Thursday, May 12, 2011

NEA brings video games in from the cold


The National Endowment for the Arts has embraced video games as an art form. Following on the heels of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's release for its upcoming The Art of Video Games exhibition, the NEA has renamed and rebranded its Arts on Radio and Television Grants, which will now be called Arts Media Grants. "We'll continue to support television and radio", NEA director of media arts Alyce Myatt explains in a video about the change, "but we're also going to fund content development for the Web, for theatrical release, for mobile phones, content to be distributed via satellite, and even content for game platforms."
Image: from Cory Archangel's tribute to Super Mario's clouds