See, the games community has it backwards: the point is not to “legitimize” games as art, whatever that would mean. The point is not to shoehorn games into some received, stable, agreed upon notion of what art is, as if there is such a notion. The point is to ask the question, what do videogames do to art? How do they change art, turning it into something new? It’s encouraging that the NEA has invited us to consider this question. But its answers are hardly a foregone conclusion.
Ian Bogost – What do Videogames do to Art? In response to the recent announcement that the NEA will be offering funding to game-makers. (via dinosaurparty)