employed makes all the difference say between photo and 
telegraph. In the arts the particular mix of our senses in the 
medium employed is all-important. The ostensible program 
content is a lulling distraction needed to enable the structural 
form to get through the barriers of conscious attention.

     Any game, like any medium of information, is an 
extension of the individual or the group. Its effect on the group 
or individual is a reconfiguring of the parts of the group or 
individual that are not  so extended. A work of art has no 
existence or function apart from its effects  on human 
observers. And art, like games or popular arts, and like media of 
communication, has the power to impose its own assumptions 
by setting the human community into new relationships and 
postures.