Opening Up in Toronto – Doors Open 2012

Cannon Design’s Toronto office is once again getting ready to be part of the city’s annual Doors Open exhibit where buildings/businesses open their doors to the public.  In line with this year’s theme, “200 Years of Building Our City,” we are putting together an exhibit of installations exploring themes of urban development in Toronto over time.

This year we are also excited to be hosting presentations by several artists engaged in looking at urban issues in Toronto:

 Image: Michael Cook - Garrison Creek Sewer, Junction at Asylum Stream, Stanley Park

Michael Cook studies and photographs urban and regional infrastructure systems. His work has examined sewer, transportation, energy and irrigation infrastructure in North America and Asia, with attention to changes in management strategies and to infrastructure's often unrecognized influence on the landscapes of daily life. 

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(Michael will be presenting Saturday May 26^th & Sunday May 27^th @ 1:00pm)

 Image: Tori Foster - Eight Streetcar Shelters (Day), Spadina Avenue (2010)

Tori Foster is a Toronto-based media artist whose current work centres on emergent behaviour and the urban landscape. Heavily process oriented, very little of Foster's work is a direct representation of captured environs. Rather, captured imagery is treated as data, subjected to a series of actions, and re-presented to expose alternate information inherent to, but not visible in, the original dataset. http://www.torifoster.com/  

(Tori will be presenting Saturday May 26^th @ 2:30 & Sunday May 27^th @ 4:00pm)

Image: Sean Martindale - Nature

Sean Martindale is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary artist and designer currently based in Toronto, Canada. His interventions activate public and semi-public spaces to encourage engagement, often focused on ecological and social issues. His playful works question and suggest alternate possibilities for existing spaces, infrastructures and materials found in the urban environment. Frequently, Martindale uses salvaged goods and live plants in unexpected ways that prompt conversations and interaction.

http://www.seanmartindale.com.

(Sean will be presenting Saturday May 26^th @ 4:00 pm)

 Flavio Trevisan - Pink Republic (2011)

Flavio Trevisan is a visual artist with a background in architecture and
exhibition design. Recent projects include “Museum of the Represented City,”
a solo show curated by Mona Filip presented by the Koffler Gallery Off-Site;
“Pink Republic,” an installation in the window at TYPE Books on Queen West
and curated by Derek McCormack; “The Game of Urban Renewal (Special Regent
Park Edition),” a project for Queen Specific, curated by Joy Walker.

http://flaviotrevisan.com/

(Flavio will be presenting Sunday May 27^th @ 2:30pm)

Our office will be open to the public from 12:00pm to 5:00pm on Saturday May 26^th and Sunday May 27^th.  We are located at 200 University Avenue, at the south west corner of Richmond Street and University Avenue, close to Osgoode Subway station.

Hope to see you there! For all of you out-of-towners, look out for our post-event blog entry.