Video Game Art-The Expression Of Video Games In New Media Art

In contemporary art,artists are constantly trying to use new methods to create art.The rapid growth of video games has led artists to try to incorporate video games into their artistic practices.Video games have the characteristics of interaction,simulation,immersion and virtual.This is a very new and innovative entry point for artistic creation.As the electronic game itself is a novel high-tech product,the application of electronic game in new media art is seldom discussed.This paper is divided into three parts.The first part,as the basic content of the whole paper,mainly analyzes the background of the research object.First,it explains what video games are and what video game art is.The characteristics of game works and art works are analyzed respectively to distinguish between games and art.But thanks to the development of the Internet and technology,artists are increasingly combining games with artistic creation,giving birth to game art--any art in which digital video games play an important role in creating,producing and/or displaying artwork.At the same time,the first part also expounds the controversial part of the scope of game art,and defines the research scope of this paper as game art under the background of new media art.The second part,as the key part of the full text,uses the literature analysis method to illustrate the characteristics of the development process of video game art: artists from the use of existing games to create new games;From simulating the real world to building virtual worlds.Some specific cases of artists are listed to illustrate the transformation process of game art.Initially,artists used video games to create art using existing commercial games,and the final works can be in a variety of forms,such as video,installation,photography,animation,Machinima and even performance art.Then,with the popularization of game making technology,artists began to design and develop their own games.With the process of game commercialization,the form of game gradually matures.A few artists continue to explore the expression limits of this form of game in their artistic creation,while the focus of most artists’ game art works shifts to content creation.The theme of game art has gradually changed from the simulation of the real world to the creation of the virtual world.The third part simply analyzes the operation of game art from the perspective of museology.I divide the presentation of game art into two categories--physical and virtual.Game art can be displayed in a gallery like many works of art;Or virtual display on the web.Centering on the characteristics of physical platform and virtual platform,this part of the paper will discuss the problems to be solved in the exhibition,collection and preservation of game art and the challenges faced by game art in the art market.