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Title: Vote for Smithsonian video game art exhibit
Post by: RayB on February 23, 2011, 01:28:43 pm

http://www.artofvideogames.org/ (http://www.artofvideogames.org/)

Title: Re: Vote for Smithsonian video game art exhibit
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 28, 2011, 01:28:36 am
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so be sure to vote for games that you think are visually spectacular or boast innovative design!

In other words be sure to vote for a bunch of crappy games which totally misses the point of a video game art exhibition considering the gameplay is as much of the art as the visuals. 

I appreciate the link, I'm just saying... the Smithsonian just doesn't get it.
Title: Re: Vote for Smithsonian video game art exhibit
Post by: RayB on February 28, 2011, 02:29:37 pm
I agree. I sent them an email about how ignoring arcade games pretty much invalidates the whole "art" exhibit, since arcade games are where the real innovation and techniques were established.
Title: Re: Vote for Smithsonian video game art exhibit
Post by: SavannahLion on February 28, 2011, 03:37:56 pm
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so be sure to vote for games that you think are visually spectacular or boast innovative design!

In other words be sure to vote for a bunch of crappy games which totally misses the point of a video game art exhibition considering the gameplay is as much of the art as the visuals. 

I appreciate the link, I'm just saying... the Smithsonian just doesn't get it.

Huh? I had to read that over a couple of times to grasp what they wanted.

Probably set up by an archivist that knows nothing about games that was convinced to do so by a apprentice that still lives in his basement with mommy and has done nothing but play console games all day.

Same thing happened at my old job where a student convinced everyone to dump the entire digital archives into  the "cloud". Good idea on maintenance but retrieval and ownership is a ---smurfette---.
Title: Re: Vote for Smithsonian video game art exhibit
Post by: Gray_Area on February 28, 2011, 06:01:14 pm
You have to register to even see the games. I don't think so.