I was reading David Weinberger's weblog this evening and noticed he had stopped by the Harvard bookstore tonight to see Steven Johnson speak about his new book, "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter."
Johnson took questions:
"So, I asked: While some books clearly count as art, could the same ever happen to some video games?
He replied that, yes, he thought so, but it wasn't going to be via narrative. It will be more like architecture, he said, in which the aesthetic value has to do with building complex and beautiful places."
This is a very interesting concept. Game art has become cinematic and due to leaps in the technology, much like film.
The aesthetic remains regardless of medium.
Gestalt, the rules of thirds, and the golden mean don't just work on canvas. Pixels too.
11:08:40 PM 
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