Are video games art? Ask that of most gamers and you will hear angry rants about Roger Ebert and Clive Barker. Ask a fan of other mediums of art, and you might get a more hesitant response. Not so from the Vancouver Art Gallery, who is set to unveil this summer a groundbreaking new exhibition featuring video games.
The exhibition is titled Krazy! The Delirious World Of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art. Yes, that is a mouthful. So how do you feature an exhibit consisting of the above mediums?
Easy, you devote two floors of your museum to original sketches, notes, concept drawings, final production drawings, animation cells, three-dimensional models and published works. Included among the artists who will be featured are Maus author Art Spiegelman, The Sims creator Will Wright, comic artist Seth and animated feature film director Tim Johnson. Yes, a pretty much all-star lineup.
The exhibit will run from May 17 to September 7. For those wanting to support the idea of games as art, it would likely be a wise idea to patronize the museum during this time to show your support for such exhibitions. For those who can’t make the trip, just remember you probably have a local art museum that has a suggestion box just waiting for your brilliant ideas.
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