FACTS CONCERNING CONTEMPORARY ART, POPULAR CULTURE AND INTERNET: FROM EXPERIMENTOS CULTURALES TO LA SELECTA - COOPERATIVA CULTURAL

Abstract

This paper discusses two online projects in Ecuador. The parting moment is the work of the art collective Experimentos Culturales (2001- 2009), then describes different practices undertaken by La Selecta - Cooperativa Cultural between 2009 and 2013. This article approaches the process that controls the merging of Experimentos Culturales and relates its presence in the context of an economic crisis at the beginnings of 2000. This project is seen like a multidisciplinary response that suggests the use of independent platforms as a way of thinking contemporary art in a precarious period for art in Ecuador. After that, this paper sees some practices of La Selecta - Cooperativa Cultural, this group followed by some members of Experimentos Culturales, persists in the work lines of the former group and rethinks its practices, as well.

Keywords: Contemporary ecuadorian art, On line projects, Experimentos Culturales, La Selecta - Cooperativa cultural, Cultural management.