Video games and contemporary art: Polygonal painting and environmental storytelling in art installation
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https://doi.org/10.7494/human.2025.24.2.7835Keywords:
PPC (Pay-Per-Click), algorithmic opacity, black box, epistemic practice, algorithmic accountability, tacit knowledge, digital labor, community of practiceAbstract
This article describes two kinds of relations between contemporary art and video games. The first part of the article is about contemporary painting, which draws inspiration from the style of polygon graphics. In the second part the author describes similarities between the methods of transmitting narrations in contemporary art installation and videogames, which use environmental storytelling.
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