Are Games Art?

[Grislygus]

Videogames will never be art. Unless, of course, some pop factory art tool like Murakami develops a video game; suddenly "ironic" video games will be seen as a clever and stunning subversion of the shallow, corporate and moneybased culture that it satirizes by becoming yet another facet of that shallow, corporate, and moneybased culture.

The stuffed-turkeys of the art dealing world will have their minds blown by contemporary pop art (yet again) and Takashi Murakami will laugh all the way to the bank. In the meantime, videogames made for the sheer purpose of being FUN and TURNING A PROFIT will still be looked down upon as pathetic and inferior commercial art. (Unlike Murakami! He's a GENIUS! We <3 SUPERFLAT PLEASE LET US THROW MONEY AT YOU, YOU STUNNING AND TIMELESS GOD OF EARTH-SHATTERINGLY LIFE AFFIRMING ARTWORK! HUGS AND KISSES!)

Terrible videogames made specifically to be knowing and sophisticated will be sold at 14.3 million dollars a pop at international art auctions, and galleries will begin showing classic game covers sealed away in crystal cases. These will be seen as deep, meaningful, and unintentionally relevant pillars of pop art that achieve heights of grandeur and sophistication that no *scoff* CONVENTIONAL artwork could ever hope to achieve. Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Cage, and Jennifer Anniston will immediately begin decorating their walls with classic arcade posters that they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for.