Art Contemporary Club
présente La Croix Digital OasisTM
about
Art Contemporary Club
Art Contemporary Club (ACC) is an online exhibition platform which conceives the internet as an independant and alternative space that creates new dialogues and possibilities for underground communities and artists. ACC critiques and celebrates the fetishist human quest to collect artefacts, documents and images, as endless forms of archives in our collapsing world. CTRL+S is the new paradigm of our time.
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Juliette Marzano
Concerned by the new forms of communication and the aesthetics that emerged from them, Juliette Marzano browses virtual spaces in order to question traditional curatorial approach. With a bachelor degree in art history and a minor in communication, she focuses her curatorial process on the ambivalence of power relations as well as emancipatory possibilities of the Internet.
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Raphaëlle Cormier
PhD candidate in semiology, Raphaëlle Cormier is interested in the Archive 2.0, the figure of the Baudelairian flâneur wandering the virtual worlds, and the imaginary of the end of the world in the digital age.
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Exhibition description
In the age of hyper-capitalism, staff productivity has become a focal point for the modern office. In this economy of high-festivity and analgesic entertainment, encouragement to stay longer at the office comes in the form of fun.
Through La Croix Digital OasisTM, a digital art lounge, Art Contemporary Club takes a critical and ironic look at this new form of office engagement otherwise known as business gamification.
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In an optimized corporate atmosphere, somewhere between 1990 and 2018, Art Contemporary Club presents a wide collection of works by both Canadian and American artists in the form of an immersive experience. The artists participating have been known to reference subjects such as virtual communities, dynamics of power within the capitalist system and the emergence of alternate economies from cryptocurrencies.
Welcome to La Croix Digital OasisTM. You're invited to stick around the office and have fun! Get comfortable on our beanbags. Let yourself be carried away by your imagination. Your ideas may be our next success story.