Join us on Wednesday, November 1st for a chat with on the subject of games and art with Henry Jenkins, Jesper Juul, Marc LeBlanc, and Eric Zimmerman.<\/p>\n
Network:<\/strong> irc.freenode.net See our page on how to get on IRC.<\/a><\/p>\n More About the Topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hideo Kojima says “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.”<\/p>\n And Roger Ebert says “To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers… for most gamers, video games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic.”<\/p>\n Contrariwise, Henry Jenkins says “Computer games are art?a popular art, an emerging art, a largely unrecognized art, but art nevertheless… The time has come to take games seriously as an important new popular art shaping the aesthetic sensibility of the 21st century.”<\/p>\n Are games art? If not, why not? And if so, why? Is thinking of games as art useful or actually a hindrance for game developers? If games are art, what should our aspirations for the form be?<\/p>\n Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n Henry Jenkins<\/a> is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and\/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including the recently published Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jesper Juul<\/a> is a video game theorist and an Assistant Professor in video game theory and design at the Center for Computer Game Research Copenhagen. He is author of Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds<\/a> and numerous articles about games, and his prestigious and influential blog is The Ludologist<\/a>.<\/p>\n Marc LeBlanc<\/a> is a twelve-year veteran of the game industry. At Looking Glass Studios, he was a core contributor to several award-winning games, including the Thief<\/em> and System Shock<\/em> series. In collaboration with Andrew Leker, he developed Oasis<\/a>, the 2004 Independent Games Festival Game of the Year in the web\/downloadable category.<\/p>\n Santiago Siri<\/a> is an Argentinean game designer whose work includes Football Deluxe<\/a> and Utopia (forthcoming). He works for Three Melons<\/a>, an advergaming firm that offers innovative branding through games. He is also a writer and theoretician, and his blog, Games as Art<\/a>, is a resource for all members of the game community.<\/p>\n Eric Zimmerman<\/a> is a game designer and academic exploring the theory and practice of game design. He is the is the co-founder and CEO of gameLab<\/a>, a game development company based in New York City. He is the co-editor of several works in the field, including Rules of Play,<\/a> a seminal study of game design technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Join us on Wednesday, November 1st for a chat with on the subject of games and art with Henry Jenkins, Jesper Juul, Marc LeBlanc, and Eric Zimmerman. Network: irc.freenode.net Channel: #gamesandart Time: 6PM PST, 9PM EST, 2 AM GMT See our page on how to get on IRC. More About the Topic: Hideo Kojima says … Continue reading “Games as Art: IRC Discussion on Wednesday November 1st”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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