The Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris organizes the exhibition Code is law curated by Carine le Malet and Jean-Luc Soret. This event is inspired by issues outlined in an article by Lawrence Lessig (Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Founder of the Center for Internet and Society), who has made a manifesto on, among other things, the ubiquity of code, net neutrality and the eminently contemporary issue of regulating cyberspace. The exhibition brings together Belgian and international artists based in Brussels and Wallonia. The proposal of the two curators revolves around an interdisciplinary approach to the practice of computer code in contemporary art.
In our interconnected societies whose every dimension now seems to be organized by computer rationality, “Code is law” invites us to take a step aside by crossing an archipelago of works that illustrate the aesthetic potential, the poetic scope of programming in art, but also its political dimension, whether it is the promise of a positivist vision of technology, a dream of symbiotic development with our environment, or whether it is a question of the consensual plundering of our personal data, of natural resources or the perils that the omnipresence of algorithms brings to bear on our cognitive abilities, our private lives and our freedoms...
– Carine le Malet and Jean-Luc Soret
Asli Seven (Turkey) is a recipient of the residency programme "Cité internationale des arts & Centre National des Arts Plastiques".