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PoV: Recognition long overdue - games now art |
Listed in: PS3, MMORPG, Nintendo DS, PC Gaming Tags: nea, roger ebert
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) of the US had recently declared video games as an eligible art form, having met their new grant application guidelines.
The additional requirement for NEA, which nicely fit in video games in the art category, would be "Arts in Media". This states that:
"All available media platforms such as the Internet, interactive and mobile technologies, digital games, arts content delivered via satellite, as well as on radio and television," are from hereon out to be recgonized as an art form.
On top of this, the NEA also are giving grants reaching up to US$ 200,000 for those works of art, or those that are about to arts, to support the artist.
Overall, this is definitely great news for the industry. Also, it does well for the arts scene to expand their definition of what is art, considering that a whole lot of other forms are coming up in this digital age.
Part of forwarding the culture of art is to be open to the fast-changing technology that allows for other modes of creativity to surface. Most certainly, video games is one such avenue, and it makes little sense to box it up in a league away from the arts simply under the notion that it's only a game.
It takes just as much creativity and dedication to the craft as with any other painting or sculpture or music, so really, it's about time video games be given the recognition it deserves.
As much as I love and respect Roger Ebert for his critiques on films, I am so glad this is one point he's been proven wrong. It escapes my mind how he could have been so narrow-minded regarding video games being considered as art, when films themselves were also ostracized by the arts industry when it was first starting out.
Considering that the history of film and video games are not all that different, in terms of the hurdles they had to go through to be recognized as a credible medium of the arts, he should have at least been more welcoming to the idea that digital games - no matter how childish/ childlike they may appear in form - do have more to offer than mindless entertainment.
This is definitely a huge score for all video games out there. Kudos to NEA for recognizing this shift in media!
Via [Shacknews]
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Comments
All they do is give out grants with the money they collect. Which is good, don't get me wrong. But just because they say something doesn't mean the world should listen. Well, the same goes with anything really. My point being, they speak only for themselves, not "The People".
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