...at New York City yesterday. It was good. I saw many interesting, colorful, sad, disturbing, wierd, and funny pieces of artwork and exhibits. But me cruising though a famous gallery isn't exactly the point of this thread.

I came across one "digital" exhibit that featured a video game. It was a screen that was showing a game of Counter-Strike. The screen showed a video of a guy basically playing an online game (It was sort of like a trailer where the player go on different levels and play.) Anyway, it took me awhile to understand why an popular MP game is featured in an art show. The player used the CS graffiti option to portray "counter-military" pictures and such. Here's the website:

http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/

Anyway, CS is good or bad is not what I want to know. But do you think video games can or are becoming a new "medium" of art or self-expression (like video and sound)? I'm not exactly saying if a game looks visually good and has good graphics, it is "art" (but it does take artist to do that.) But can an artist portray certain meaning or value by using video games like he or she does with video clips or sound recording?

Here is another artise whos video game work was featured:

http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/

It wasn't playable (obvious, no touching work in museum) but it was quite artistic in a way (depends on point of view).

Thoughts?

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What a loser. I mean seriously people, come on...

It's like those people that splatter paint everywhere and put random pieces of paper on a board and OMG IT'S ART! Then they sell this "art" for thousands of dollars. How do these people get famous? They sit and scribble and splatter things around..and they make money!!! Same with the videogame art. The kid got 3 copyrighted images, put them on a poster and BAM, $19.95. It isn't art, it's a scam.

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[This message has been edited by SAJN_Master (edited May 23, 2004).]

Well i'd say games definately are... the amount of creativity involved in making mods/levels/whatever is high, most the stuff you design will have some sort of self-expression in it, ever since the designs of the first games. Its the same as anybody who designs and creates anything.

Well, thats my thoughts on it anyway.

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