Here’s an interesting followup to yesterday’s post on games as an artistic expression.

Kotaku (I must read them more often) is offering up opinion on the controversy surrounding Douglas Edric Stanley’s Invaders!. In what Stanley is calling installation art, players are pitted against the traditional Space Invaders, which are destroying the World Trade Center.

… the exhibit … was also accompanied by video clips of American films and President George W. Bush, additional peripheral elements that let us know we had a nebulous “political message” on our hands.

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This began as a rambling comment to nobody’s post on games as art, which I decided to cut short so I could share my ideas with the rest of you. I’m not sure where it’s going, so hang on. Read the rest of this entry »