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• The Netherlands do it right: public art in institutionalized spaces

  March 29, 2011 in architecture, design, public places

  Every project on this site is cause for celebration. Could we take such care with our public spaces in Canada and fund artists to create such sensitive interactions? I would like that kind of commission. Daylight and sunlight are absorbed by color filters and reflective material that are subsequently projected onto an opal screen. These [...]

• Winter

  December 19, 2010 in Poetry

  Flies arriving on the backdoor, big black bottles yearning to be let out. I oblige sweeping them into the frozen air.

• “The vital principle is not the love of knowledge, but the love of change.”

  November 18, 2010 in Poetry

  I just ran across this (kind of) curatorial statement on the blog of Daniel Campbell Blight for a 2009 painting and etching show he curated called ‘On Land’. The piece below, written by Vince Stephen, really touched and intrigued me. I love the combination of poetic language, economic critique and the evocation of nostalgia in [...]

• Storify is trying to change the way we tell stories on the web

  October 12, 2010 in mashups, media models, newspapers

  Is it viable? I’ll try a few to check it out. It’s a kind of ajax enabled live feed of one’s tweet feeds and and all the other big name aggregators of all kinds of media, so Flickr images and YouTube videos can be located using a handy search bar on the left, dragged into [...]

• Noémie Lafrance – choreographs in weird places

  August 22, 2010 in architecture, dance

  Sens Productions The site-specific performances, installations and films directed by choreographer Noémie Lafrance explore human movements in man-made landscapes, creating a performance language that interacts with the environment and the audience. Each creation uses an existing indoors/outdoors public site or piece of urban architecture as the setting and inspiration for the performance. The choreography constructs [...]