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Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Art of Video Games

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morgora

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#1
May 7, 2011
Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Art of Video Games

If anyone is interested, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will be having a video game exhibit next year (March 16, 2012 – September 30, 2012). They have a list of games that will be included in the exhibit on their website.http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/Edit: Added name of exhibit in title.
 
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GuyNwah

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#2
May 9, 2011
Morgora said:
If anyone is interested, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will be having a video game exhibit next year (March 16, 2012 – September 30, 2012). They have a list of games that will be included in the exhibit on their website.http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/
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Bumping this deserving announcement :) You can find a detailed list of the games on exhibit here: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/winninggames.pdfI see one very important and very topical omission (which, since the exhibited games were selected by public vote, was probably inevitable). There is no mention of the Fairchild "Channel F" (1976), which pioneered the use of the game cartridge, nor of the inventor of the game cartridge, Jerry Lawson. Jerry Lawson died last month, age 70.Also, there is the unfortunate matter of Bethesda Softworks being given credit in the list for the original Fallout, but we all know better, don't we?
 
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morgora

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May 9, 2011
Thanks for the bump! :)I remember there being a list of choices but, I don't remember if there were free-form entry options. The sad part is that I had told some friends about the vote. Then, I missed the deadline to vote. :(
 
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Seeker.217

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#4
May 10, 2011
Just gose to show you that we as gamer see games as Art when the rest of the world did not at the time. sometime it nice being ahead of the curve don't you think *winks*
 
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GuyNwah

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#5
May 10, 2011
Seeker said:
Just gose to show you that we as gamer see games as Art when the rest of the world did not at the time. sometime it nice being ahead of the curve don't you think *winks*
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There are still some bloody-minded critics who refuse to concede that games can be art. Roger Ebert is the nastiest of them.To which I have only one word to say: Syberia.
 
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Seeker.217

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#6
May 11, 2011
[quote Guy N'wah linkThere are still some bloody-minded critics who refuse to concede that games can be art. Roger Ebert is the nastiest of them.To which I have only one word to say: Syberia.[/QUOTE]well to tell you the truth he backed pedal on that he turned around and said ed that games may be art One dayhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/jul/01/roger-ebert-games-art and to tell you the truth there was a time even Opera and Movies where in the same kind of boat as games are today and it did not change till the old guard of that time pass on and newer critics took there place
 
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Licaon_Kter

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May 11, 2011
Seeker said:
well to tell you the truth he backed pedal on that he turned around and said ed that games may be art One dayhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/jul/01/roger-ebert-games-art
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right, right, such valued opinion, but FFS he commented on a game without PLAYING one, just seeing some footage from a game like a movie. like WTF, that's like me saying that movies are not art because a friend of mine narrated Citizen Kane after seeing it and it sounded awful.
 
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GuyNwah

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May 11, 2011
LicaonKter said:
LicaonKter said:
well to tell you the truth he backed pedal on that he turned around and said ed that games may be art One dayhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/jul/01/roger-ebert-games-art
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right, right, such valued opinion, but FFS he commented on a game without PLAYING one, just seeing some footage from a game like a movie. like WTF, that's like me saying that movies are not art because a friend of mine narrated Citizen Kane after seeing it and it sounded awful.
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Ebert also, notoriously, backstabbed Kelley Santiago after her presentation at TED. Here's Ebert on whether games might be art "one day"; he most certainly has not backpedaled and will die before budging an inch:"Nevertheless, I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say 'never,' because never, as Rick Wakeman informs us, is a long, long time. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form."In the July 2010 blog, where he is said to have backpedaled, he did nothing of the kind. What he did was to damn, carefully and calculatedly, the artistic values of anyone who might claim to have experienced art in a game, "I had to be prepared to agree that gamers can have an experience that, for them, is Art. I don't know what they can learn about another human being that way, no matter how much they learn about Human Nature. I don't know if they can be inspired to transcend themselves. Perhaps they can. How can I say? I may be wrong. but if I'm not willing to play a video game to find that out, I should say so."Since the rest of the world no longer cares what Roger Ebert thinks, maybe we should just let him stew in his own venom.
 
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