Organized by the IRIEC research center, the conference partakes of the research undertaken by ECART (Études culturelles des Arts et technologies) on the connection between dominant culture and contemporary artistic creation, more specifically between what is called contemporary art and mass culture (comics, video games). The conference will examine the links that tie contemporary creation to the counter culture, bearing in mind that the concept, inherited from the 60s, may have lost its validity when used both as the testimony of a protest movement, and the symptom of adaptability to the dominant cultural ideology.