"Are Video Games Fine Art?" with Gregory Bowman

The After Dinner Scholar

Feb 20 2024 • 12 mins

The new Apple Vision Pro headset, we’re told, “delivers fun and rewarding gameplay for players of all skill levels. Players can dive into games on the App Store that transform the space around them, use an Environment for a more immersive experience, or play compatible games on a screen as large as they want.”

What do we make of video games whether on phones, computers, TVs, or inside the Vision Pro? Are they sinful or perhaps as one pastor-theologian remarked, not sinful, but definitely dumb? Or…

Wyoming Catholic College senior, Greg Bowman, entitled his senior oration, “Are Video Games Fine Art?”