“Art”

In the text “Art” by Ian Bogost, he poses the question “Are videogames art?” He brings up avant-garde to further explain that the definition of art may be different for everyone. He explained that artists re-imagined what came before them and some made art that was completely the opposite to the norm. He states that art once had one monolithic view. He emphasizes that the point of creating art is to express and reinvent ideas or beliefs. I agree with this statement because art can just be a form in which someone can communicate their emotions or thoughts. Art does not necessarily have to be a painting or a sculpture. A video game can be art because it can be considered a pixelated form of expression. It allows the creator to use their imagination and put it together and create something visual. He talks about other games like “Braid” and “Passage” as examples of an abstract memento mori and how these types of games rely primarily on computational rules to produce their artistic meaning. It allows the players interaction to create meaning.