Curators Statement
Exhibition. Centre Culturel Canadien, May 16 – 20
Art and/or Game: Symbiosis or Dissonance? is an exhibition that looks at some current practices in the very vibrant area where experimental games meet related art practices. Experimental games seek to resist the hegemony of the huge international digital games industry by presenting a profusion of local, personal and community-based alternatives that stretch the game form expressively and critically.
The exhibition brings together a selection of artists and game designers from Canada and France with very different approaches to this interstitial space. The works range from the explicitly political and activist to those with more implicit and poetic integration of social critique, from the very figurative to the abstract, and from more traditional screen game formats to ones with physical interfaces of different types.
The game-work by the collective Disnovation.org is part of ISEA’s official programming. This project is funded by the European MASC-RISE programme under grant agreement n°101007915.
Visitors are invited to play on site with all the games presented in the exhibition.
Artists:
- Disnovation.org (France), ISEA2023 selected artists collective
- Ahreum Lee (Canada),
- Enric Llagostera (Canada),
- Raphaëll Maïwen (Canada),
- Santiago Tamayo Soler (Canada),
- Tatiana Vilela Dos Santos (France)
https://canada-culture.org/en/event/art-et-ou-jeu-symbiose-ou-dissonance
- Lynn Hughes, Milieux Institute for Art, Culture and Technology and the TAG Games Research Centre at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Nathalie Bachand, Independent curator and artistic co-director at Sporobole, Contemporary Art Centre (Ndakina/Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada),
- Catherine Bédard, Curator and Deputy Director, Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris, France)