C.A.F.E Communication Access For Everyone
March 2016
The artists : K. Galloway and S. Rabinowitz, Norman T. White, Chris Marker, Mark Amerika, Denis Rojo aka Jaromil, Fabien Zocco, Pall Thayer, Studio Moniker, Nicolas Maigret, Carlin Brown,Valentin Godard, Delphine Auby.
C.A.F.E. is an exhibition showcased in at Lyon in a Cyber Café and visible on any computer connected to internet :
This exhibition was part of the Mirage Festival, presented in a format called « speedshow » (created by the artist Aram Bartholl). This format consists on renting all computers from a Cyber Café to transform it into an ephemeral museum.
The exhibition presents some forms and artists’s thinkings who work with notions of digital flow, exchange and network as a source of creation.
By gathering heterogeneous artworks, from the seventies to nowadays, this exhibition brings to the public some esthetics , concepts and questions raised by the development of the techniques of telecommunication.
His title C.A.F.E. – Communication Access For Everyone – refer to the first Electronic Café International (ECI) invented by the artists Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz in 1984 [1]
[1] Café Électronique : http ://www.ecafe.com
