Sixth session of DmPerspectives with George Fifield, theme of 
Computer Games as art
Class Discussion
High Art and Video Games
- High Art: above the surface
- Pop art: less metaphor, what you see is what you get
Space War
- ran on equipment the size of a refrigerator and cost over $100,000.
Articles
Readings
Game Studies
"To make things more confusing, the current pseudo-field of "new media" (primarily a strategy to claim computer-based communication for visual media studies), wants to subsume computer games as one of its objects. There are many problems with this strategy, as there is with the whole concept of "new media," and most dramatically the fact that computer games are not one medium, but many different media. From a computerized toy like Furby to the game Drug Wars on the Palm Pilot, not to mention massively multi-player games like Everquest, or the recent Anarchy Online, which was tested by 40.000 simultaneous playtesters, the extensive media differences within the field of computer games makes a traditional medium perspective almost useless."