https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/asalter/Recent content in Asalter on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USThu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-2/playing-through-the-art-of-video-games-exhibit-by-anastasia-salter/Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-2/playing-through-the-art-of-video-games-exhibit-by-anastasia-salter/<p>The new “<a href="http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/" title="Art of Video Games exhibit site">Art of Video Games</a>” exhibit at the <a href="http://americanart.si.edu/" title="Smithsonian American Art Museum">Smithsonian American Art Museum</a> is exceptional for its venue, if not its content or interpretation. Although <a href="http://www.icheg.org/" title="Strong International Center for the History of Electronic Games">The Strong International Center for the History of Electronic Games</a> and <a href="http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/" title="American Classic Arcade Museum">The American Classic Arcade Museum</a> hold collections of video games and offer venues for playable histories of the medium, the exhibition of video games in the Smithsonian marks an institutional endorsement of the medium as art form.</p>