MoMA kicked off Contemporary Art Forum: Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form last night with an overview of critical and artist led play. Here are some quotes from the first session: Mary Flanagan: “Is thinking about games as an art form tied to the historic exchanges specific to art history, or is it a cry for legitimacy? If a Conceptual artist is playing Pac-Man in a forest and Pac-Man dies, does the Conceptual artist hear the “wa wa wa wah” sound of his death?” Susan Laxton on Surrealists parlor games (such as the Exquisite Corpse): “Any illusions about the game as a site of…