Hey Everyone,<div><br></div><div>Megan Smith is our current Critical Writer in Residence, but she is really working on pushing ideas a bit beyond the standard observe and report model. She has a new post on our blog which I hope many of your can have a read through and respond to as well. She is really interested in getting to know the community, and to give it an even greater voice. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is a quote:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14px;text-align:left">Within this residency, through play and curiosity I will wonder who you are and I am willing to use this public space, my role and Critical Resident Blogger, to get to know you in the places that you walk, live and spend your day.</span></span></div>
<div><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14px;margin:1em 0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I would like to try to bust open this social technology and let my feet land on the ground right where you are. I would like to root your social identity to a place."</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14px;margin:1em 0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Go here to read more: h</span>ttp://<a href="http://artengine.ca/blog/?p=2956">artengine.ca/blog/?p=2956</a></p>
<div>Megan and I also sat down with Diane Bonds from Apt613 to talk about her residency and her ideas about the city and open culture. You can read that interview on Apt 613:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://apt613.ca/meet-megan-smith-ottawas-critical-resident-blogger/">http://apt613.ca/meet-megan-smith-ottawas-critical-resident-blogger/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ryan</div>-- <br>___________________________<div><br></div><div>Ryan Stec</div><div>Artistic Director</div><div>Artengine</div><div>2 Daly Ave.<span>        </span> Ottawa, ON</div><div>
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