Kellee Santiago: Are Video Games Art?

Game innovator Kellee Santiago insists that games are more than entertainment. They are art. As a student in the MFA Interactive Media program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Kellee's research focused on game design, interactive narrative, and physical and gestural interfaces for digital media. She has produced and managed a number of interactive projects including "I'm Gonna Kill the President! A Federal Offense" at PS122, and "The Angel Project" at Lincoln Center. While at USC, she teamed up with fellow student Jenova Chen to develop the student-created game, "Cloud." The critically acclaimed game led them to found their own studio, thatgamecompany, which landed a three game deal with Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. to develop downloadable games for Playstation Network. thatgamecompany's mission is to create games that push the possibilities of what games can communicate.

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[IronJackalTw]

STOP making our VIDEO GAMES so short & ARTsy!! =/

SEARCH & READ "The "dumbing down" of video games - MMO-Champion"

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SEARCH & READ "I Come To Praise First-Person Shooters, Not To Bury Them"

Mike Langlois, FPS GAMERS don't need your approval! Ted Haggard like your LGBT weirdo R irritating! Go play THE SIMS, or join USA MILITARY because Bush 2.0 make it possible 4 U now!! >=P

Gamasutra write so much false ASSumptions & little USEFUL INFO!! >=(

[youscrewber]

This debate is retarded and a waste of everyone's time

[IhazinternetzXD]

@halfbakedharry XD...IM quoting you in my school essay on my most influential art form

[IronJackalTw]

R U sure that U want FPS GAMERS start shooting REAL FIREARMS at those started BS WARS?....

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Pat Tillman could be someone I know in High School on our FOOTBALL TEAM....

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Bush Knocked down Twin Towers (911) - Immortal Technique....

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Crawl back to your GAY Jews HOLLYWOOD & off FPS GAMES!! >=(

[IronJackalTw]

Video Games R ART not GAME crowd is FULL OF SHIT in denial!! =/

George Carlin on Mass-Media (sorry 4 repetition, but middle part is great)....

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Andreas Ronning is correct! Tomonobu Itagaki served his EVIL MASTERS well! TORUS.... lol? Bring on Grade-A Prime-Cut FULL OF SHIT already....

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We lived in a SICK SICK WORLD!! >=P

[IronJackalTw]

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Josh Engen said, "narcissistic loudmouth who thinks that you deserve to live in a world where no one tries to sell you a product, you might want to ask your doctor for a psych referral."

George Carlin talks about advertising....

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We already paid $60 per GAME! U can't even deliver GAMEPLAY we want, CLUE-LESS IDIOTS!! >=(

[IronJackalTw]

I had been VIDEO GAMING 4 ever! It is one of my HOBBY, & I as GAMER will accurately define it without any BS Euphemisms! Video Game is a GAMING Medium! It is a sub set of SOFTWARE with 1 & 0 where computers can read them in machine code! This COMPUTER SOFTWARE contain GAMEPLAY, which allowed USER INPUTS & INTERACTIONS with DISPLAY on SCREEN! With this GAMEPLAY, it had GAME PHYSICS ENGINE, TEXTURE (polygon or spirit) FILES, AUDIO FILES, UI, AI, & ETC that made up this GAMING MEDIUM!! >=)

[IronJackalTw]

LIFE is a PARADOX!! {roll my eyes}

Hayao Miyazaki is POLITICAL SCIENCE major not ART major....

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Shōji Kawamori is AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING major not ART major either! Most Aerospace/Mechanical Engineers can DRAW way better than ARTsy-FARTsy like Jackson Pollock anyhow....

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Alfred Hitchcock & Stanley Kubrick never won an OSCAR, so neither did Akira Kurosawa....

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ART is PRETENTIOUS & favorite word of ARTsy-FARTsy!! >=P

[IronJackalTw]

Our GREEDY CROOKS, FLAG-WAVING LIARS, PRO-RELIGIOUS BIGOTS, MASS MURDERERS, SERIAL KILLERS, & just AWFUL LOW-LIFE R obsessed in ART....

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VIDEO GAMES R not REAL! They R 4 FUN, yet we have these LIARS pretend that they R REAL to SCAPEGOAT our GAMERS & distract OTHERS from knowing what a SHIT that they really R....

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They hated our GAMES in GAMEPLAY....

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They won't be happy until everything is ARTsy-FARTsy like they R!! >=(

[unholysanta]

1:09 I can: Bioshock, shadow of the colossus, Minecraft, flower, halo 1-reach, ICO, bastion, dwarf fortress, FF1, FF7, Infamous, little big planet. do you think these fine examples are great peaces of modern art?