Culture
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Halftone Conspiracy this weekend
The Halftone Conspiracy is a collaborative poster project open to anyone. Monthly, the co-conspirators gather, with posters they’ve created in hand...
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[murmur] wants your Spadina Stories!
[murmur] is happy to announce we have started on our biggest project yet: Toronto’s Spadina Avenue. We are currently searching for and recording...
By Shawn Micallef -
Parking Lot of Dreams
The Toronto Star has a good story today dispelling myths about public space in the burbs. The dance troupe Rated Inc. reclaims a Jane and Finch area...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Transmedia 29:59 Launch in Dundas Square
TRANSMEDIA :29:59 A project by Year Zero One Curated by Michael Alstad and Michelle Kasprzak This Wednesday, August 3rd, a programme of one minute videos...
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Coke wants billboard removed
An interesting battle is going down in India between Coca-Cola and photogrpaher Sharad Haksar. He has been using a billboard space for three years to...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Beautiful City Billboard Fee
Them.ca, a Toronto-based non-profit street art organization, announced today the launch of a new project called The Beautiful City Billboard Fee (BCBF)...
By Matthew Blackett -
Get to know the city this weekend
This weekend there are a number of excellent public space related events that are worth checking out. 1. Sorauren Park Summer Festival. Saturday. Spacing...
By Matthew Blackett -
Extreme Subway Makeovers
Could drab, functional Museum station one day feel like an extension of the Royal Ontario Museum, with Greek columns in the place of its current...
By Chris Hardwicke -
URBAN SCREENS 2005
An international conference on the potential for those huge TVs that proliferate our cities will be held in Amsterdam this September. Similar to the piece...
By Shawn Micallef -
Toronto Trolls
The Toronto Troll project is currently running at Mercer Union. They’re going to do art stuff in the city at night to remind us that the city still...
By Shawn Micallef -
Vienna goes ad-free
All the signs in a popular Vienna shopping district have been swathed in bright yellow fabric as part of an art project designed to spark debate about...
By Matthew Blackett -
In no way removed
While parks are recreational spaces where an individual or group can take a break from the urban environment, the parkette’s natural environmental...
By Matthew Blackett