With the digital invading every creative enterprise and form of expression, pencils have become pixels, dreams have turned into data. While cinema’s obsession with the “holy grail” of photorealism has generated a blizzard of visual extravaganzas aimed at a suspension of the distinction between representation and simulation, a generation of DIY bricoleurs use ubiquitious “tools of vizuality” (Kevin Kelly) to explore alternative viewings and readings of the familiar. Through processes of transference, translation and combination, they encode, reveal or impose layers of information and deceive expectations about visibility and availability. Poking the surfaces of various images, sounds and symbols, their renderings create poetic, playful and often melancholic environments that are both alien and familiar, questioning our relation to images and our imagination.

with Stephen Gray, Joseph Ernst, Chirstinn Whyte & Jake Messenger, Oliver Laric, Max Hattler, David O’Reilly, Michael Robinson, Dave Griffiths, Jonathon Kirk, Dietmar Offenhuber, Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin, Nicolas Provost, Bernard Gigounon, Stewart Smith, Kurt D’Haeseleer & Tuk (Live) 

(Altered States is a reworking of the Imagine programme, which was compiled for the Urban Screens Festival in Amsterdam)