CFC Media Lab Alumni, Tom Kuo and Rachel Vulliens, exhibit “PaCuBox” at VANOC’s CODE Live (Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition), a festival celebrating Canadian culture and talent into the digital sphere running February 4-21, 2010.
PaCuBox is a participatory installation with four miniature galleries placed in unexpected outdoor locations throughout Metro Vancouver (See map). The galleries will feature artwork from artists around Canada. Visitors can give their thoughts about the art through a 1-800 telephone number or a website.
Whether immediate – like a tornado, to the long-term eradication of our species and the probable takeover of the cockroach, to the small hope of a more positive future, we are quickly becoming a world where natural disasters are quickly becoming a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. This exhibit serves to highlight this phenomenon by creating tiny moments of awareness about the environment around us.
The artist collective PaCu, which stands for ‘Participatory Culture’, is the inspiration behind PaCu Boxes, where unassuming urban locations are brought to life through small, public art installations. Four miniature galleries are placed throughout Vancouver for the public to discover. Online, one can comment, offer new ideas and carry on a discussion around these small creations. PaCu sees the boxes as a physical version of blogs; a way to create an equal access network for anyone to both see and create works of art in an everyday situation.
Artist Biographies:
TOM KUO is an award winning designer, producer, sound engineer, technical director and installation artist. Tom Kuo is a versatile professional with extensive experience in creating multimedia installations in custom-designed spaces. His company, Foundation Creative Studio, specializes in conceptualizing and producing projects for clients who seek meaningful and engaging experiences for their audiences. Tom is well-recognized for his capacity to deliver imaginative and exciting events that effectively communicate the core message of the project.
RACHEL VULLIENS studied film and art at the ECAL/University of art and design in Lausanne where she graduated in 2002 with an award from the Manganel foundation. After a year and a half studying computer science at the University of Genevashe, she left to record an album with her band Kunst and direct an interactive live cinema project for the festival LesUrbaines. In February 2006 she studied at the Canadian Film Centre New Media Lab in Toronto where she met Tom Kuo with whom she coproduced PaCuBox. Since Fall 2008 she is assistant in the film department at the HEAD/university of art and design in Geneva.
Curated by Anthea Foyer
Anthea Foyer is an organizer, artist, curator, writer, schemer and an enthusiast of all strange and whimsical. Her work centres around ideas of collaborative narrative which manifests in various forms including performance, sculpture, digital narratives, video and a variety of other mediums. She holds an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice from Goldsmiths College, London, UK and holds a BA in Sculpture from the University of Calgary.
**WE WILL BE REVEALING A NEW ARTIST AND THEIR PACUBOX LOCATION ON <STABLETALK> EVERY DAY THIS WEEK! STAY TUNED!**
