30th November 2005, 8:49 AM
Requires creative perception both by the artist and by the audience
Elusive (as in "tending to evade cut-and-dried definitions or being fixedly grasped")
Communicates on many levels and is open to many interpretations
Connotes a sense of ability
Interplay between the conscious and unconscious mind, between what is real and what is an illusion
May contain an idea other than its utilitarian purpose.
Created with the intention to be experienced as art
Displays different forms of captivating beauty or intrigue.
Here are the current characteristics listed for what "art" is. Very concice and I can't really argue with it, except for the "created with the intention to be experienced as art" issue, which runs into the same problems I listed above. Far too many people would take issue with such a thing. After all, a sunset can easily have a deeper meaning applied to it by us humans, and interpreted as a microcosm of something, or a macrocosm.
But, note this. With all these characteristics listed by wiki, video games are not once excluded from the definition. In fact, the majority of games in general are not excluded. Pong = Art However, this isn't new. Just as martial arts or dance can be considered art, some have stated a good game of "the football" is poetry in motion. If sports can be art, why can't games?
In all cases, it can't be art unless there is someone to experience it as art. It may also be that someone has to have intelligently designed it to begin with to be art.
Anyway, it's narrowed down further I think. I will say this. I have yet to see a single definition that excludes video games. Thus, I must say from everything I've seen, video games aren't just an emerging art form, they have emerged and have always been art.
Elusive (as in "tending to evade cut-and-dried definitions or being fixedly grasped")
Communicates on many levels and is open to many interpretations
Connotes a sense of ability
Interplay between the conscious and unconscious mind, between what is real and what is an illusion
May contain an idea other than its utilitarian purpose.
Created with the intention to be experienced as art
Displays different forms of captivating beauty or intrigue.
Here are the current characteristics listed for what "art" is. Very concice and I can't really argue with it, except for the "created with the intention to be experienced as art" issue, which runs into the same problems I listed above. Far too many people would take issue with such a thing. After all, a sunset can easily have a deeper meaning applied to it by us humans, and interpreted as a microcosm of something, or a macrocosm.
But, note this. With all these characteristics listed by wiki, video games are not once excluded from the definition. In fact, the majority of games in general are not excluded. Pong = Art However, this isn't new. Just as martial arts or dance can be considered art, some have stated a good game of "the football" is poetry in motion. If sports can be art, why can't games?
In all cases, it can't be art unless there is someone to experience it as art. It may also be that someone has to have intelligently designed it to begin with to be art.
Anyway, it's narrowed down further I think. I will say this. I have yet to see a single definition that excludes video games. Thus, I must say from everything I've seen, video games aren't just an emerging art form, they have emerged and have always been art.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)