Art In Transit

Great Press for Contacting Toronto 2013

Simone Rojas Pick — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:40:47 +0000

The 2013 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival just kicked off yesterday, and already we’ve had some great press coverage for Contacting Toronto: Under this Ground.

National Post: “Artists reveal glimpse of seldom seen underground Toronto“- 3 May 2013
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Toronto Standard: “Exploring Toronto’s Sewers“ - 3 May, 2013
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Toronto Star: “Toronto’s sewer system on photo display at St. Patrick subway station” – 1 May, 2013
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CBC News: “Contact Photo Fest turns lens on the world, little-seen places” – 1 May, 2013
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The Atlantic Cities: “The Man Who Turns Toronto’s Sewers Into Art” – 29 April, 2013
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Azure: “10 Photographers You Need to Know About” – 30 April, 2013
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Daily DOOH: “Exposing Toronto’s Underground Waterways” – 25 April, 2013
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Metro included a descriptive image of the installation at St Patrick station.

The Globe and Mail used Andrew Emond’s photo as the cover image for their story on Scotiabank Contact.

If you haven’t already seen them, make sure you catch artists Michael Cook’s posters in the St Patrick subway station, and Andrew Emond’s on TTC subway platform screens, May 1 – 31.

For more information, visit http://www.contactingtoronto.ca/

Dear City Canada – write a public love letter to your city – Deadline June 1st

Sharon Switzer — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:54:51 +0000

Do you love your city? Or perhaps your feelings more complex? If you can fit it in 140 characters, we want to share it with the rest of Canada on a billboard as part of a new public art project. Your voice matters. Join other urbanists in a public dialogue about the issues affecting our daily lives in the cities we inhabit.

Tweet a 140 character letter to your city using @DearCityCanada. All acceptable* letters will be displayed on mall screens across Canada for two weeks this June, reaching five million people a week. The best letters will be displayed on outdoor digital billboards across Canada this summer, and of course letters will be retweeted via the @DearCityCanada account.

Start your tweet by indicating your city. For example “@DearCityCanada Dear [name of your city] …”

Participating billboard cities: Vancouver, Surrey, Pitt Meadows, Abbotsford, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Kitchener, Hamilton, Toronto, Peterborough, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Moncton, and Halifax.

Public space is no longer only comprised of physical structures; it’s now a place where the complex interaction of physical and electronic spaces happens. Public screens and digital billboards offer new sites for public conversations.

Deadline for your letters is June 1st, 2013.

Only letters to the digital billboard location cities will have a chance of being seen in those cities. Other Dear City letters will have the opportunity to be seen in malls across Canada. Due to Quebec french language laws, letters to Quebec cities must be in french.

Co-Produced by Pattison Onestop and Spacing Magazine.

*We can’t include letters that violate the Canadian human rights act, are libelous or slanderous, give out personal information, or include profanity.

Dear City Canada is part of Art in Transit, Pattison Onestop’s ongoing arts and culture programme, presenting thought-provoking projects that enhance our shared environment and transport city-dwellers, if only momentarily, out of our daily routines. www.artintransit.ca

Submit your art for a chance to be showcased across 317 screens in 42 shopping centres throughout Canada!

administrator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:32:27 +0000

10 – 20 entries will be selected and displayed from April 24 – May 7 – a potential reach of 11 million viewers! Submission Deadline Extended: March 22, 2013.

SUBMIT YOUR ART FOR CANADA TO SEE!

The Pop-up Gallery, collaborative effort between Pattison Onestop and the Arts Network for Children and Youth, wants you (30 & under) to submit your art to help kick-off National Youth Arts Week!

10 – 20 entries will be selected and displayed across 317 Pattison Onestop digital mall screens, in 42 shopping centres across Canada, from April 24 – May 7. Still art will be displayed for 5 seconds, and filmed art for 30 (silent) seconds – a potential reach of 11 million viewers!

Whether you an emerging artist or a more established one, this is a great opportunity for you to nationally showcase your art.

EVENT

The Pop-Up Gallery: Retail Revolution art competition, for artists 30 & under.

ORGANIZERS

The Arts Network for Children and Youth is teaming up with digital media giant Pattison Onestop to provide an opportunity for young artists to showcase their work on digital screens throughout retail shopping centres across Canada, for National Youth Arts Week.

ART TYPE

Whether by illustration, painting, photography, text-based art, video art, animation or film, the Pop-up Gallery is your opportunity to inspire, affect and connect with millions of Canadians through your work.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

March 22, 2013.

WHERE TO SUBMIT

Submit your artwork via email to popupgallery@youthartsweek.ca.

