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Saturday, December 1, 2012

MoMa Makes Video Games Art

MoMa, the Museum of Modern Art, has begun collecting video games.  Yeah, you heard me.  Fourteen video games were selected by the museum and officially dubbed "art."  If this does not make sure that my generation is taking over the world nothing does.  Let's look at the list:

Pac-Man (1980) - Considered the Van Gogh of the bunch.  No ears, get it?
Tetris (1984) - Obviously derivative of Picasso.
Another World (1991) - This is a game, I'm told.
Myst (1993) - Be cause matte paintings can be video games, too.
SimCity 2000 (1994) - Rodin, the thinking man's game.
vib-ribbon (1999) - I heard this existed.
The Sims (2000) - Because trapping people in a room and taking away the doors until they die is somebody's art.
EVE Online (2003) - The essence of Cheeto dust on a keyboard.
Katamari Damacy (2004) - Because Dali was bored that day.
Dwarf Fortress (2006) - Who the fuck knows why this is here?
flOw (2006) - aRt is intereSTing with ranDomness
Portal (2007) - I'ma go ahead and just give this a pass.
Passage (2008) - Sure, this was also a game that... I don't know this one.
Canabalt (2009) - Nope, not even gonna comment.  The name scares me and I don't know why.

So here's what we have: A bunch of cubists art with some surrealists sprinkled in.  Hope you enjoy.

MoMa acquires 14 video games for collection, confirms video games as art