Crisis. Against appearances
04.12.08 > 24.01.09
Opening : 04.12.08, 20h.

Their videogame approximations focus on the socio-political implications of the medium and engage cyber activists, “net-art” and both the habitual and critical and detracting players of videogames. The collective has chosen to use the internet as a platform in order to avoid mass distribution channels. Using simple but incisive formulas, they aim to establish a point of departure for the development of critical games. Since their inception, their work has addressed such themes as: labor conditions, identity and sexual stereotypes, religion and collective memory. Their work as been shown in multiple exhibitions and workshops in: LABoral (Gijón), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Centre d’Art La Panera (Lléida), CCCB (Barcelona), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad (Serbia), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and The Israeli center for Digital Art (Israel), among other institutions.

+ info: www.molleindustria.org

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The free culture game | Videogame in Flash.
A game about the conflict between free culture and copyright, portraying a critical vision of the of the videogame format. The goal of the game is to create and defend the circulation of knowledge. Obliging the player to distribute knowledge before it is absorbed by copyright, the game not only questions up to what point it is possible to claim authorship of ideas but also alludes to those ideas that become the dominion of the market, in order to reactivate them using knowledge.