Re: Games as art (WAS Re: Video Games at Public Libraries?)

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From: Andrew Plotkin
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:53

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In rec.games.video.sony Sean Howard <how...@mailer.fsu.edu> wrote:

> Surely, you jest. Of course games are art.  Art is any creative act that
> furthers neither of man's two basic needs: survival and reproduction. I
> could crumple up a piece of paper, spray paint it gold, and then leave it
> in a toilet, and it would be art.  You might not get it, but it's art.
> Heck, there doesn't even need to be something to "get" for it to be art.

It is terribly important to remember: it doesn't have to be *good* for
it to be art.

--Z

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