Infinite Contentment: Ladyboss is one part of a series of playable videogame artworks which tell the story of a fictional game-ified economy. The series debuted at the gallery Nguyen Wahed in New York City on May 6, and is presented here in a brief video loop.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Mitchell F Chan is a conceptual artist based in Toronto, described by the critic Kevin Buist as “committed to the most serious ideas of conceptualism in the most playful way possible.” His recent projects include: The Zantar Triptych, a series of real videogames set inside a fictional videogame economy; The Boys of Summer, an interactive artwork about quantification and data collection, disguised as a sports management simulation; and Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge, an allegorical arcade game about Reconstruction-era America. His pioneering blockchain artwork Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, 2017, was recently exhibited in “Monte di Pietá” at the Fondazione Prada concurrent with the 60th Venice Biennale.