Tag: VIDEOGAMEART

When cataclysmic events occur and human lives are lost, observers inevitably wonder how a supreme being could allow such terrible circumstances to happen to undeserving innocents. Well, those events apparently take place because He/She/It (depending upon your persuasion) is an avid gamer who has been tragically corrupted by poisonous video game violence. A piece by artist Vadim Fishkin seems ...

Share Roger Ebert, both a cinema icon and a tech pioneer, sparked a recent firestorm of debate when he asserted, "Video games can never be art." Inspired by an ensuing reader response, Ebert watched a presentation from video game designer Kellee Santiago, and the two subsequently embarked on an entertaining, enlightened discourse (on Ebert's part, anyway). Snooty art house nerds and devoted ...

Share So, this video game designer named Kellee Santiago recently gave a TED talk in which she argued that video games are art. Shortly thereafter, film critic and generally awesome dude Roger Ebert responded that video games can never be art. Those are some strong words coming from Ebert, but he does have a pretty decent argument to back up his stance. Of course, being the art-loving game ...

Tired of defending the artistic worth of video games to your parents, spouse, or wine and cheese crowd friends? Well, the folks at Cracked.com have done the work for you and compiled a list of 10 games that should be considered modern art. While the list contains some expected popular choices, such as the 'Fallout' series and 'Shadow of the Colossus,' it also delves into the somewhat obscure to ...

The pixel, a humble little square of on-screen color, is the building block for all the classic video-game characters ever made, whether they be stumpy like Mario, or curvaceous and less mustachioed like Lara Croft. If you think of video games as huge, sweeping mosaics of these miniscule little squares, then Dutch artist Arno Coenen's artwork doesn't seem so strange. Coenen uses tiles like the ...