Video Games and Art (Video Games AS Art) (and so on)

any action taken on the field is always and primarily for the purposes of winning and not aesthetics seems insurmountable to me

well yes, everyone knows that Tebow is art

I mean:

http://www.imagecpr.com/imagecpr.com%20uploads/2012/09/TEBOW-HELMET.gif

was just trying to find that gif!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z326cvKjdUA/T6MKSgOiadI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/-4F1DR8j3yY/s1600/brushing+the+dirt.jpg

let's set aside what you think i meant by "on the field"

but really, don't, because, do you think tebow is praying because it looks good? or is he praying to win.

well strictly speaking he is giving thanks to his Lord and Savior for making a spectacular garbage play successful

Does Jordan sticking his tongue out provide extra lift for his layup and dunks?

I think winning as a motivator is much less of a barrier than money as a motivator in terms of negating aesthetic agency.

Like in that time punch art piece, if that artist was actually working a job where he was paid to punch a clock, that would have destroyed the thing. He'd just be working a job at that point.

http://thecitizenkaneofvideogames.tumblr.com/

hahaha

http://images.crispygamer.com/public/column-2288/kanethegame.jpg

http://bubsy3d.com/

flippin over how great this is

Yeah this is pretty wonderful. On a side note, isn't the 3D Bubsy supposed to be one of the worst games of all time?

that was awesome

http://0.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/81/77/43361f45c29abdf0a2e713872c3237ec-creative-xbox-live-private-messages.jpg

probably a better place to put that than here but eh

I don't believe that's a real XBL message, since it doesn't contain racial slurs or homophobic insults.

Zone Recreation

http://hyperallergic.com/195863/a-video-game-lets-you-navigate-giorgio-de-chiricos-surreal-cityscapes/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xHqjSterB4

https://www.behance.net/gallery/63535513/300-Super-Nintendo-Logos-Fully-Remastered

holy cow woulda look at that

Making vector replicas of display type used to be my crack. I developed an entire typeface based on the Tron logo back in the day.

that's awesome

(Should mention I created the Tron font exclusively for use on a flyer for a college radio show that like four people listened to. It was a good use of my time.)

I'm preordering this thing: https://www.amazon.com/Game-Console-History-Photographs/dp/1593277431

Also highly recommend the Art of Atari book that came out a year or so ago.

oh hey another design student figured out the Adobe Illustrator Trace function

Now, now. Perhaps it's come a long way in recent versions but my recollection is that 'trace' isn't really all that. It involves some work to overcome Adobe's apparent insistence that a copy of a straight line should have 52 anchor points.

yeah its a little more complicated than that. im just being snarky (the Batman Return one in partic looks like he just hit trace and export). still, foregoing all that you could turn on the pen tool and trace one of these logos by hand in like 5 mins.

i like this

https://en.softonic.com/articles/gta-5-gun-violence-in-america

recent V&A videogames exhibition:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/videogames

specifically this magritte:

https://vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2018/04/06/08/26/58/28b0a0aa-5329-4a00-8e26-c12d6ddaef5f/960.jpg

vs this (kentucky route zero)

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/04/06/09/va-videogames-kentucky-route-z-0.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70