_Alt+Ctrl artist, independent game curator focused on technofeminist collective practices, unperforming designer of performative installations , Chloé Desmoineaux_[she/they] lives and works as a digital art teacher at Aix-Marseille University. Inspired by tactical media and hacking practices, they create interactive installations, hijacks video games and reflects on alternative ways of conceiving _painful_and_laborious_ screen-controller interaction.
When they are not bothering themselves by presenting their multiplayer musical adaptation of Snake, or performing the dynamic winner boss to animate the most unfair and exhausting “employee-of-the-month” race, they leave the sadomasochist-tinged playful inventions to give lectures and workshops that traverse various technofeminist practices integrating videogame creation, alternative controllers or speculative fiction writing.
Contrary to what one might think, their aim is not to make people suffer by interacting with their installations, but to create bonds by experimenting with alternative, creative and collective ways of experiencing pleasure of play.
Since 2016, their practice has also embraced a curatorial dimension, giving greater visibility to creators from queer and dissident communities. . In 2017, they organised “ Very Symbiotic conferences”, an intersectional constructivist event on situated knowledge for the tribute event "TRANS//BORDER, les enseignements de Nathalie Magnan" at MUCEM with Reine Prat, Isabelle Carlier and Peggy Pierrot.
They also co-organized the Art Games Demos parties alongside Isabelle Arvers from 2017 to 2023 and co-curated the Institut Français exhibition "S'il Vous Play" with Pierre Corbinais in 2018.
In 2021, they opened the transfeminist hacklab FluidSpace, a weekly meeting where technology is explored through a feminist prism.
Their work has been exhibited internationally, notably in
French Alliance in Costa Rica, Milan Machinima Fesival_Italy, Morocco _French Institute of Tangier_Rabat and Casablanca, Hammer Museum - UCLA Games Art Festival curated by the UCLA GameLab, UNAM Mexico, PODfest digital poetry festival_Rio Brazil, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts _Norway ,Las Deudas_Buenos Aires, Hangar.org_ Barcelona, Le Pavillon_Namur_Belgium, Théâtre de Vidy_Lausanne_Switzerland, Jalloo Festival_New Brunswick_Canada.
In France at La Gaïté Lyrique _Paris, le Grenier à Sel_Avignon, Galerie Biza_ Annecy, RIAM festival_Art-Cade Galerie Bains Douche_Marseille, Transpalette Art Center_Bourges, Super Demain and Les Subsistances_Lyon, La Fabrique d'Art Numérique _Rosny Sous Bois, Le Printemps de Bourges, Le Quai des Savoirs_Toulouse, La Condition Publique_Roubaix, MUCEM_Marseille, Octobre Numérique _Arles...
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