Its not philosophy whether something is art, it is politics?
Computer Games Are Art in Europe, Aren’t They?
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Petri Lankoski, D.Arts, is a Professor of Media Technology at the school of Communication, Media and IT at the Södertörn University, Sweden. His research focuses on game design, game characters, role-playing, and playing experience. Petri has been concentrating on single-player video games but researched also (multi-player) pnp and live-action role-playing games. This blog focuses on his research on games and related things. View more posts
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Art is a powerful word. I think Brand Robins has lots of good points in his relevant blog post about roleplaying games (they apply as is to your field of interest): http://yudhishthirasdice.blogspot.com/2006/01/games-art-power-and-me.html
Not sure if it is an urban legend but there is this story that the French Government categorized at some point snail to be a fish to get some EU subsidies for their snail farmers.
Just waiting when the French video game industry is running after th EU’s cultural funds.