Art is whatproclaims itself to be art.
What would you call a person who perceives a piece of non-art to be art, then?
A person with an opinion.
I'd been responding to Helm's post above mine - my interpretation of his comment was "art is defined by the artist," whereas I don't believe that to be true.
Not only. Anything anyone says is art is art, be it artist, bystander or theoretical third party. I do not have the... epistemological fortitude to even consider the possibility that when two different people say "art" they might mean the same thing. So it`s just a word, and I won`t get my extremely masculine panties in a bunch when someone basically says "what you consider x, I don`t consider y" where x and y deceptively both share the same sound effect.
On a less personal note, it is a benefit to the video game to have a widely accepted artistic merit, however nebulous it may be, yes.
I find myself echoing much of what Camus\Conceit is saying in this thread.
How is video game art, not art?
I mean, the artist drew it.
It might be of interest to you to draw the parallel to advertisements you see on TV. They certainly use stuff we consider arty, like music and digital or real media drawings, cinematography, whatnot, but are they THE ADS art themselves? Kojima makes a very old and tired question, is the container of art art because it contains art, and is it art regardless of wanting to be art or not?
It`s a tired question, but it`s still open.
Some people consider football an art form. Some consider sleep an art form. Some consider solitude an art form.
a lot of people impact a lot of social significance to what they consider important by connecting it to a word which carries universal connotations of goodness and importance.