Provide your:

name
age
location
a brief statement about your work

RULES & GUIDELINES

Ready to submit your work to our jurors? Here are the next steps:

Be sure your submissions conform to the following specifications:

Provide your name and brief statement about your work
All submissions must be in digital format
All still images must be at least 768 pixels in width
Still images must be in vertical format, with minimum vertical resolution of 1280 pixels
Moving or time-based work must be silent, and exactly 30 seconds in length
All submissions must be received by midnight on March 15, 2013

OUR JURORS

Bill Clarke is a Toronto-based arts writer and critic who has written for Canadian Art, ARTnews, Modern Painters, C Magazine, Border Crossings and other Canadian and international publications. He is also the Editor of Magenta Magazine, an online visual arts publication produced by the Magenta Foundation.

The Atlantic Cities writes about Murder in Passing

administrator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:59:12 +0000

The Atlantic Cities, A 42-Part Murder Mystery, Chronicled on the Toronto Subway, 25 February 2013

Globe & Mail Reviews Murder in Passing

administrator — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:34:01 +0000

Globe & Mail: A subway serial murder mystery? Why you should check it out on your next commute, 12 February 2013.

And the press is in: The Grid, Spacing Magazine and York University write about Murder in Passing

administrator — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:53:37 +0000

Spacing Toronto: Film noir series hits Toronto subway platforms, 7 February 2013.

York University YFile: Film prof’s ‘whodunit’ Murder in Passing captivates Toronto commuters, 6 February 2013.

The Grid: What’s the Meaning of this?: Murder in Passing, 5 February 2013.

Great Press Coverage for Murder in Passing

Sharon Switzer — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:27:13 +0000

We’ve had some great coverage over the first 2 weeks of Murder in Passing, the murder mystery for commuters!

Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/1310845–murder-in-passing-is-a-whodunit-unfolding-on-ttc-subway-screens
CBC Radio Metro Morning: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2013/01/07/ttc-murder-mystery/
Filmmaker Magazine: http://filmmakermagazine.com/61947-murder-in-passing-transmedia-on-the-toronto-subway/
Metro: http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/497935/murder-mystery-hits-screens-on-subway-platforms-in-daily-quick-hit-episodes/
CBC News online: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/01/04/murder-in-passing-whodunit-mystery-subway-online.html
CBC Arts and Entertainment News online:http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Arts+and+Entertainment/ID/2323115586/
Inside Toronto: http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/1490356-queen-west-filmmaker-john-greyson-launches-40-episode-series-on-ttc-screens/
Fab Magazine: http://www.fabmagazine.com/fab-blog/murder-and-art-on-the-ttc
Now Magazine: Sasha, Jan 12: http://www.nowtoronto.com/columns/sasha.cfm
Xtra!: http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Murder_on_the_TTC_express-13044.aspx

Press for the National Launch of Art in Transit in Shopping Malls

Sharon Switzer — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:59:38 +0000

We are very happy that the launch of our national Art in Transit programme for shopping centres has received some good press!

CanadianArt.ca: Art Hits Malls Across Canada On Digital Ad Screens, J an 17, 2013

MetroNews.ca: How about some culture with that commercialism? Art comes to GTA malls, By Ian Gormely on Jan 16, 2012

Straight.com: New program brings visual art to Metro Vancouver shopping mall screens, by Stephen Thomson on Jan 16, 2013

Launching 2013 off right with Murder in Passing on the TTC

Sharon Switzer — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:53:48 +0000

Solve the Mystery of Murder in Passing!

Murder in Passing is the first-ever transmedia whodunit series for commuters, with new daily, 30-second episodes on Pattison Onestop’s Toronto subway screens, and online, January 7 to March 1, 2013.

Written and directed by John Greyson, Murder in Passing is shot in the film noir style. I first started thinking about a murder mystery for commuters back in 2007, and even started discussing it with John back then. It’s taken over 5 years to bring this idea to fruition. John has done an amazing job and I’m very excited to finally have this project on our screens!

Bike courier Mars Brito has been murdered … and everyone in the town of Passing B.C. is a suspect!

Visit www.murderinpassing.com to catch up and listen to the operatic ‘fugues’ composed by David Wall. Follow our citizen detective’s blog posts, and find daily clues online, through twitter, and in the Metro newspaper. Follow the clues and solve the mystery of Murder in Passing!

Twitter: @MurderIP
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MIPassing

Ship of Fools Docks in Toronto

Sharon Switzer — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:26:17 +0000

Ship of Fools can be seen on an urban screen near you, November 5 – 18, 2012

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Shad – Gentle Reminders – Pattison Onestop billboard at Gardener and Kippling, Toronto

Heather O'Neill & Jean-Paul Kelly – Last Words – Pattison video board at Yonge and Richmond, Toronto

James Balog – Vanishing Glaciers – Pattison Onestop subway screens

Shad – Gentle Reminders – Pattison billboard at Gardener and Kippling, Toronto

Heather O'Neill & Jean-Paul Kelly – Last Words – Pattison video board at Yonge and Adelaide, Toronto

James Balog – Vanishing Glaciers – Pattison Onestop subway screens