Presentation on games as art askov august 2011

Jonas Heide Smith (jonassmith.dk) You call that... art? Askov Højskole, 31. august 2011fredag den 2. september 2011

SPACEWAR, 1962 DEC PDP-1fredag den 2. september 2011

“Reliably, at any nighttime moment (i.e. non-business hours) in North America hundreds of computer technicians are effectively out of their bodies, locked in life-or-Death space combat computer-projected onto cathode ray tube display screens, for hours at a time, ruining SPACEWAR, 1962 their eyes, numbing their ﬁngers in frenzied mashing of control buttons, joyously slaying their friend and wasting their employers valuable computer time. Something basic is going on.” - Stewart Brand, Rolling Stone Magazine, december 1972 DEC PDP-1fredag den 2. september 2011

SPACEWAR, 1962 SPACE INVADERS, 1978 PAC-MAN, 1980 GUN FIGHT, 1975 MISSILE COMMAND, 1980fredag den 2. september 2011

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DEATH RACE (1976)fredag den 2. september 2011

CARMAGEDDON (1997)fredag den 2. september 2011

MORTAL KOMBAT, 1992 NIGHT TRAP, 1992fredag den 2. september 2011

“These games are not harmless fun, as some suggest...They are, in fact, digital poison.” FORMER DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR THE VICE PRECIDENCY JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (1997)fredag den 2. september 2011

“Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them...This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it’s okay to diss people because they are a woman, they’re a different colour or they’re from a different place.” MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HILLARY CLINTON (2005)fredag den 2. september 2011

“Of course it’s true that young people buy their way to excitement by playing the machines. But to my eye, that is a fairly peaceful way, compared to other imaginable ways of creating excitement.” FORMER MINISTER OF JUSTICE OLE ESPERSEN (1982)fredag den 2. september 2011

DOOM II (1994)fredag den 2. september 2011

“The problem with DOOM is that it creates an unconscious emotional reaction patter that you bring into your everyday life and which appears to linger for a long time, until you become conscious of it through self-analysis and stop playing.” JAN ESMANN (1995)fredag den 2. september 2011

“The children resemble a group of scientist who collaboratively explore a new universe, develop hypotheses and test them. [...] children actually waste incredible amounts of time in the traditional school system.” CULTURE RESEARCHER CARSTEN JESSEN (1994)fredag den 2. september 2011

MYST (1993)fredag den 2. september 2011

BLACKOUT (1997)fredag den 2. september 2011

HEAVY RAIN (2010)fredag den 2. september 2011

“I think the real indicator [that games have become a storytelling art form] will be when somebody confesses that they cried at level 17.” STEVEN SPIELBERG (2006)fredag den 2. september 2011

“Games differ from funding-entitled art forms, since they are more about movement and action than about language.” (in email) FORMER SPOKESPERSON ON CULTURAL AFFAIRS (K) CARINA CHRISTENSEN (2002)fredag den 2. september 2011

UNCHARTED 2 (2009)fredag den 2. september 2011

SEGA MEGADRIVE (1989)fredag den 2. september 2011

PLAYSTATIONfredag den 2. september 2011

FRONTIER: ELITE II (1993)fredag den 2. september 2011

SID MEIER’S PIRATES (1987/2004) FRONTIER: ELITE II (1993)fredag den 2. september 2011

GRAND THEFT AUTO 3: VICE CITY (2002)fredag den 2. september 2011

TETRIS (1984)fredag den 2. september 2011

CANABALT (2009)fredag den 2. september 2011

THE JOY OF MAKING STUFF HAPPENfredag den 2. september 2011

SPECTACLEfredag den 2. september 2011

CHOICEfredag den 2. september 2011

THE GAME MAKER IS AN ARCHITECTfredag den 2. september 2011

A GAME IS AN AMUSEMENT PARK WITH POINTSfredag den 2. september 2011

“Well, I do think it is important that we have Danish game developers. [...] Danish video game developers will of course be shaped by having grown up in Danish culture. And that cannot but shape their way of working and so it gets close to the children. And you’re absolutely right, we have to go where the children are..” MINISTER OF CULTURE PER STIG MØLLER (2010)fredag den 2. september 2011

“The Liberal Party does not support that government should fund video games. Video games are an obvious trade commodity and I don’t think at all that this is comparable to funding movies. I have a hard time seeing why Danish games should be particularly more trustworthy and good than other games.” FORMER SPOKESPERSON ON POLICY (V) JENS ROHDE (2004)fredag den 2. september 2011

“Indeed, if I had my way, a solid grounding in economics would be required of anyone seeking to learn about game design.” - Greg Costikyan @JONASSMITHfredag den 2. september 2011

THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR ATTENTION jonas@autoﬁre.dkfredag den 2. september 2011

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