Videogames and art

Front Cover......Page 1
Preliminaries......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
From Appropriation to Approximation......Page 24
Meltdown......Page 26
Videogames as Literary Devices......Page 55
High-PerformancePlay: The Making of Machinima......Page 60
“Cracking the Maze” Curator’s Note......Page 81
An Interview with Brody Condon......Page 86
In Conversation Fall 2003: An Interview with Joseph DeLappe......Page 95
The Idea of Doing Nothing: An Interview with Tobias Bernstrup......Page 108
The Isometric Museum: The SimGalleryOnline Project......Page 117
The Evolution of a GBA Artist......Page 128
From Fictional Videogame Stillsto Time Travelling with RosalindBrodsky 1991–2005......Page 131
Virtual Retrofit (or What Makes Computer Gaming so Damn Racy?)......Page 145
Perspective Engines: An Interview with JODI......Page 153
Independent Game Development: Two Views from Australia......Page 161
Medieval Unreality: Initiating an Artistic Discourse on Albania’s Blood Feudby Editing a First-Person Shooter Game......Page 182
Should Videogames be Viewed as Art?......Page 202
Some Notes on Aesthetics in Japanese Videogames......Page 212
The Computer as a Dollhouse (excerpts)......Page 220
Networking Power: Videogame Structure from Concept Art......Page 227
Fan-Art as a Function of Agency in Oddworld Fan-Culture......Page 239
Will Computer Games Ever be a Legitimate Art Form?......Page 256
Notes on Contributors and Artists......Page 266
Index......Page 274
Back Cover......Page 290