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Hey Knut, I am of two minds on the whole gaming thing. One part of me is not that interested in playing most video games, but there is another part of me that feels that "play" and "games" are vital concepts. Also, that the idea of the interactive is really important to art right now and may be the best strategy to being relevant in our culture today. I am also split in just what we should be pursuing with games and interactivity, do we work with games designed for education or games created as art? You can't have both because art made to be educational is almost certain to fail. Also, Knut, simply put we are not great commercial artists. We get bored, we get restless, we get angry and worse yet we make mediocre commercial art. And games for education tend to be commercial affairs. Having said that, I think that Jane McGonigal's proposition to use games to collectively solve our most pressing problems is too damn inspiring not to make our first post here at uh...game. So, check out her website Her TED video is pretty awesome....