For this years 17th annual Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto, the lineup of projects in art and technology were featured under the theme of Open Culture: Participatory Practices in Art and Science. Topics of conversation, symposium titles and artworks focused on publicly engaged practices that respond to an ecological environment, cultural engagement, political conflict or […]
Invest Ottawa Installation – Post-Mortem
December 1st, 2013We figured it would best to have all creators’ perspectives in this last post about this project, and so it will be split into three following sections (please click on the links to go to each respective section): Anthony’s final thoughts “The End” Henri’s building processes “”On the Right Path” Kevin and what it is […]
Walk This Way: Part Three
September 14th, 2013It is tempting to think about how the performance interventions of Alÿs and Borsato, in their various forms, might function to undo the built environment. This deconstructive motivation was certainly at the heart of other walkers’ work, especially that of the Situationists. While I argue that each of their works contain a highly subversive component, […]
Walk this Way: Part Two
September 13th, 2013Describing his work, Mexico-based artist Francis Alÿs explains: “I spend a lot of time walking around the city…The initial concept for a project often emerges during a walk. As an artist, my position is akin to that of a passer-by constantly trying to situate myself in a moving environment. Each of my interventions is another […]
Walk This Way: Diane Borsato and Francis Alÿs Make the City
September 12th, 2013“Let everyday life become a work of art!” 1 “Rarely is walking considered as a distinct mode of acting, knowing, and making. As its necessity diminishes and its applications rarefy, the potential of walking as a critical, creative, and subversive tool appears only to grow.”2 Despite its ubiquitous place in everyday life, walking is an […]
Sakahàn Summer
August 30th, 2013The summer is slowly coming to an end – sad but true! – and the National Gallery’s exhibit Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art has kept up a whirlwind of activity. On the final weekend that the exhibit is open, I urge everyone that hasn’t yet seen it to pay the National Gallery a visit, or to […]
Things Often Don’t Go as Planned – Fortunately We Have Help
July 25th, 2013The Luminartists, a partnership between Anthony Scavarelli and Henri Kuschkowitz, are currently in residency at the Invest Ottawa space. Over the course of there residency they will be posting chronicles of their project on the Artengine blog. Check back to see their progress! Technical Drawings in a Heap Now over two and half months into the Invest […]
Invest Ottawa Residency 2.5/3 – The Concept
July 18th, 2013The Luminartists, a partnership between Anthony Scavarelli and Henri Kuschkowitz, are currently in residency at the Invest Ottawa space. Over the course of there residency they will be posting chronicles of their project on the Artengine blog. Check back to see their progress! In our first post we talked about our explorations into the Invest Ottawa space […]
Invest Ottawa Residency 1/3 – Design Research Methods
June 5th, 2013The Luminartists, a partnership between Anthony Scavarelli and Henri Kuschkowitz, are currently in residency at the Invest Ottawa space. Over the course of there residency they will be posting chronicles of their project on the Artengine blog. Check back to see their progress! 1 of 3 months into this artist residency and there is plenty to […]
The Van Gogh-st in the Shell
March 20th, 2013Excerpt from “The Van Gogh-st in the Shell” by Diana Stephens. Edited and adapted especially for the Artengine blog by the authoress. HELLO WORLD In the current age of technological progress, many of the die-hard humanists retreat from the world of glowing rectangles and LED lights into the realm of artistic expression. Science-fiction has—since the […]