Rounding Error - 3 years of C0C0S0L1DC1T1 projects
Opening Reception January 15th, 2005
C0C0S0L1DC1T1 working out of the UK, Canada and France, curate sound,
Internet, video and film based artists from around the world into galleries,
museums, festivals and CD/DVD projects. The artists chosen often have
developped interests in urban issue based art works that have strong
socio-political themes and cross pollinations with architecture, dissonant
electronic media and collaborative cultural production.
"The possibility of Utopia" by Julio Soto
Rounding Error is 3 series of works:
Tensile
Selected works from the previous 3 years of commissioned and curated media
pieces, these worksreflect upon the theme of transient architectures,
including narratives of escape technologies, urban paranoia and mobile
structures which often reference theoretical architects such as Archigram,
Soleri, The Metabolists and others.
Broken Channel
A range of leading international artists working in sound and video present
artistic interpretations of the contemporary experience of surveillance. We
live in a time in which surveillance is running out of control, entering all
aspects of people's day to day lives, encountered not only in the
spectacular cases of terrorist scares, but also in the mundane realities of
supermarkets and motorways, store cards and credit ratings, product tags and
mobile phones. Broken Channel does not pretend to check the spread of
surveillance. Rather, it seeks to simply open up alternative spaces in which
discordant voices can be heard, by presenting diverse visions of a world
beset by surveillance technologies, of a control society running out of
control.
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The National Film Board and Terminus 1525 Festival approached C0C0S0L1DC1T1
to curate a project that looked at propaganda footage from the decade of the
1940's in Canada. Focus is drawn on the role of propaganda films in
contributing to the Canadian national identity which emerged during WWII and
the following years, and to the re-evaluations of these nationalist ideals
made possible through the contemporary deconstructive techniques of
re-mixing, re-scoring and re-editing. 20 Canadian artists were selected to
participate in this project.
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