Exhibition by institution: a culture work simulator
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Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Art
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Exhibition by Institution: A Culture Work Simulator is an art museum simulator through the first-person perspective of an entry-level cultural worker. The simulator is based on Nanaimo Art Gallery, a regional, publicly funded, art museum in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The premise of the simulator is inspired by tasks required of entry-level gallery employees, some real and others more poetic, and it poses a critique of institutions spurred by neoliberal structures of funding that cause persistent job insecurity in the arts and culture sector. This artwork is a three-dimensional environmental narrative created through an emergent process with digital tools, transposing and appropriating a local organization as a way of exploring virtual space.
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simulator, video game, environmental narrative, cultural worker, space, regional institutions, labour, institutional critique, precarity, memory, new media, Nanaimo, locality, organizational theory, collaboration, phenomenology, appropriation, Video games in art, Institutional Critique (Art movement), Art museums--British Columbia--Nanaimo--Computer simulation, Art museums--Employees--Computer simulation, Precarious employment, Virtual reality in art--Exhibitions, New media art--21st century--Exhibitions, Appropriation (Art), Virtual reality--Exhibitions, Entry-level employees--Computer simulation, Dissertations, Academic