In the Fall of 2009, while Emily Carr University of Art + Design prepared to host CODE Live, students in a directed studies course with Emily Carr’s artists-in-residence Jer Thorp, M Simon Levin and Dennis Rosenfeld considered the implications and opportunities of observing, and being observed, in one of the most photographed locations in the city. During the 2010 Olympic Games, Granville Island, already a photo-saturated environment, will be shot from every angle: images from tourists’ cameras and cell- phones mix with surveillance and media images to document every moment from every conceivable perspective.

The product of this residency and months of dialogue and research with students, faculty, staff and alumni from across Emily Carr programs and within the larger cultural community, CODE.lab is a publicly-sited art project that asks visitors to consider questions of surveillance as they are met with a set of performances, constructions and interventions on the Island.

CODE.lab is: Jer Thorp, M. Simon Levin, Dennis Rosenfeld, Jay Pozo, Amy Zion, Kate Sansom, Lyndl Hall, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Emma Walter, Brodie Kitchen, Davide Pan, Makiko Yoshii, Monique Levesque, Dean Bennett, Catherine Dong, Karen Garrett de Luna, Rinat De Picciotto, Julia Higgs and Byron Peters, Josh Hite, Diana Wu, and John Deveaux