In 2021, a Concordia University student attempts to email his art history professor. Searching for his address, he finds an obituary. François-Marc Gagnon had died in 2019, but his recorded lectures were still used to teach online classes, unknown to his students.
Infinite Games diagrams the possible afterlives available to us in this age of seemingly endless digital reproduction, whether these be accidental, engineered, posthumous or even prehumous. Death is no longer a solely private or physical event but is performed and mediated daily through online spaces. We experience it vicariously through our feeds, the content we consume and the video games we play. These mediated experiences of death inevitably shape our modern rituals and identities. Each new avatar created online contains a potential afterlife, and every life played, a small death. A new kind of immortality emerges in the ability to die and return indefinitely : the eternal return as a way to become infinite.
Contributors:
Alfred Muszynski
Alfred Muszynski est un artiste basé à Montréal. Titulaire d’un BFA de l’Université Concordia (2021), sa pratique croise la peinture à l’huile, le numérique et la recherche anthropologique afin de cartographier la culture internet et ses dissonances stylistiques. Ses oeuvres ont été présentées à Artch (Montréal), InterAccess (Toronto), House of Arts Brno (République tchèque), le Centre Culturel Georges Vanier (Montréal) et Lower Cavity (Holyoke, MA). Il contribue aussi régulièrement à Do Not Research, une communauté en ligne fondée par l’artiste Joshua Citarella.
