Before I declare Humanity a new member of the Videogames As Art canon, I should confess that I know embarrassingly little about art. My mom is an artist and has worked in art galleries for most of my life. My dad is a photographer. I like and appreciate art, but I have no vocabulary for it—I spent half the time I should've been writing this preview of a brilliant videogame trying to decide if it was an expression of futurism, or constructivism, or minimalism.
Did you know there's a post-minimalism? I should try my hand at being a post-post-minimalist writer and turn in an empty page next time I'm on a deadline. But that wouldn't be fair to Humanity, which I've been playing nightly for the last couple weeks.
