{"id":26616,"date":"2016-08-08T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/towards-an-art-history-for-videogames\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T20:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:44:47","slug":"towards-an-art-history-for-videogames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/towards-an-art-history-for-videogames\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards an Art History for Videogames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/rhizome.org\/editorial\/2016\/aug\/03\/an-art-history-for-videogames\/'>Towards an Art History for Videogames<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is a lesser-known history of the games themselves. By this I mean a more intimate account composed of a long heritage of games deliberately concerned with the artistic, political and personal. For these, the term \u201cartgame\u201d2 comes in handy. This term refers to videogames intended to provoke artistic ideas but still be understood contextually as games. The \u201cartgame\u201d stands in important contrast to \u201cgame art,\u201d which is usually produced by conceptual artists and aims to treat games not as a form unto themselves but as raw material for new works. The line between the two, however, can and does blur. It\u2019s sometimes unclear whether or not a given piece of digital art is intended to be read as a \u201cgame\u201d or as \u201cgame-based conceptual art,\u201d and I would argue that as games and art converge to insist on an unassailable distinction between the two is to engage in futile pedantry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Compare with John Sharp\u2019s early idea of\u00a0\u201cworks of game\u201d as appropriate to a Ludic Age, and his reimagination of\u00a0\u201cartist games\u201d therein : <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/works-game\">Sharp. Works of Game. MIT Press. 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and with Brian\u00a0Schrank\u2019s attempt to map out a relationship with the Avant-garde in the visual arts of the 20th century : <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/avant-garde-videogames\">Schrank. Avant-garde Videogames. MIT Press. 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards an Art History for Videogames There is a lesser-known history of the games themselves. By this I mean a more intimate account composed of a long heritage of games deliberately concerned with the artistic, political and personal. For these, the term \u201cartgame\u201d2 comes in handy. This term refers to videogames intended to provoke artistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[101,273,193,1518,463],"class_list":["post-26616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","tag-art","tag-art-history","tag-game","tag-video-game","tag-videogame","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Vi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}