Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition

Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition

The Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition, or CODE, was a digital art showcase at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. The festival, which lasted from February 4 to 21, was the first of its kind at a major sporting event, showcasing the new digital media styles in art, music, and film.

First conceived in 2007, the growth of social networking sites attributed to the eventual popularity of the event. One of the installations, Vectorial Elevation (a spotlight-based light installation over Vancouver's English bay), had over 20,000 individual design submissions.

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Vancouver public spaces

Throughout the time of the CODE festival, not only a number of small areas turned into exhibition areas, but the city itself transforms with digital art displays. Some of these pieces are:

  • Vectorial Elevation: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Canada)
  • Fearless Mobile, OMG IM ON DOT TV, Untold Histories: W2 Community Media Arts Society (Canada)
  • Glocal Urban Screen Project: Surrey Art Gallery (Canada)
  • Intersection 2010: Bright Light: Presented by the City of Vancouver (Canada)
  • NeoGrafik: NomIg (Ed Jordan, Stephanie MacKay), Alexis Laurence
  • PaCuBoxes: Tom Kuo, co-presentation with the Canadian Film Centre (Canada)

All these installations are attempting to connect to the largest audiences possible, unlike the smaller exhibits.

CODE Collections

One internet Installation, CODE collections, showcased various aspects of landscape, culture, and people of Canada. Each collection was prefaced by a short introduction in both English and French, followed by pages of submitted photographs.

CODE screen

accessible wherever one can find a computer screen, this section of CODE showcased creations of Canada's visual artists. nearly 20 recipients of the Governor General's Awards for Visual and Media Arts will have work on display. using an application, users were able to use an interactive catalog to easily find something they could enjoy.

Some pieces are:

  • Colour Shift[1]
  • Let the Light Be[2]
  • Consumerism - I Shop Therefore I am?[3]
  • Naturally[4]
  • When the Night Comes[5]
  • Books, Records[6]
  • Contains Animal Byproducts! — Pet Food for the Brain[7]
  • Corporatization – A Persistent L’il System[8]
  • Test Pattern [9]
  • The Stuff of Us — Our Objects Ourselves[10]
  • If These Walls Could Talk — Room for reflection[11]
  • Competition — Winning isn't Everything[12]
  • The Art of Knowledge — When seeing is believing.[13]
  • Group Show — Groups bring us together. Groups place us apart.[14]

CODE Live

CODE live, blended interactive art with digital music. placing the events at three well-known sites, events ranged from artists such as Chromeo performing to an installation of the Reactable being on display.

CODE Live 1

Featured at the Great Northern Way Campus, a center for teaching Digital art and new media. featured the following exhibits:

  • 787 cliparts Oliver Laric(Austria)
  • Artificial MoonWang Yuyang, curated by Li Zhenhua (China)
  • Cambridge Bay: A Time and a Place: Souns featuring Tanya Tagaq (Canada)
  • Condemned Bulbes: Artificiel (Canada
  • Dune 4.0: Studio Roosegaarde (Netherlands)
  • Foreign Voices, Common Stories (Ghettoblaster): James Phillips, presented by Analogue Nostalgia (Canada)
  • Instant Places: Canada CODE: Ian Birse, Laura Kavanaugh (Canada)
  • Paparazzi Bots: Ken Rinaldo (USA)
  • PLAY: The Hertzian Collective: Geoffrey Shea (Canada)
  • Reactable: Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso (Austria, Spain)
  • Breaking the Ice: Society for Arts and Technology (Canada) at Great Northern Way Campus and the Bibliotèque de Montréal
  • Vested: Don Ritter (Canada)
  • We Are Stardust: George Legrady (Canada)
  • Where Are You? : Luc Courschene (Canada)

Eco Art

This section of exhibitions used the new technologies of digital media to take an active role in raising awareness of ecology and resource depletion.

CODE live 2

located at Emily Carr University, the use of unconventional exhibit spaces allowed for a unique venue for participatory art. Acts include:

  • The Paradise Institute: Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada (Canada)
  • CODE.lab: M. Simon Levin and Jer Thorp with Emily Carr students and faculty (Canada)
  • *glisten)HIVE: Julie Andreyev, Maria Lantin and Simon Overstall (Canada)
  • Odd Spaces: Faisal Anwar (Canada)
  • Song of Solomon: Julian Jonker and Ralph Borland (South Africa)
  • CODE Dialogues: Co-presented with Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Canada)
  • Electromode: Curated by Valérie Lamontagne (Canada) / Peau d’Âne
  • Blue Code, Jacket Antics and Tornado Dress: Barbara Layne, Studio subTela (Canada)
  • Company Keeper and Emotional Ties: Sara Diamond (Canada)
  • Electric Skin and Barking Mad: Suzi Webster with Jordan Benwick (Canada)
  • Peau d'Âne: Valerie Lamontagne (Canada)
  • Skorpions and Captain Electric : Joanna Berzowska, XS Labs (Canada)
  • Tendrils: Thecla Schiphorst (Canada)
  • Walking City and Living Pod: Ying Gao (Canada)

CODE Live 3

Within the Public Libraries central branch on Georgia St. lies the centre of the city. here many people pass through on their way from one point to another. Features Include:

  • Seen: David Rokeby (Canada)
  • The Sacred Touch: Ranjit Makkuni (India)
  • When the Gods Came Down to Earth: Srinivas Krishna (Canada)
  • Room to Make Your Peace : 2010

CODE Live Night Life

For eight nights, electronic musicians played at the Great Northern Way campus, these exhibits were not free but included many popular artists.

CODE motion pictures

Here is showcased over 50 Canadian filmmakers. A common theme amongst there films, because of the center around winter sports, is the movement of the human body. Films were shown both online or on larger projection screens at "celebration sites"

Some films are:

  • 365 Directed by: Matt Embry [15]
  • Aerial Artistry Directed by: Talia Pura [16]
    Momentum Directed by: Sheona Mcdonald [17]
  • Patin futé Directed by: Jonathan Beaudry Lontinville, Mélanie Breton, Diana M. Cortijo, Emmanuel Lagacé, Priscillia Rousseau, Christine Thériault [18]
  • Duet Directed by: Raul Sanchez Inglis [19]
  • RGB Move Directed by: Ryan Enn Hughes [20]
  • Geared-up Directed by: Kenneth Sherman.[21]
  • Sheng Qi (Souffle de vie) Directed by:Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer [22]
  • Climb Directed by: Brett Bell [23]
  • Play Directed by: Lisa Porter [24]

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