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The Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition, or CODE, was a digital art showcase at the 2010 Winter Olympics
2010 Winter Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport event held from February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University...

 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 contributed 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.

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:

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
Chromeo
Chromeo is an electrofunk duo formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2004.-History:Chromeo is composed of P-Thugg on keyboards, synthesizers, and talk box, and Dave 1 on guitar and lead vocals...

 performing to an installation of the Reactable
Reactable
The Reactable is an electronic musical instrument with a tabletop Tangible User Interface that has been developed within the at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain by Sergi Jordà, Marcos Alonso, Martin Kaltenbrunner and Günter Geiger....

 being on display.

CODE Live 1

Featured at the Great Northern Way Campus
Great Northern Way Campus
Great Northern Way Campus Ltd is a private limited company and educational enterprise located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the offspring of a consortium of four local academic institutions that has attracted...

, 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.
  • Acts like: Mike Relm
    Mike Relm
    Michael Wong , better known by his stage name Mike Relm, is an American disc jockey, turntablist, and VJ from San Francisco, California. He has performed with notable hip-hop artists Lyrics Born, Money Mark, Gift of Gab, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, and D-Sharp. In 1999 he won the International...

    , Junior Boys
    Junior Boys
    -History:Junior Boys formed in 1999 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as a duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Years of collaboration followed and a demo was produced, but after many rejections and near-misses, they were resigned to being bedroom beat constructors. Soon after, Johnny Dark left the...

    , The Golden Filter
    The Golden Filter
    The Golden Filter are an electronic duo formed in New York City in 2008. The band consists of Penelope Trappes and Stephen Hindman...

  • Hard Rubber a festival event featuring a 14-piece groove band.
  • Kid Koala
    Kid Koala
    Eric San , who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and an author of graphic novels. He is signed to the British record label Ninja Tune, is a member of alternative hip hop supergroup Deltron 3030, and The Slew with Dynamite D and former members of the...

  • Jamming the Networks: Modern Deep Left Quartet, Mike Shannon
    Mike Shannon
    Thomas Michael Shannon is an American-born former Major League Baseball player and current radio sportscaster.Shannon is a radio broadcaster for the St. Louis Cardinals. He was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and played with the Cardinals during some of the team's most successful years...

  • Bell Orchestre
    Bell Orchestre
    Bell Orchestre is a six-piece instrumental band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.In late 2003, they recorded their first album, at the same time and in the same studio that Arcade Fire recorded Funeral. However, Arcade Fire's popularity was just beginning to break when they asked Bell Orchestre to...

  • Martyn, 2562
    2562 (musician)
    Dave Huismans, better known by his stage name as 2562, is a musician from The Hague, Netherlands. Having previously released records of various musical styles under the monikers A Made Up Sound and Dogdaze, Huismans created 2562, under which his output is generally described as dubstep...

    , Deadbeat
  • Chromeo
    Chromeo
    Chromeo is an electrofunk duo formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2004.-History:Chromeo is composed of P-Thugg on keyboards, synthesizers, and talk box, and Dave 1 on guitar and lead vocals...


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:
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