Kids and art in SL

Today some groups of children visited the exhibition. They ran up the stairs as soon as they saw the computer images on the wall. They asked me whether it was a computer game…well..I said…actually it is an artwork created with a computer. They didn´t quite understand the concept of a computer artwork. They thought an artwork should either be a painting or a sculpture…plain and simple…I then tried to explain it further but they all argued that the way it looked it had to be a computer game. I guess they have their definition of art from teachers or visits to more traditional museum exhibitions. It was certainly difficult to persuade them that art can be made with a computer….Maybe next time they see a digital artwork they won´t be as hesitant to acknowledge it as art…