Nuit Blanche | Independent Student Projects

ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche 2014

Website: http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/

Where: Downtown Toronto

When: Sunset October 4^th to sunrise October 5^th

What: At its core, Nuit Blanche is a 12-hour event with a mandate to make contemporary art accessible to large audiences, while inspiring dialogue and engaging the public to examine its significance and impact on public space. Nuit Blanche is both a “high art” event and a free populous event that encourages celebration and community engagement. From sunset to sunrise city spaces and neighbourhoods are transformed into temporary exhibitions. Unusual or forbidden spaces become sites of contemporary art open for all-night discovery and rediscovery. Cultural institutions, from museums to galleries to artist run centres, open their doors and offer free access to contemporary art. The everyday is suspended as the city’s landscape is changed to welcome a variety of artistic experiences.

This year, the University Of Waterloo School Of Architecture will be hosting three separate installations, each hosted by a separate team; Planeterraeum, Sky City, and Impressions.

Planeterraeum

Website: http://frmlab.com/category/dome/

Where: 701 Fleet Street, Toronto (Gore Park at Lakeshore West & Fort York Boulevard)

When: Sunset October 4^th to sunrise October 5^th

What: Planeterraeum is a geodesic dome of a 40 foot (12 metre) diameter, coupled with a weather balloon. The two operate in tandem in that the weather balloon will have five onboard GoPro cameras taking a live video feed from an altitude of 300 feet (90 metres). This feed is then mapped, and projected onto the interior of the dome such that while standing in the middle of this dome, you see the city as if you were at balloon-level.

Sky City

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1480796838856694/

Where: 741 Queen Street West, Toronto (Destingo Restaurant at Queen Street West & Bathurst)

When: Sunset October 4^th to sunrise October 5^th

What: SKY CITY is an exploration and imagining of spaces of the future. SKY CITY defines a spacial dichotomy between physical materials and virtual softwares.

The growth of our digital age promises a future where our spaces exists within the physical and virtual realities. We hypthosize future spaces that will think, sense, and react to changes in the environment, occupancy and time. SKY CITY is a rendering of our vision.

Join them and walk the cloud, hang out, and experience the spaces and sounds of the future!

Who: Will Fu, Sean Yang and the Sky City Team

Impressions

Website: http://amaagroup.tumblr.com/

Where: 601 Christie Street (Artscape Wychwood Barns at St Clair West & Christie Street)

When: Sunset October 4^th to sunrise October 5^th

What: Impressions is an interactive showcase for public interaction. Toronto can be described as a large melting pot – a city that has been transformed and moulded through the impressions of its ever-changing demographic of residences. This public art piece serves as a micro representation of Toronto’s diverse cultural identity. As users leave their impressions on the constructed organic plane, the form beings to change and adapt to the input pressures. The project will be conceived as one monotonous structure that will exist as a wall of public interactive art. Beginning as a monotonous wall of tubes in an orthogonal formation, by morning will exist as a wall left with impressions of the city and its people.

Who: AAMAA Group is a design collective formed by 5 fouth year architecture students from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, consisting of Alice Chen, Alexandru Vilcu, Andrea Ng, Alice Song, and Mina Vedut.

Transportation to and from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture is being provided. Buses will be departing from the school at 5:15 PM on October 4^th, and will be arriving at 800 Fleet Street, Toronto. Buses will be departing from the same site at 1:30 AM and returning to Cambridge at 3:00 AM.