The (AR)T Project

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About The (AR)T Project

SUBMIT YOUR WORK

Within the thematic framework of ‘Intimacy’ we are looking for works in any genre which explores, questions and engages with issues surrounding Public Space.

You may express yourself in five diferent ways | Your Expressive Portrait | Your Voice | Your Graphic/Tags/Text | Your Video/Performance/Dance | Your Artistic Concept. Click on each category for details.

The accepted works will be displayed via AR (Augmented Reality) in and around those areas of Montreal which are being threatened by gentrification, i.e Griffin Town, Mile End and Little Italy, Hochelaga, (pretty well all over) as well as other areas around the world facing similar issues. .

Call is scheduled for October 01, 2011 and will be open to all Canadian and International Artists. Works should be live starting Novemeber 1, 2010.

To maximize the exposure of this intervention including the artists’ work and public interaction – the project’s official launch will be February 17, 2012. to coincide with the opening of the Montreal High Lights Festival & Nuit Blance here in Montreal which attracts some 750,000 visitors each year.

Related keywords: augmented Reality, mutated Reality, citizenship, visibility, public intimacy, urbanism, design, architecture, sociology, anthropology, political sciences, philosophy, history, geography, law, dissensual aesthetics, hacktivism, speculative realisms, strange ontologies, displacements, ecologies, media-archaeologies, technological obsolescence, haunted spaces, reverse remediations, the untimely, erotics, ambivalences, anxieties, confusions, violence, obscurities, junk, addictions, restlessness, isolation, surrealisms, aggressiveness, the uncommon, uneven structures, gentrification, psychogeography

John Naccarato, 2011

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