{"66299":{"#nid":"66299","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on Videogames and Art","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022See, the games community has it backwards: the point is not to \u0022legitimize\u0022 games as art, whatever that would mean,\u0022 said Ian Bogost, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, addressing the National Endowment for the Arts\u0027 inclusion of digital games as a potential recipient of funding, which some media outlets have interpreted as legitimizing games as art. \u0022The point is not to shoehorn games into some received, stable, agreed upon notion of what art is, as if there is such a notion. The point is to ask the question, what do videogames do to art? How do they change art, turning it into something new? It\u0027s encouraging that the NEA has invited us to consider this question. But its answers are hardly a foregone conclusion.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: Gamasutra, May 18, 2011.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/blogs\/IanBogost\/20110518\/7649\/What_do_Videogames_do_to_Art.php\u0022\u003ERead Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27192","created_gmt":"2011-05-25 12:01:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:30","author":"Benjamin Chapman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"spectrum sensing","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/blogs\/IanBogost\/20110518\/7649\/What_do_Videogames_do_to_Art.php","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13314","name":"digital games art"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"13270","name":"NEA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}