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Posts Tagged public art

Ant Battle: Thursday, 2pm

Posted in Central Park by artist d.billy. Fantastic!  I absolutely love this kind of playful site-specific public art. (via)


tweenbots, kacie kinzer (video)

I have been completely infatuated with this art project by Kacie Kinzer.
She created small types of robot she calls Tweenbots. On her site with a fabulous essay explaining her project, she explains:
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, [...]


Art… or un-called for cruelty?

Sorry, won’t be posting too often in the next little while.  SO much reading to do.  Reading that I should have done yesterday.  Before I was even born!  Fantastic books exist that tantalize me with their awesomeness.  Just finished Too Loud a Solitude by Hrabal, which was one of the best books I have read [...]


Advertisements or public art intervention?

I was in Toronto last weekend visiting my sister and mom. It was tons of fun and delicious meals, as you can see in my recent Flickr pics. We also did some homestyle cooking - and it’s my observation that, after trial and error, Dreena Burton’s Creamy Leek and Potato bake is [...]


Subscribing to an artist’s work: the case of Vorsthammer

For those of you who don’t know, I’m preparing to get into grad school for 2008. My dream program is currently at McGill, set in the heart of beautiful Montreal. Their department, Art History and Communication Studies, is the perfect fit for me to pursue a Comm. Studies degree with a strong focus [...]