Once a year, certain parts of downtown Toronto are converted into "art projects". We usually think of art in the traditional Louvre-esque sense: sculptures, oil paintings. Nuit Blanche produces a different art experience! For instance, the art project at Bay St and King St was a carnival ride that swings people up and down, free cotton candy and free popcorn: this was an artist's impression of how the stock market took all of us for a wild up-and-down ride this past year.
"Suspended 65 metres in the air between the Viljo Revell-designed Toronto City Hall towers, the four 7m square alphanumeric quartz lamp arrays will display codes, DNA sequences and elemental words. With each of the four "characters" consisting of 16 light segments, the machine is capable of displaying nearly 4.94 billion distinct graphic combinations, facilitating the expression of any word in any language. Automated code sequences will run between live performance times".
To add to this, there was food this year! Organic burgers, roasted corn, the indian-food vendors. Now THAT, is art that I can appreciate.
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