"Games-Language: An Interview with Noah Wardrip-Fruin" by Cicero
Inacio da Silva

Cicero Inacio da Silva: You have recently edited a book on new media,
story and games. Why are you interested in games?

NWF: I would say, for a couple reasons. I think that in a fundamental
level, playing games, performing for each other, telling each other
stories and poems, are deep human activities. All these activities have
come in the digital media, in one way or another, and I wanted to create
a book where people who were thinking about all of this would be in one
context, and could actually respond to each other - so we can start to,
through that dialog, think about the field in a broader way. This is
part of the motivation. But another motivation was that, although I
think this is changing, there is a sense that games were a kind of the
Other, the separate thing in digital media. Games were very successful
commercially, but very uninteresting from an artistic point of view,
from a scholarly point of view. So I also wanted to challenge that a
little bit and say: "Yes, games are one of the most popular forms of
digital media, but they are also interesting art work, interesting
writing, and this is happening and is related to games, and I think that
scholars and artists have to contribute to our discussion about making
and criticizing games."

Read full interview at networked_performance
(http://turbulence.org/blog):
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/001075.html

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