Art History of Games

Here are all the sessions from the Art History of Games symposium in Atlanta, recorded for your viewing pleasure. Haven’t gone through all of these myself but just looking at the topics and the names present on stage, it’s safe to assume this is something that you have to watch:

The Art History of Games	Sharp, John; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts
Doorknobs and Butterflies: Games After Art	Lantz, Frank; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; NYU Game Center
Image Games	Paul, Christiane; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; New School (New York, N.Y.); Whitney Museum of American Art
Interactive Storytelling is our Project Xanadu	Rohrer, Jason; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts
Keynote Panel Discussion: John Romero, Christiane Paul, Harvey Smith, Richard Lemarchand; Moderator, Ian Bogost	Romero, John; Paul, Christiane; Smith, Harvey; Lemarchand, Richard;Bogost, Ian; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; Id Software; New School (New York, N.Y.); Whitney Museum of American Art; Arkane Studios; Naughty Dog, Inc.; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Masters Among Us	Romero, John; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; Id Software
One Falls for Each of Us: The Prototyping of Tragedy	Brathwaite, Brenda; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts
Over games	Harvey, Auriea; Samyn, Michael; Savannah College of Art and Design;Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; Tale of Tales
Panel Discussion: Jay David Bolter, Celia Pearce, Henry Lowood ; Moderator, Michael Nitsche	Bolter, J. David; Pearce, Celia; Lowood, Henry; Nitsche, Michael;Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Communication, and Culture; Stanford University
Panel Discussion: Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, John Sharp ; Moderator, Christoph Kluetsch	Sharp, John; Juul, Jesper; Lantz, Frank; Kluetsch, Christoph; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; NYU Game Center
Panel Discussion: Nathalie Pozzi, Eric Zimmerman, Tale of tales ; Jason Rohrer, Brenda Brathwaite ; Moderator John Sharp	Pozzi, Nathalie; Zimmerman, Eric; Harvey, Auriea; Samyn, Michael;Rohrer, Jason; Brathwaite, Brenda; Sharp, John; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; Tale of Tales
Players are artists too	Lowood, Henry; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; Stanford University
Play’s the Thing: Games as fine art	Pearce, Celia; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
The Pure Game: A Short History of Video Game Aesthetics	Juul, Jesper; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; NYU Game Center
Sixteen Tons	Pozzi, Nathalie; Zimmerman, Eric; Savannah College of Art and Design;Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts
Videogames & the two avant-gardes	Bolter, J. David; Schrank, Brian J.; Savannah College of Art and Design;Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
What is an Art History of Games?	Nitsche, Michael; Bogost, Ian; Sharp, John; Savannah College of Art and Design; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Liberal Arts;Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Communication, and Culture

Into the Night with Jason Rohrer and Chris Crawford

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Documentary shot by Franco-German TV arte, following two highly acclaimed game designers: Jason Rohrer (Passage, Between) and Chris Crawford (game designer and theoretician who started his career in the ’80). The documentary was shot in San Francisco at this year’s GDC.

This is a fantastic piece of television, an unusually mature and tasteful take on game design, so don’t waste your time, just click play.

I added the video on Vimeo using Diebussy’s original upload.

Update: Uh-Oh! Apparently, the good people at Vimeo deleted the video I uploaded. Copyright issues have been broken. If you still want to watch this great documentary, please use the above link.