Into The Pixel 2011 Winners Announced: Check Out The Artwork

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Posted May 25, 2011 - By Kevin Kelly

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and the Entertainment Software Association puts together a jury of experts each year who select video game artwork to be a part of Into the Pixel. Today, they are announcing 17 works that will become a part of this installation that will travel around the world, beginning at E3 2011, which you can check out right here.

"Now that public institutions have accepted video games as a legitimate form of art, there is no question that video game art has and will continue to have a place in the contemporary art scene," said Martin Rae, president of the AIAS, thereby thumbing his nose at Roger Ebert. When you see these pieces of work up close, either on the screen or in a gallery, there's no denying that a lot of artistic skill and love goes into these pieces, which include work from unreleased games like BioShock Infinite, Orcs Must Die!, Uncharted 3, and more.

Seeing is believing, so head after the break where you can take a look at all of the pieces that were selected, along with a list of the winners.

GALLERY: Into the Pixel 2011 Winners

Into the Pixel winners are selected from a jury of their peers, and this year's judges were:

Glenn Phillips, Getty Research Institute, Senior Project Specialist & Consulting Curator, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art
Nora Dolan - Independent Curator
Ryan Wilkerson, Microsoft Game Studios, Senior Art Director
Matt Hall, Timbuk2 Studios, Senior Partner Production Designer
Brian Moore, Microsoft Game Studios, Art Director

"Into the Pixel showcases the incredible creativity, skill and artistic talent that pervades in the video game industry. You really see that there are great artists working across every genre of video games, and at every stage of the production process.” said Glenn Phillips, Senior Project Specialist & Consulting Curator, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art, at the Getty Research Institute.

The 2011 Into the Pixel collection will be unveiled and presented at the annual E3 Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 7-9, or you can visit our Into the Pixel 2011 gallery and check out all of the art for yourself. This year's winners are:

Title of Artwork	Artist(s)	Game	Company
Amorphous Drake	Lucas Graciano	Legends of Norrath	Sony Online Entertainment
The Bridge	Erik Zaring & Anders Gustafsson	The Dream Machine	Cockroach Inc.
The Cottage	Hamzah Kasom Osman	Drawn 3	Big Fish Games
Chronos Battle	Tyler Breon	God of War III	SCEA/Santa Monica Studio
Dead Walking	Chris Moffitt, Brad Crow, Nathan Stefan, Bart Tiongson	Orcs Must Die!	Robot Entertainment
The Dragon Play	Brian Thompson and Hamzah Kasom Osman	Drawn: Dark Flight	Big Fish Games
Flemmeth	Matt Rhodes	Dragon Age 2	BioWare
Good Friends	Matthew Halpin, Andrew Matthews, Matthew Preece, Radek Walachnia, John Laws	Kinectimals	Frontier Developments Ltd
Grim Exploits	Colin Foran, Claire Hummel, Ryan Wilkerson	Trenched	Microsoft Game Studio/ Doublefine
Incident at the Workshop	Ivan Simoncini	Alien Swarm	Valve Software
Market Fire, Columbia (Shop Sweeper)	Ben Lo	BioShock Infinite	Irrational Games
Normandy	Mikko Kinnunen	Mass Effect 2	BioWare
Oktonok Cay Cannery	David Guertin	Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One	Insomniac Games
Paper World	Say Oh and Damian Kim	Paper World	Namco Bandai Games
The Pelican Inn (Pub)	Andrew Kim	UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception	Naughty Dog, Inc.
Stahl Arms	Jesse van Dijk	Killzone 3	Guerrilla
Swamp Skull	Jeff Haynie	Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull	Big Fish Games

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Zzanzabar

"Now that public institutions have accepted video games as a legitimate form of art, there is no question that video game art has and will continue to have a place in the contemporary art scene," said Martin Rae, president of the AIAS

I HATE this type of self serving double talk. Ebert (and others) do NOT claim that there is no ART in video games, only that the GAME itself cannot be considered ART or an art form, simply because it is interactive. No one will say a movie is not a form of art, but it would NOT be if everyone could take the movie and change it at whim thus destroying the original (take 'colorization' of classic black and white films for instance). Same goes for painting, sculpture and other forms of STATIC art. Don't like Picasso's original art? Then lets repaint the original over and over again then rehang it, but wait, here comes some shmoe with a different take, so redo it yet again. That is NOT art, it is opinion.

There is plenty of art in any video game, hell they have entire teams working on the art work for a game, but no matter how pretty or good a game can be (take L.A. Noir, for instance), the game itself is NOT art and never could be. Not as long as anyone can come along and change the message.

Posted: May 25, 2011 9:35 AM
AxeX1606

Some of these games I've never even heard of, some were of course to be expected. Except Alien Swarm. Out of all of VALVe's games, I wouldn't of expected that one's artwork to get chosen.

Posted: May 25, 2011 9:13 AM
iSpaz

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Posted: May 25, 2011 9:12 AM