video game art this article is about creating art from existing video games and does not deal with game art development art games or video games as an art form for other uses see art game disambiguation art and video games video games as an art form arthouse game the art of video games exhibition alternate reality game artistic expression within video games video game art nongame machinima interactive movie video game art creation game art design video game graphics video game music storytelling pixel art video game artists video games portalvte video game art is a specialized form of computer art employing video games as the artistic medium video game art often involves the use of patched or modified video games or the repurposing of existing games or game structures however it relies on a broader range of artistic techniques and outcomes than artistic modification and it may also include painting sculpture appropriation ingame intervention and performance sampling etc paolo pedercinis molleindustria games such as unmanned and every day the same dream and ian bogosts cowclicker artistic modifications are frequently made possible through the use of level editors though other techniques exist some artists make use of machinima applications to produce noninteractive animated artworks however artistic modification is not synonymous with machinima as these form only a small proportion of artistic modifications like video games artistic game modifications are often interactive and may allow for singleplayer or multiplayer experience multiplayer works make use of networked environments to develop new kinds of interaction and collaborative art production techniques machinima machinima play media machinima filmed in second life machinima is the use of realtime threedimensional 3d graphics rendering engines to generate computer animation the term also refers to works that incorporate this animation technique ingame intervention and performance artists may intervene in online games in a nonplay manner often disrupting games in progress in order to challenge or expose underlying conventions and functions of game play examples of this include anne marie schleiners velvetstrike a project designed to allow players of realistic first person shooter games to use antiwar graffiti within the game to make an artistic statement sitespecific installations and siterelative mods sitespecific installations and siterelative gaming modifications mods replicate realworld places often the art gallery in which they are displayed to explore similarities and differences between real and virtual worlds an example is what it is without the hand that wields it where blood from kills in counterstrike manifests and spills into a real life gallery realtime performance instruments video games can be incorporated into live audio and visual performance using a variety of instruments and computers such as keyboards embedded with music chips generative art mods generative art mods exploit the realtime capabilities of game technologies to produce everrenewing autonomous artworks art game demoscene digital art electronic art electronic language international festival game masters game studies interactive art internet art ingame photography mod video gaming modding software art video games as an art form virtual art notes gamescenes art in the age of videogames johan levi 2006 edited by matteo bittanti and domenico quaranta introduction to artistic computer game modification by rebecca cannon pdf file backed up here videogames and art by andy clarke and grethe mitchell eds journal of media practice vol 7 no 1 special edition on videogames and art by andy clarke and grethe mitchell eds switch art games issue 1999 online magazine of the cadre laboratory for new media san jose state university from firstperson shooter to multiuser knowledge spaces mathias fuchs and sylvia eckermann konsum artserver ntracker margarete jahrmann and max moswitzer messages for a 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