Tonight is Nuit Blanche — literally “white night” in French — a night of public art projects ranging from installations to performance art and taking place all over Accordion City’s core. Here’s a blurb from the Live With Culture site:
I’ve got a date this Saturday night and it’s with ART, ART, ART. Nuit Blanche takes over the Toronto night with public art projects by local, national and international artists in museums, alleys, train stations, warehouses, parks, arenas and more. City Hall as a massive interactive screen, an immense corridor of screams, a waterfall spouting building, slacking mascots and gruesome zombies — this will be a date to remember. So ditch the gallery chic, put on your walking shoes and tell mama NOT to wait up.
To find out more about Nuit Blanche, check out their site. The fun starts tonight at 6:52 p.m. (sunset) and goes on until sunrise.
Robin Senior sent me an email telling me about Stereoscope, one of tonight’s installations. Created by Project Blinkenlights — they’re the people who have turned building windows into giant pixel displays in Berlin and Paris — tonight’s project turns the curved towers of Toronto’s City Hall into twin pixel canvases. Better still, people can create graphics and submit them for display on City Hall tonight!
For more details about this project, see Project Blinkenlights’ Stereoscope site.
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The face of Toronto’s uber sexy and ‘modernesque’ city hall was transformed into a television screen. With controllers in hand, visitors played video games with city hall depicting characters, weapons, and the score. Lamps were placed behind each office window to depict images in an LED-style layout.
More thoughts at:
http://winstoninwonderlandart.blogspot.com/2008/10/nuit-blanche-2008-in-toronto.html
Stereoscope was easily the best (and I'm sure the most expensive) exhibit I saw at this year's Nuit Blanche. James totally downloaded the iPhone app that lets you see the city hall towers, and what kind of lighting show was presently going on. It was awesome!