The video helped me put a finger on why I keep coming back to Art Asignment videos and why they move me so much. The topics are interesting and accessibly presented, sure. But the main appeal for me is the deep compassion and kindness that Sarah's videos convey. It's a way of looking at the world and especially at what humans do and experience that does not shirk mentioning problems and challenges, but never ridicules or degrades others. In a way the Art Asignment videos are exercises in consciously experiencing human dignity; in others and ourselves. So thank you Sarah and all the others who contrinbute to the videos. I can only aspire to cultivate such an open and wholesome mindset.

I am a gamer of 30+ years and one of my degrees is in Art History. I have had some of the most poignant experiences while gaming. They aren't really any different than film/books/music to a degree now as far as the range of the medium.

You bloody legend, I've been trying to convince people of video games validity within the art world and you've summed up my arguments beautifully.

Another thing that I think is worth mentioning when talking about video games as an art form are mods. This is something that is unique to games, you can't just walk up to the Mona Lisa and add a mustache (unless you want to get into serious trouble), but with games, if you prefer the dragons in Skyrim to look like Thomas the tank engine, there's a mod for that. You want your Sims to be naked? Mod. You want to romance the straight character Cullen from Dragon Age Inquisition with your gay inquisitor? Mod. There are even mods that turn a game into an entirely different game, new characters, new story, new everything, like Enderal. It adds a whole new level of interactiveness, not only can you interact with the game within the limits the developers set, you can bypass those limits completely.

The host is so intelligent and her insight of art has made me fall in love with The Art Assignment and art all together. I'm so thankful for her giving me all this information that I can absorb quickly and critically. Their something so special about her.

You show an amazingly wide range of games here, old to new, indie to main stream, all kinds of genres... thank you :)! You actually included so many of my favourites from the past years (The Witness and The Return of the Obra Dinn are awesome).

For those not familiar with the Gesamtkunstwerk, I suggest you watch Brian David Gilbert's perfect Pokérap.

I know you said about Seaman that "Not everything is a winner," but I played that game when I was a kid, and he'll get into really deep conversations with you, and he actually made me feel better about myself. You see, he asked me if I liked myself-to which I said no. We talked about my weight problems, and he actually convinced me that being overweight isn't the end of the world. I weep when I look back on that game, it's a true masterpiece.

I'm not a big gamer (i just lack the coordination!) but i recently played a game called "what remains of edith finch" that was absolutely a piece of art. I kept thinking, wow this game is like a graphic novel! but really, there was no other way to tell quite that specific story in any way other than a game and i'm so glad i got to experience it.

LAN parties are still a thing! There is an annual LAN party at my best friends college. I went to it once, it was a lot of fun! Someone brought there vr headset and had it set up for anyone to play.

In my home city of Montreal, the art history department in one of our universities (Université de Montréal) offers a minor in "video game studies". The cours description says its looking into "the different facets of video games: its history, its connection to other arts, its narrative, its scripting, its design, its playability..." (my translation)

The variety of clips and editing show just how seriously you all took this topic of video games - bravo!

I am impressed by the wide range of video games showcased in this video. Shows that the people behind this video actually care and are not just saying it to pander to an audience

Antonin Scalia said that? Wow, it's like that Clickhole article, "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point."

Thank you for being so respectful about gaming and gamers in a time when many people think we are the pure evil and mass murderers because we play games.

In grad school in 2011 for my MFA in fine art, I failed my final review because I was told the interactive side scrolling exploration environment I created was "not art"

Thanks to BDG I already knew what a gesamtkunstwerk was going into this.

I love that I can put it on any video, randomly, from this channel and it’ll always be a great and kind watch. A comforting channel for creatives.

Thank you for this.

this video was so moving. I so appreciate The Art Assignment’s willingness to take novel forms of art seriously. y’all also clearly articulated all the great and awful things about video games!! this is so hard to do! thank you for this!