Matari 69200 / artist:
/ Rolando Sánchez


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Rolando Sánchez
Matari 69200, 2005
Video game


The Matari 69200 project focuses on the political violence suffered during the 1980s in Peru. The medium used by the artist for this purpose is a video game and the ATARI 2600, a very popular video game console during the same decade. The number “69200” in the title refers to the number of fatalities during the war. The armed conflict was between the Peruvian government, represented by the Army, and the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla. Thousands of people were murdered and tortured and many others disappeared. The brutality came from a fundamentalist guerrilla and from the police force who carried out an abusive and indiscriminate repression that did not respect any human rights. The same TV screen that showed images of this war was also used for playing Pac Man and Space Invaders. Matari 69200 conflates these two experiences into a video game based on episodes of a real war.

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

On going...

Molior presents [IR]Rationnel by Michal Seta at Eureka! Festival: Science Here, There and Everywhere
 > posted on June 8 2010

In conjunction with the Montréal Science Centre and the Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal, Molior presents [IR]Rationnel, the interactive sound installation by artist Michal Seta


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A new partnership agreement between Molior and the Montréal Science Centre
 > posted on April 30 2010

Molior is delighted to announce the signature of a three-year strategic alliance with the Montréal Science Centre (MSC). The agreement will yield many projects that unite media arts and science.

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Online catalogue Restraint
 > posted on December 17 2009

Thanks to an agreement with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art,
Science, and Technology, the Contrainte/Restraint exhibition catalogue will appear in a special publication.

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