Videogames and Art

Introduction - Grethe Mitchell and Andy Clarke



Section I: Overviews



From Appropriation to Approximation - Axel Stockburger



Meltdown - Rebecca Cannon



Videogames as Literary Devices - Jim Andrews



High-Performance Play: The Making of Machinima - Henry Lowood



"Cracking the Maze": Curator's Note - Anne-Marie Schleiner



Section II: Artists on Art



Two Interviews with Brody Condon - Andy Clarke



In Conversation Fall 2003 and Spring 2012: Interviews with Joseph Delappe - Jon Winet



Figures in a Landscape: In Conversation with Gibson/Martelli (igloo) - Grethe Mitchell



The Idea of Doing Nothing: An Interview with Tobias Bernstrup - Francis Hunger



Staying in to Play: The Works of John Paul Bichard - John Paul Bichard



An Interview with Eddo Stern - Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell



The Isometric Museum: The Sim Gallery Online Project (an interview with Curators Katherine Isbister and Rainey Straus) - Jane Pinckard



The Evolution of a GBA Artist (2004) - Paul Catanese



From Fictional Videogame Stills to Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky, 1991-2005 - Suzanne Treister



Virtual Retrofit (or What Makes Computer Gaming So Damn Racy?) - M.A. Greenstein



Perspective Engines: An Interview with JODI - Francis Hunger



How Independent Game Development looked in 2002 (an interview with Julian Oliver and Kipper) - Melanie Swalwell



Medieval Unreality: Initiating an Artistic Discourse on Albania's Blood Feud by Editing a First-Person Shooter Game - Nina Czegledy and Maia Engeli



Section III: Games and other Art Forms



Should Videogames Be Viewed as Art? - Brett Martin



Some Notes on Aesthetics in Japanese Videogames - William Huber



The Computer as a Dollhouse (excerpts) - Tobey Crockett



Networking Power: Videogame Structure from Concept Art - Laurie Taylor



Fan Art as a Function of Agency in Oddworld Fan Culture - Gareth Schott and Andrew Burn



Will Computer Games Ever Be a Legitimate Art Form? - Ernest W. Adams Notes on Contributors and Artists

Grethe Mitchell is a writer/researcher and Reader in Digital and New Media at the University of Lincoln, UK. She has a long standing interest in videogames and the relationship of these to other cultural artefacts and outputs. She has collaborated with Andy Clarke on numerous papers and presentations on videogames and videogame art, including public lectures at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and at La Villette Numerique: Biennale of Digital Art, in Paris. Her continuing research involvement in this area included recently leading the development of an innovative movement-based computer game for children using the Kinect, as part of a two-year AHRC grant-funded project on children's games and play cultures - and subsequently leading a further grant-funded project looking at the various ways in which movement is captured, analysed, documented and re-presented within the Arts and Humanities.



Andy Clarke is a writer and unaffiliated researcher. He has collaborated on numerous papers on video games and video game art, as well as on other topics. He is an authority on video game art and has been invited to speak on this subject at the Bienniale of Digital Art at La Villette in Paris ('La Villette Numerique' 2002) and at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2006). He maintains a wide range of academic interests and is Co-Founder of COSIGN, using this unique series of cross-disciplinary conferences to establish and develop the field of computational semiotics. In the art thread of these conferences, he has exhibited numerous examples of video game art, including those by Brody Condon and others.