C5 Corporation

C5 (active 1990–2009, San Jose, California) was an art collective that specialized in cultural production informed by the blurred boundaries of research, art, and business practice. C5’s guiding principle was “theory as product” and their work focused on the development of tactical strategies involving information visualization, databases, and distributed networks. C5 projects have been featured at institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University, Phoenix; and the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California. C5 representatives have participated in international symposia and festivals including Transmediale, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; and the Second International Biennial, Buenos Aires (2002).