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Re:Video Games Can Never Be Art by jjs on Saturday April 17, 2010 @01:11PM (#1273326)
His thesis reduces to: adding any interactivity to art automatically makes it Not Art.

I wonder if he's willing to make the same statements about participatory theatre.

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Re:Video Games Can Never Be Art by r0s on Saturday April 17, 2010 @03:28PM (#1273567)
Or, say, tactile sculpture. I'd argue all art requires audience participation. Suspension of disbelief on film, hell any symbol or metaphor in any medium has to be actively analyzed.
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