Cultural Olympiad | CODE Live

The CODE Live festival is an 18-day landmark event with visual art exhibitions, music and performances, all informed by digital technology and audience involvement. Conceived to creatively engage audiences nationally and globally through the innovative use of new media and other digital platforms, CODE Live explores and celebrates the extent to which the human imagination has embraced technology and digital interfaces for creative production.

From February 4-21, Emily Carr will host several works that are exemplary of the CODE Live mandate, some of which will be exhibited in Vancouver for the first time. Further CODE Live activities, such as live musical performances, interactive works, sculpture and performance, will take place at Great Northern Way Campus, the Vancouver Public Library, and select sites throughout the city.

On February 6, in conjunction with the official launch of CODE Live, Emily Carr will host a full day symposium on the relationships between digital technologies and creative practices. CODE Dialogues will explore how artistic practices contribute to how we experience technology, our planet, its ecology, and its people. While technology has created a world more closely intertwined through communication, it has also pointed to the challenges of dialogue and participation that virtual distance sometimes cannot surmount.

Bringing together practitioners committed to exploring the interactive and participatory potentials of digital practices, CODE Dialogues will ask how new technologies shape our individual and collective capacities to think, understand, collaborate, and create.

CODE Live
February 5 to 21, 2010
Opening Reception on Thursday, February 4 from 6pm to 8pm