{"id":267,"date":"2002-01-13T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2002-01-13T18:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/01\/13\/267.html"},"modified":"2002-01-13T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2002-01-13T18:30:01","slug":"video-games-as-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/01\/13\/video-games-as-fine-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Video games as fine art?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chinese artist Feng Mengbo has apparently for some time been taking video games, replacing some of the graphics with other graphics (such as replacing Mario with Mao Zedong in a Nintendo game), and displaying the game as art.  (Apparently even the choice of medium is a political commentary: he sees various ideologies as video-game-like in their limitations.)  Now, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www-news.uchicago.edu\/releases\/02\/020109.q4u.shtml\">University of Chicago press release<\/a>, he's releasing\/showing\/performing his newest interactive digital artwork: Q4U, a live online game of Quake with a picture of the artist as one of the characters.  Today only, at the U. Chicago servers; see press release for details.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, this is yet another interesting take on the kind of art that uses appropriation and collage and other forms of reusing other art.  I wonder if Nintendo tried to sue (for copyright infringement) over the reinterpretation of Mario Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>I also think it's interesting that something that hackers have done for years (and that some game companies have gone out of their way to make possible)&#8212;changing the graphics in a game&#8212;becomes legitimate art when done with political motivation by a legitimate artist.  (I do not mean to imply that it's not legitimate art; I'm just saying I think that this kind of thing makes it hard to argue that the artist's intention is irrelevant to art.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese artist Feng Mengbo has apparently for some time been taking video games, replacing some of the graphics with other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}