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GEOSTASH - 8 Artists, 2 Curators, 1 City
http://www.year01.com/geostash
Geostash is a public art project that uses the city of Toronto as its inspiration and utilises Global Positioning Technology (GPS) and the web as a means to achieve its creative goals. Geostash takes its cues from the practice of Geocaching - a sort of high-tech treasure hunt that was originally conceived in 2000, and has spread worldwide through websites promoting this activity. Each artist will hide a "stash" somewhere in the city and post the GPS co-ordinates of where the stash is hidden on the Geostash website. The stash may contain a set of instructions requesting an in-situ performance, or could contain objects, materials and a manual to create temporary public art. Once the stashes have all been placed in the city, each participating artist will be randomly assigned another artists' stash to find using a GPS receiver. Once found, the artist will transform the contents of the stash into an ephemeral work of art.
Date: October 29 - 31, 04
Location: Various locations in Toronto TBA (check blog for updates)
Presented by Year Zero One
Artist Talk and Panel Discussion at YYZ Artists Outlet - Nov. 17th 7-9pm
Participating Artists
Jason Van Horne & Duncan Walker
Shawn Micallef & Gabe Sawhney
Slavica Ceperkovic
Paola Poletto & Jon Sasaki
Willy le Maitre
Curators
Michael Alstad & Michelle Kasprzak
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Year Zero One gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council for their financial support of Geostash and to our presentation partner YYZ Artists' Outlet.
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YEAR ZERO ONE is an on-line artist run centre which operates as a network for the dissemination of digital culture and new media through web based exhibitions, site-specific public art projects, an extensive media arts directory and the Year01 Forum.
http://www.year01.com
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Posted on Thu Oct 21, 2004 at 5:41 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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