Then again, with some of the things I've seen in museums they might as well call it art
'Head On' http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008905.php
most interesting sarcastic comment:
"It's an ad for a firewall."
That would be a Great ad for a firewall!

Marginally related to topic - the art gallery scene in the woody allen movie Play It Again Sam:
allen, trying to pick up girl: It's a lovely Jackson Pollock.
girl: Yes, it is.
allen: What does it say to you?
girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos.
allen: What are you doing Saturday?
girl: Committing suicide.
allen: What about Friday night?

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Re: Who cares
Sep 5, 2006, 00:08
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Re: Who cares Sep 5, 2006, 00:08
Sep 5, 2006, 00:08
 

LMAO!! Thanks for dredging up a very fond old memory, FP

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Re: Who cares
Sep 5, 2006, 01:26
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Re: Who cares Sep 5, 2006, 01:26
Sep 5, 2006, 01:26
 
The one line I liked about the art video game debate remarked something like how computer games weren't art because they relied on the audiences participation as opposed to 'art' which relied on the creators control to deliver the message.

Yet one thing bugged me about that.

If you have the worlds greatest painting/sculpture/play delivering the most important message of all time and no one sees it or talks about it. Is it still art? If the answer would be no, then isn't the aspect of audience participation a crucial non-bypass-able requirement.

Then wouldn't that mean, much to the chagrin of some, that computer games are in fact art. Just a much different form of it.

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