Video Games & Art lecture for the annual Call of Duty event. University of Iowa

1. Video Games & Art:
Realism and narrative choice

2. Are Video Games Art?

3. Edward Tufte

4. Museum of Modern Art
NYC
Nov 2012 exhibit
Pac-Man (1980)
Magnavox Odyssey (1972)
Pong (1972)
Space Invaders (1978)
Asteroids (1979)
Tempest (1981)
Yar’s Revenge (1982)
Minecraft (2011)
Tetris (1984)
Another World (1991)
Myst (1993)
SimCity 2000 (1994)
vib-ribbon (1999)
The Sims (2000)
Katamari Damacy (2004)
EVE Online (2003)
Portal (2007)
flOw (2006)
Passage (2008)
Canabalt (2009)

5. What about Call of Duty?

6. Combat (1977) Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)

7. Realism?
Call of Duty: Black Ops

10. “...[we] don't even get to see those guns let
alone use them, because the military only allows
very few service rifles to be used."
-Marine Lance Corporal Anthony Andrada

11. “Any one-shot kill weapon is very controversial because where’s the balance? Where is the
skill?”
-- David Vonderhaar, Game Design Director Treyarch Studios
“Early on many of us learned about the theme of ‘One Shot, One Kill’. You just waste ammo
like crazy in video games.”
-- Marine Lance Corporal Nicko Requesto

12. Special Operations Discourse
Global Media Discourse: A Critical Introduction
David Machin, Theo Van Leeuwen
Taylor & Francis, 2007