Culture
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SPACING EVENT: Repair Club comes to Toronto
The Repair Club comes to Toronto Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 • 7pm, free Innis College Town Hall (off St. George, just north of Harbord on U of T...
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Transmedia :29:59 November: Webcam Art
Year Zero One has just released November’s new content as part of TRANSMEDIA :29:59, a year long exhibition on the pedestrian level video billboard...
By Michelle Kasprzak -
Behind the billboards
A fine arts student in Poznan, Poland has created a wonderful public art installation that I have wanted to do for years, but had no idea where to start...
By Matthew Blackett -
Access All Areas book launch tonight
Even though Ninjalicous, the creative force behind Infiltration, passed away in late August he is still helping us go to places where we are told not to...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Bubble Project
The bubble project is a great idea for tagging advertising in public space: Our communal spaces are being overrun with ads. Train stations, streets...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Sidewalk art in Ward 19
City Councillor Joe Pantelone’s office (ward 19) have a neat pilot project going on: they have convinced Bell to let them hire local artists to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Eglinton Station Gets Arty
Toronto’s Live With Culture campaign is taking artwork and performance out of the galleries and theatres and bringing it to where people live, work...
By Shawn Micallef -
Billboards and art in Halifax
Whenever I see a billboard or ad that has little or no information on it, I suspect a sneaky but clever ad campaign. Contact, the photo festival that...
By Matthew Blackett -
Big blooming bunny art
Spacing‘s next issue, due out in early November, is all about street and public art, so we are becoming increasingly aware of the controversy...
By Matthew Blackett -
Metro Art
John MacFarlane writes about the art of the Montreal Metro in the Gazette: At $2.50 for a cash ticket, Montreal’s metro system is probably the...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Wild Capitalism Hunting Games in Calgary
I’m in Calgary for the Art City festival. We’ve set up three [murmur] sites out here. Calgary isn’t the place I thought it was. Very car...
By Shawn Micallef -
12 Lessons from 12 Cities
The Globe and Mail’s Tralee Pearce offers Mayor Miller some tips from other cities ranging from free wireless networks, public events, wind powered...
By Chris Hardwicke