Video Games and the NY Video Festival

Incognitius writes "The NYT (free reg. req.) has an article on the New York Video Festival's presentation of video games as an outpost of abstraction, eccentricity and avant-gardism. Various artists have used video games to make elaborate dramatic movies. In 'My Trip to Liberty City,' for example, Jim Munroe turns 'Grand Theft Auto III' into a comic travel diary, in which he chooses the 'skin' of a Canadian tourist and blithely ignores the criminal inducements that are the whole point of the game. Cartridge hacking, 'Halo,' and other elements of the gaming world are also mentioned, illustrating the amazing range of video games today."

Comments

Re:Down with NYT!

[stuph]

well, when another newspaper delivers the high-quality, award-winning articles that the NYT does, and gives them away for free without registration, then we can talk about it...

Re:Don't support NYT, read it here!

[malakai]

If you like the article why not support the NY Times? They aren't publicly funded, they do have expenses and someone has to pay the journalist.

If everyone were to think like you, and withold support to companies that provide legitimate well liked services, capitalism would fail. You are essentially stealing any potential ad revenue the NYT would have received when parties interested in this article went over to read it.

-malakai