What exactly is high-brow? I mean, not classical Mozart and such, but what would be an example of current high brow art? Because, I can tell you now that for every type of artist and musician there is today, there's a developer. Whether they make mods, full games, are part of a team or go solo. Video games themselves are a sub-class of game creating, like piano music is to music. So, does the definition of high-brow take sub-classes into account? Does it exclude certain subclasses? If I were to make a beautiful ballad with a Stick and Rock, could it ever be highbrow? With a Banjo? With a Synthesizer?
Most people (I'm assuming... I'm really not a high-brow kinda guy) would associate High-Brow with classical, a time period. If that's the case, any game created in that time would be gaming's High-Brow stuff. If high-brow is just whatever the "Haves" say it is, then whatever games they play, electronic or otherwise, is high-brow. But having a 'High-Brow' version of something to study or aspire to doesn't have anything to do with being an art. Many things are considered high-brow that aren't part of an art (I'm pretty sure alcohol isn't art, but Wine is considered High-Brow). This is because anything can be considered highbrow if enough snooty rich people are into it.
Being a work of art relates more to the passion put into and recieved from something than what it actually is. Thus, it's difficult to completely nail down. The only quality an art must nessisarily possess is creation: you don't find art in the wild (Though, in a sence, this is what photography does... not really though), it's a human expression. Since games are created by humans, they qualify for being art.
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What exactly is high-brow? I mean, not classical Mozart and such, but what would be an example of current high brow art? Because, I can tell you now that for every type of artist and musician there is today, there's a developer. Whether they make mods, full games, are part of a team or go solo. Video games themselves are a sub-class of game creating, like piano music is to music. So, does the definition of high-brow take sub-classes into account? Does it exclude certain subclasses? If I were to make a beautiful ballad with a Stick and Rock, could it ever be highbrow? With a Banjo? With a Synthesizer?
Most people (I'm assuming... I'm really not a high-brow kinda guy) would associate High-Brow with classical, a time period. If that's the case, any game created in that time would be gaming's High-Brow stuff. If high-brow is just whatever the "Haves" say it is, then whatever games they play, electronic or otherwise, is high-brow. But having a 'High-Brow' version of something to study or aspire to doesn't have anything to do with being an art. Many things are considered high-brow that aren't part of an art (I'm pretty sure alcohol isn't art, but Wine is considered High-Brow). This is because anything can be considered highbrow if enough snooty rich people are into it.
Being a work of art relates more to the passion put into and recieved from something than what it actually is. Thus, it's difficult to completely nail down. The only quality an art must nessisarily possess is creation: you don't find art in the wild (Though, in a sence, this is what photography does... not really though), it's a human expression. Since games are created by humans, they qualify for being art.