[arg_discuss] Sept. 15 IRC Chat Log

[liberty at sunwheelproductions.com]

pfft. What does Roger know!  Thanks for the link.

Liberty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrea Phillips" <andrhia at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG" <arg_discuss at igda.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [arg_discuss] Sept. 15 IRC Chat Log



> (Apologies if this is a duplicate - technical difficulties...)

>

> Thanks for coming by the chat!

>

> I think the AAA question is a subset of the larger question of whether

> video games can be considered art. There's a lot of talk about it in

> the last couple of years, especially since good old film critic Roger

> Ebert said that video games could never be considered an art form.

>

> Here's a link to some of that discussion:

> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051130-5657.html

>

> If you Google around for 'roger ebert video games art' you'll come up

> with tons more information.

>

> --Andrea

>

>

>

> On 9/15/07, liberty at sunwheelproductions.com

> <liberty at sunwheelproductions.com> wrote:

> > Just wanted to say I enjoyed the chat today. It was very nice to meet

you

> > all. Thanks for forwarding the chat log. I very much enjoyed the AAA

> > discussion that happened shortly after I logged out - given I'm working

on a

> > thesis in for an art residency!

> >

> > I didn't realize their was a question  - or a controversy about whether

or

> > not ARGs are art. Isn't everything? I'd like to hear more. (Hopefully,

this

> > won't incite an argument!) Any one want to fill me in?

> >

> > Cheers,

> > Liberty

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