Love it or hate it, the "games as art" debate won't be going away anytime soon. It reared its head again recently after a particularly incendiary Guardian review of MoMA’s newly-opened exhibition of classic and modern video games. But to Douglas Rushkoff, digital theorist and author of Media Virus and Program or Be Programmed, the cultural importance of games goes far beyond any institutional designation as art. Rather, games and the ways we play them give us a new potential to re-evaluate, re-configure, and replace the systems we live under.
That might sound idealistic and a bit crazy, but there’s no denying that games have seriously changed the way we look at the world. By viewing our social, political, and economic structures...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/12/3758576/douglas-rushkoff-gameplay-as-prototype
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