In-Site Toronto is a series of newly commissioned artwork that is presented on the portal pages of several wireless internet hotspots in the Wireless Toronto network. Artists Dave Dyment, Swintak, Jeremy Bailey, Fedora Romita, Willy Le Maitre and Brian Joseph Davis have created works that will be automatically displayed when users log in to their Wireless Toronto user account at designated hotspots. The project was launched on March 31, 2010 at the launch of Spacing's latest issue. Like sculptural public art, these works oblige the attention of Wireless Toronto users, even if just for a moment, on their personal devices and in everyday situations. The commissioned projects comment on the location they reside in, or link to it in a more oblique way. For example, Fedora Romita has created an extensive verbal description of Dundas Square, and invites the participation of the public in contributing to this cataloguing of one of Toronto's most rapidly-changing public spaces. Swintak's work consists of multiple wanted posters, inviting participation from the public in tasks ranging from moving a three tonne concrete cube to using massage as a method of nonverbal communication between people of disparate socioeconomic status. Her work solicits a range of participant labourers as wide as the range of products available at St. Lawrence Market, where her work is situated. Willy Le Maitre has developed an "art drug", which is an actual capsule that is being dispensed in one of Toronto's art hubs, along with a companion website.

Terminal Zero One - Digital Art Exhibition at Toronto's Pearson International Airport Terminal 1 — Level 3 Terrace, Departures Level July 1, 2007 — January 13, 2008 Terminal Zero One (T01) is a site-specific digital art exhibition of five projects exploring themes of contemporary air travel and the architecture of airports. T01 is curated by David Jhave Johnston and Michael Alstad of the Year Zero One collective. The T01 kiosk, designed by Toronto-based W I D E Studio, is located across from the Ingo Maurer water sculpture on level 3 departures (pre-security) at Terminal 1. Airports are networks, and ...

Artistic Competition of the KVB Kà¶lner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG Design of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Sà¼d Stadtbahn Kà¶ln) Call for entries - Submission Deadline: 31 July 2007 The KVB Kà¶lner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG (the public transport company of the city of Cologne) have initiated an international art competition for the artistic design of eight stations - seven below and one above ground - of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Sà¼d Stadtbahn Kà¶ln). In two resolutions of the Cologne City Council, the KVB were commissioned to organize the competition, which was launched on 18 May 2007 with the ...

This week at the Design Exchange: OURTOPIAS: Ideal cities and the roles of design in remaking urban space June 14 - 16, 2007 This interdisciplinary conference, the second presented by the Design Exchange, Canada's National Design Centre, seeks to explore the varied and future states of cities. Interested in the roles cities play in the economic, social and cultural lives of societies, such topics as the architectural, design and material culture of cities, densification, urban renewal, branding, zoning, adaptive re-use, gentrification, social responsibility and historic preservation will be explored. Also, related and relevant topics will be addressed, including: greenspace ...

Every Bus Stop in Surrey, Sylvia Grace Borda, 2004. Dubious Views is a bilingual online exhibition funded by the Virtual Museum Project of Canada, and produced by Gallery TPW. Every time you open your eyes, a hundred different sources vie for your attention. This spectacle - the cacophonous accumulation of images superimposed over the "real" world - is built by everything from advertisements to entertainment to government. This institutional view of the world can come to stand in for and suppress any other visions or versions that might be out there. The two sections ...

Sol Le Witt, ‘Map of Amsterdam without the Amstel River', 1976, Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Mapping the City, a recent exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, approached the subject of urban life from the evolving perspectives of artists over the past forty years. Driven by broad questions such as “How do we experience the street?”, the exhibition proposes answers in the form of video, installation, photography, and ephemera. One of the first works that confronts the visitor is Amsterdam without the Amstel River, by Sol Le Witt, which sets a tone ...

Pictures, an intervention by Mandla Reuter that featured at Madrid Abierto 2007. MADRID ABIERTO 2008: CALL FOR ARTISTS Deadline: 15th June 2007 For more information: www.madridabierto.com abierto -at- madridabierto.com Public art festival MADRID ABIERTO opens the call for participation for its 5th edition, that will take place during the month of February, 2008. The program will present a series of interventions of ephemeral or temporary character in the center of Madrid, which will be selected from proposals generated by this call for participation. Also, there is a specific call for audiovisual and sound works. Artists from every country may participate, whether individually or ...

Zurich, Switzerland, which was rated number one What foreign postings are most coveted by expatriate executives? To find out, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, which provides advice to multinational companies on international assignments, has come up with a global ranking of the world's most livable cities based on 39 key quality-of-life issues. They include political stability, currency-exchange regulations, political and media censorship, school quality, housing, the environment and public safety. Mercer collected the data between September and November of 2006 and considered 215 cities around the globe. Switzerland's main commercial and cultural center, Zurich, topped the list this ...

In-Site Montréal is a collection of site-specific art presented on the portal pages of five wireless internet hotspots. Artists Nicolas Fleming, Maria Legault, and Virginie Laganià¨re have created site-specific art works that can be viewed simply by connecting to the àŽle Sans Fil network at the selected hotspots. Though the project is best viewed in-situ, you can also view the works produced by the artists for the hotspot locations at the In-Site Montréal micro-site. From the curator's essay: The virtual spaces that In-site Montréal inhabit are amorphous areas around several accepted gathering places such as cafés, galleries, ...

Canada25 has just launched its fourth national policy report: "Canadians & the Common Good: Building a Civic Nation Through Civic Engagement." From the news release: "The report affirms the value of civic engagement -- defined as the process of interacting more often and more meaningfully with others in respect of civic issues -- as the most promising means to build a shared civic identity and, by extension, a stronger country. In discussing the importance of civic engagement in building stronger individuals and communities, Canada25 proposes twenty policy recommendations along five themes: * Develop understanding of a national civic identity * ...