The US government recognizes games as an art form

[Gnac]

Khuutra said:

Gnac said:

It's interactive media, which just happens to require artistic processes in its creation. The end result is a product which is intended for mass consumption. To call that something so rare as art just feeds the egos of fools.

The rejection of craft or experience as art is self-aggrandizing manure, solely the product of people who need to justify degrees which only really qualify them to talk to each other about their degrees. "Art" is not scarce, though it is special; it is not rare, though it is to be valued.

I agree, there are true craftsmen in this industry, and they are not half as vocal about their achievements as the fameseekers. I am no academic, so I am not really qualified to state what is art, but my experience as a gamer makes me pretty sure that the classification is not a positive one.

Also: I'm not gonna make the mistake of confusing rare and special again, heh.