Category: Artistic Inspiration
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The History of MaRS
We’ve started researching the history of the MaRS building since we are currently considering installing our voices of innovators piece in the lobby. Here’s some info from the MaRS website: ” Long before MaRS acquired it, the Heritage Building was famously associated with excellence in innovation. Formerly the ‘College Wing’ of the Toronto General Hospital […]
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Artistic Research: Installation environments that consider your body
Artist Ernesto Neto Wants To Get Inside Your Nose Ernesto Neto’s new installation anthropodino opens May 14 at the Park Avenue Armory. The installation contains 1,650 lbs of spices, and will be on display through June. — People tend to think of your work in those very formal terms, like space or material. What else…
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Visiting Toronto’s Downtown Labyrinth
As part of our investigation into how sacred spaces function in the public realm we visited and walked the outdoor labyrinth in Trinity Square, between the Eaton centre and Trinity church (Thanks for telling us about it Dave Wolfenden). A labyrinth is not a maze, it’s an ancient design intended to create a meditative, open…
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A kind of group wishing – Noplace September 2008 (Tate exhibit)
MW2MW: Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg, with Jonathan Feinberg, Rory Solomon & Johanna Kindvall Noplace is a Net Art project focussed on notions of Paradise and Utopia, by Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg, who work together under the name MW2MW. Walczak and Wattenberg reach out to unknown others with participatory ‘Web 2.0’ software and an…