From: http://www.bruceongames.com/2007/08/03/games-are-art/
Someone I have never heard of before, Roger Ebert, has been making a big splash saying that games are not art. In my opinion he is wrong. What is or isn’t art is an oft discussed subject, especially amongst artists, here is a typical discussion .
Nowadays a game production will involve many artists, who often have an art life outside of games. I was at Imagine when we first borrowed an artist from an advertising agency to get the clouds right in the Spectrum game, Zoom. But the use of artists in making something does not necessarily mean that what they produce is art.
My take, fwiw, is that anything is art if it’s creator (as per Marcel Duchamp) says it is. So if I float a shaving cream island across my bathroom sink and say that it is art then it is art. Another take is to say that art is anything that can engender an emotional response. By this measure games are definitely art. More so than some other media because of their interactive nature.
I am sure that when the moving picure industry started it was not considered to be art, just entertainment for the masses. Now it is universally regarded and referred to as art. The big change is just one of maturity. Exactly the same has happened with television. And exactly the same will happen with games.
One of the things that really annoys me is that the BBC (and many other media) report about computer games under the heading of technology. Yet go to their arts section and you have cinema and television. This is just so illogical, why are games judged by the medium and television by the content?
Friday 19 September 2008
Friday 1 August 2008
Artforums.co.uk on Knol
Link: http://knol.google.com/k/bruce-everiss/artforumscouk/2l81m4yln1pbt/32#
After nearly 20 years of running All Formats Compter Fairs the business model broke because the interweb did the same job better. Looking for alternatives I started running Arts Markets at Warwick Racecourse. Artforums.co.uk was started in November 2006 as marketing support for the Markets. The Arts Markets failed as a business but Artforums seemed to be working. So a Google adword campaign and a series of press releases to recruit new members were invested in. And the idea was to monetise the whole thing with Google adsense.
After a while I split it into three forums. The biggest and most successful is the forum for practicing artists. This has over 1,100 members and over 45,000 posts. The main property of the forum is that it is very friendly and supportive of practicing artist. It is a broad church with active members who are at school through to well known full time professional artists. Also all media are supported including a section for unconventional media such as chainsaw sculpture. The forum has a zero tolerance policy towards people who join solely to promote their businesses. However once members are established there are a number of mechanisms they can use to promote themselves and their work.
The Art Lover's forum, obviously, is for a different audience. This has been slower to take off with just 165 members and 745 posts. However it is far from dead with some excellent content that is frequently added to.
The Art for Sale forum brings together the members of the two other forums. Artists can sell their work to Art Lovers. This is a gallery in the form of a forum and some galleries in there have has thousands of viewers. All for free.
After nearly 20 years of running All Formats Compter Fairs the business model broke because the interweb did the same job better. Looking for alternatives I started running Arts Markets at Warwick Racecourse. Artforums.co.uk was started in November 2006 as marketing support for the Markets. The Arts Markets failed as a business but Artforums seemed to be working. So a Google adword campaign and a series of press releases to recruit new members were invested in. And the idea was to monetise the whole thing with Google adsense.
After a while I split it into three forums. The biggest and most successful is the forum for practicing artists. This has over 1,100 members and over 45,000 posts. The main property of the forum is that it is very friendly and supportive of practicing artist. It is a broad church with active members who are at school through to well known full time professional artists. Also all media are supported including a section for unconventional media such as chainsaw sculpture. The forum has a zero tolerance policy towards people who join solely to promote their businesses. However once members are established there are a number of mechanisms they can use to promote themselves and their work.
The Art Lover's forum, obviously, is for a different audience. This has been slower to take off with just 165 members and 745 posts. However it is far from dead with some excellent content that is frequently added to.
The Art for Sale forum brings together the members of the two other forums. Artists can sell their work to Art Lovers. This is a gallery in the form of a forum and some galleries in there have has thousands of viewers. All for free.
Friday 16 May 2008
Press Release
Online artist's community now over 1,000 members and still growing
Artforums.co.uk, the online artist's community has now grown to over 1,000 artist members from all around the world. It is highly inclusive, members cover all skill levels from students to full time professionals and all ages from schoolchildren to pensioners.
Warwickshire UK, May 15 2008
Artforums.co.uk, the online artist's community has now grown to over 1,000 artist members from all around the world. It is highly inclusive, members cover all skill levels from students to full time professionals and all ages from schoolchildren to pensioners.
Recent popular changes include Experiments and Ask the Forum. Experiments are where a member tries something new and engages the community in their experience, some of the results are fascinating. Ask the Forum allows anyone to dip into the huge well of knowledge that the members collectively have, this is an incredibly useful feature for any artist.
Artforums.co.uk is very popular with nearly 100,000 page views per month of the 35,000 posts that have been made. Forum owner Bruce Everiss is delighted: "Artforums has grown to become a fantastic community for artists. It is amazingly supportive and friendly with an outstanding diversity of creativity."
Artforums.co.uk, the online artist's community has now grown to over 1,000 artist members from all around the world. It is highly inclusive, members cover all skill levels from students to full time professionals and all ages from schoolchildren to pensioners.
Warwickshire UK, May 15 2008
Artforums.co.uk, the online artist's community has now grown to over 1,000 artist members from all around the world. It is highly inclusive, members cover all skill levels from students to full time professionals and all ages from schoolchildren to pensioners.
Recent popular changes include Experiments and Ask the Forum. Experiments are where a member tries something new and engages the community in their experience, some of the results are fascinating. Ask the Forum allows anyone to dip into the huge well of knowledge that the members collectively have, this is an incredibly useful feature for any artist.
Artforums.co.uk is very popular with nearly 100,000 page views per month of the 35,000 posts that have been made. Forum owner Bruce Everiss is delighted: "Artforums has grown to become a fantastic community for artists. It is amazingly supportive and friendly with an outstanding diversity of creativity."
Monday 12 May 2008
New online community
I have started a new forum for the area around where I live.
http://harbury.villagebuzz.co.uk/
http://harbury.villagebuzz.co.uk/
Wednesday 19 March 2008
More blogs
I also have a video game industry blog http://www.bruceongames.com/
And a SCUBA diving blog http://www.scubabrucie.com/dive/index.php
And a SCUBA diving blog http://www.scubabrucie.com/dive/index.php
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