When the Museum of Modern Art began collecting video games a decade ago, curators boldly asserted that games were an artistic medium.
The MoMA exhibition “Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design,” which runs through Sunday, represents the museum’s cautious advance into the gaming world at a time when digital culture has overtaken its galleries.
However, the museum could do more to break the firewall between art lovers and game designers.
Curators need to unleash that same passion for games, which struggle in the current exhibition to convey the profundity, and complexity, of their designers’ thinking.
On the first floor, old computer monitors cantilevered above visitors are drawn from the museum’s collection of video games.
Persons:
John Maeda
Organizations:
Museum of Modern Art