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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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"See, the games community has it backwards: the point is not to "legitimize" games as art, whatever that would mean," said Ian Bogost, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, addressing the National Endowment for the Arts' inclusion of digital games as a potential recipient of funding, which some media outlets have interpreted as legitimizing games as art. "The point is not to shoehorn games into some received, stable, agreed upon notion of what art is, as if there is such a notion. The point is to ask the question, what do videogames do to art? How do they change art, turning it into something new? It's encouraging that the NEA has invited us to consider this question. But its answers are hardly a foregone conclusion." Source: Gamasutra, May 18, 2011.
