ABOUT
A journey through a Europe transformed into a gigantic non-place at the wheel of a truck.
At the wheel of a virtual truck, I'm going to take you on a tour of Europe as represented in the video game Eurotruck Simulator 2. The game consists of nothing but freeways and industrial zones, turning Europe into a gigantic "non-place", to use Marc Augé's term. Having grown up in the suburbs of Paris, with their roads and supermarkets, I found in this virtual territory one of the only representations of my daily environment, a sort of Metaverse before its time, where everything is consumerism. So I'm going to share my enthusiasm with you via a few hours' road trip.
ARTIST BIO
Graphic designer, Fablab manager, digital trainer, video games journalist, Xavier Klein loves computers and computers likes him. Fascinated by the concrete impact of new technologies on everyday life, he develops digital mediation workshops as well as performances and devices to show how they work and their consequences.