Are video games art?

[JWIlls23]

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There is one video game that I am really excited for. It is called Valiant Hearts. I love history especially military history. What do you think? Do you think video games are a legitimate art form? Do you think that they are an form of entertainment that is only for children? I believe video games as well as animated movies and comic books have grown up and do not deserve to be treated as something that is only for children.

[Philly]

Hideo Kojima said that they cannot be both art and functional as video games. To make a game art, he said, he would have to create a game that you could not play.

[Professor]

Interesting. Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear host) said the same thing. Art cannot be functional. A few years ago, BMW came out with an "Art Car". But, because it was a functional car, it couldn't be "art".

[The Comrade]

[The Comrade]

art can be functional. that would make architecture, pottery, and things like it non-art, which is idiotic.

[Philly]

[Spider]

[Philly]

Kojima went on to say that "Art is something that radiates the artist," arguing that "If 100 people walk by and a single person is captivated by whatever that piece radiates, it's art.

"But videogames aren't trying to capture one person. A videogame should make sure that all 100 people that play that game should enjoy the service provided by that videogame. It's something of a service. It's not art. But I guess the way of providing service with that videogame is an artistic style, a form of art."

Kojima went on to discuss the nature of interactivity, using the example of concept cars. "You don't have to be able to drive a car, but if it's called a car and it has artistic elements in the visuals, then it's art.

"But an actual car, like a videogame, is interactive, so it's something used by people, so it's like a car where you have to drive it. There are 100 people driving a car; they have 100 ways of driving it and using it. It could be families driving the car. It could be a couple driving a car. The owner of the car could be driving along the coastline or they could go up into the mountains, so this car has to be able to be driven by all 100 of these people, so in that sense, it's totally not art."


Gibberish I know.

[The Comrade]

[Professor]