We Make The City! was a festival of participatory art I produced at Artengine.
Highlights for me were:
A commission to Jesse Stewart to create a musical score to make the city playable. See the score and video here.
An open source design campaign in which the public contributed posters. You can see the full roster here.
A musical bike ride performance involving radio transmission.
This city, Ottawa-Gatineau, is the venue for Electric Fields 2013. This weekend you will find choirs in public squares, bike music on the canal, secret stories on street corners and a magic maze popping up in the park. Come experience the city in a new way. Be a part of these projects and make these projects a part the city!
We are the city. Collectively we form the fabric from which the city is woven. Outside of shopping malls, office blocks, restaurants, cafes, condo towers and government houses there is a common space we all navigate. How we move, meet and play in this space shapes the city itself. More than a collection of pathways, the city unfolds from the connection, friction and contradiction of the shared world between the buildings around us. Together we make this city; the city is us and we are the city.
