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# Marcel Duchamp already explained videogames for you.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/marcel-duchamp-already-explained-videogames-you/
- Published: 2012-08-23T16:30:10.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:57:39.000Z
- Description: From his 1954 treatise “The Creative Act:” The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. That was easy.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

From his 1954 treatise “[The Creative Act](http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/?ref=killscreen.com):”

> The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

That was easy.