{"id":31051,"date":"2011-05-27T14:53:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/most-modern-theories-of-art-hold-that-all-forms-of\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T14:53:50","slug":"most-modern-theories-of-art-hold-that-all-forms-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/most-modern-theories-of-art-hold-that-all-forms-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most modern theories of art hold that all forms of art and all media are interactive, that there is an implicit conversation between any audience (despite the original roots of the word in just \u201clistening\u201d) and any creator \u2014 that the act of interpreting the work even in the most shallow way means that there is a collaborative construction of the work. So I don\u2019t actually hold with the idea that games are somehow special in that regard. They are more interactive than many. But frankly, they are less interactive than many forms of performance art. A concert where the audience sings back unpredictable stuff, or a comedy show being heckled, are arguably *more* interactive than a game. That leads me to conclude that Jason, through his surrender of authorial intent, is actually imposing authorial intent. \u201cAsserting what he feels is valuable about the project\u201d is exactly expressing authorial intent, and is in fact often the worst-regarded form of it in many art circles: telling the audience HOW they are \u201cproperly\u201d supposed to enjoy the art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/2011\/03\/16\/art-game-thoughts-re-chain-world\/\">Raph&rsquo;s Website \u00bb Art game thoughts re Chain World<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quote if from a particularly rich post by Koster, and I do it an injustice by extracting from it. Go, now, read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most modern theories of art hold that all forms of art and all media are interactive, that there is an implicit conversation between any audience (despite the original roots of the word in just \u201clistening\u201d) and any creator \u2014 that the act of interpreting the work even in the most shallow way means that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-84P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31051","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=31051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}