China Social Science Review

No.4, 2024

 

 

Liu Xiaoyan

 

In the digital age, video games are central to examining aesthetic redemption amid contemporary technological challenges. Game generation is a continuous, iterative process defined by the clash and reconciliation between human artistic intuition and technological application, as well as between heuristic and algorithmic thinking. Yet, the enframing of game engines often transforms this heterogeneous interplay between technology and art into technological capture of artistic processes. By harnessing instinctive and empathetic enjoyment as a regulatory force, it is possible to break free from these constraints, opening new technological possibilities that foster connections with others, objects, the world, and the universe. This reestablishes mechanisms and pathways for the clash and reconciliation and promotes the coevolution of technology and art.