The new category includes “all available media platforms such as the Internet, interactive and mobile technologies, [and] digital games”. Next year’s projects should each receive $10,000 to $200,000 in taxpayer-funded grants.

Video games will also receive special national recognition from 16 March through 30 September  2012, when a new exhibit, entitled The Art of Video Games, runs at the federally-funded American Art Museum.

Curators claim the exhibit will be the first intensive display of video games to examine their 40-year evolution as part of an artistic medium. It will emphasise the bold visual effects and creative use of new technologies in video games’ presentation and play.

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