Are Videogames Art?

[scottie]

Short answer: Yes

Long answer - it's a kind of grey area.

Whilst some music is clearly art, as are some movies, it seems that some of each of these are mere entertainment for the masses. But then again, in his day, Shakespeare was lowest common denominator entertainment for the masses, and now it's considered high art.

So that in my mind answers the art/entertainment issue with a resounding victory for 'games are art'

But then we also have to consider the art or science debate. But it sems that if we describe video games as a science simply because they follow laws of logic and the like. But once again it's a grey area, as once you get to a high enough level, physics and maths start becoming art really. But if we said that video games weren't art, we would also have to say that electronica and photography are not art