The Art of Video Games

[Kjell]

The Art of Video Games is one of the first exhibitions to explore the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies.

http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/

Some peculiar picks .. and no Jet Set Radio?

[Michaël Samyn]

It's like making an exhibition called "The Art of Cinema" and having Star Wars, Die Hard and Grease but nothing by Godard, Bergman or Pasolini. Very liberal, indeed. 

[Michaël Samyn]

Maybe they should have called it "The Pop Art of Video Games".

[Michaël Samyn]

And the three commercial games that got closed to anything artistic (Ico, Black & White and Silent Hill 2) are not even in the list.

[Michaël Samyn]

Nor is Noby Noby Boy.

[Albin Bernhardsson]

It's like making an exhibition called "The Art of Cinema" and having Star Wars, Die Hard and Grease but nothing by Godard, Bergman or Pasolini. Very liberal, indeed. 

And this is why you don't let the Internet vote forth the most artistic anything (especially not the gamer community). It tends to confuse good entertainment with good art. Sure, Super Mario may be great for what it is, but what it is isn't art.

[ghostwheel]

I like Bergman but pretentious and obtuse doesn't mean artistic. And Shakespeare wrote populist entertainment. Ever see Titus Andronicus?

[Michaël Samyn]

Well, if we're discussing taste, then I can safely say that I prefer Bergman over Shakespeare.

[Michaël Samyn]

It's like making an exhibition called "The Art of Cinema" and having Star Wars, Die Hard and Grease but nothing by Godard, Bergman or Pasolini. Very liberal, indeed. 

And this is why you don't let the Internet vote forth the most artistic anything (especially not the gamer community). It tends to confuse good entertainment with good art. Sure, Super Mario may be great for what it is, but what it is isn't art.

Indeed. It was a fine idea. Whatever. Just change the title.