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“Signal chains” Turns Up the Heat at the Alternator Centre

Sep 7, 2020

**REVISED VERSION**

Exhibition: Signal Chains
Artist: Steven Cottingham
Date: September 18, 2020 – October 31, 2020
Location: Alternator Centre, Main Space

“Signal chains” Turns Up the Heat at the Alternator Centre

An upcoming exhibition at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art invites visitors to contemplate differences between reality and realism.

The exhibition titled “Signal chains” by artist Steven Cottingham is in touch with this era of deep fakes and fake news.

Cottingham suggests that constructed images, like advertisements, shape our reality. These media forms may not truly represent our diverse, individual experiences of reality, and yet they situate us into our daily roles as workers, citizens, and subjects.

By using special software, Cottingham has illustrated doubtful but nonetheless realistic (that is, believable) events. A car burns on a soundstage, using both staged commercial production techniques and spontaneous protest strategies. Heat radiates out from the electronics, giving a physical element to the virtual.

Cottingham hopes for visitors to “grasp the slippage between signs and their signifiers in this disorienting media landscape where nothing seems to add up”

“Signal chains” is on view from September 18th until October 31, 2020.

Steven Cottingham is an artist and curator based in Vancouver. Cottingham holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited across Canada, the US and Cuba, as well as several locations in Europe.

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The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is an artist-run centre located in Kelowna at
the Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Avenue. The Alternator Centre for
Contemporary Art is a registered non-profit charitable organization dedicated to the
development of the creative community. Since 1989, the Alternator has shown the work
of emerging Canadian artists, focused on innovative and non-traditional mediums
engaged in social and cultural issues.

September 3, 2020
Attn Editors: For more information, images, or to schedule an interview with the artist
please contact Lorna McParland at [email protected] or 250-868-2298.]

Company Contact Information:

Company: Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
Contact Name: Abigail Bos
Contact Email: [email protected]
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