Event: "L'Art dans le Jeu Vidéo" (Art Ludique-Le Musé, Paris, September 2015 - March 2016)

This is another "the art of videogames (

)" kind of exhibition (à la

) which focuses on the contributions by Gallic designers to the medium of videogames. Although it's not terribly interesting per se, it does demonstrate that, all the over the world, museums (in this case, the Parisian Ludic Museum) and institutions are taking games seriously. One obvious sign is the frequent use of words like "

in press releases and promotional videos, not to mention the constant reference to "a large transgenerational public" allegedly interested in these sorts of things.

Here's more:

"Through more than 800 spectacular artworks and installations, this major exhibition will amaze a large transgenerational public by plunging them into a world filled with an incredible diversity, throughout which magnificent pencil sketches, watercolors, traditional and digital paintings and sculptures, and even animated paintings, will reveal the formidable virtuosity of the artists behind the creation of French video games.

Jean-Jacques Launier, founder of the museum and curator of the exhibition often says that in his eyes video games embody the “Total Work of Art”. They require skills in drawing, painting, sculpture, at creating entire universes and hundreds of characters per game, mise en scène work, animation, storyline, music and of course, the conception of gameplays that transcends interactivity."

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