Audiovisual Source Code: Modern Times

Audiovisual Source Code (1), fragmented and commented screening of Modern Times, by Charles Chaplin, with Roc Parés.

With the Industrial Revolution, a worker loses his job because he cannot adapt to the automatic production process. Modern Times is a timeless satirical work that, from the past, brings us ironically closer to the present and speaks to us of contemporary concerns: precariousness, low wages, unemployment, labour exploitation and the pursuit of happiness.

(1) Audiovisual Source Code a session format devised by the Zemos98 collective that is not a screening, but neither is it a lecture: it is a hybrid format and also a game to share the cultural meaning of a work. It borrows from the term source code, which comes from open source programming.

Film details
Director: Charles Chaplin
Country: USA 
Year of production: 1936 
Genre: Fiction
Language: VOSE (original version with Spanish subtitles).

Activity curated by Panòptic


Roc Parés Burguès

Roc Parés is an artist and researcher. His work is characterised by poetic and critical experimentation with new technologies, avoiding technosolutionist approaches and instead focusing on observing how we communicate with these technologies. Since 1995, he has been a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Communication at the UPF. He has presented his pieces at venues such as the CCCB, the Joan Miró Foundation, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), the Tate Gallery (London), the Art Gallery of Ontario and the  Centro Cultural de España en México (CCEMx), among many others.

www.roc-pares.net