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"Games-Language: An Interview with Noah Wardrip-Fruin" by Cicero Inacio 
da Silva

Cicero Inacio da Silva: You have recently edited a book on new media, 
story and games. Why are you interested in games?

NWF: I would say, for a couple reasons. I think that in a fundamental 
level, playing games, performing for each other, telling each other 
stories and poems, are deep human activities. All these activities have 
come in the digital media, in one way or another, and I wanted to create 
a book where people who were thinking about all of this would be in one 
context, and could actually respond to each other - so we can start to, 
through that dialog, think about the field in a broader way. This is 
part of the motivation. But another motivation was that, although I 
think this is changing, there is a sense that games were a kind of the 
Other, the separate thing in digital media. Games were very successful 
commercially, but very uninteresting from an artistic point of view, 
from a scholarly point of view. So I also wanted to challenge that a 
little bit and say: "Yes, games are one of the most popular forms of 
digital media, but they are also interesting art work, interesting 
writing, and this is happening and is related to games, and I think that 
scholars and artists have to contribute to our discussion about making 
and criticizing games."

Read full interview at networked_performance 
(http://turbulence.org/blog): 
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/001075.html

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