Parkdale Versions
Dan McCafferty, Patricio Davila, Symon Oliver, Jessica Leong, Jan Hadlaw
Nuit Blanche, Toronto Public Library Parkdale Branch, Toronto, Canada
This display by the above artists was created by the Public Visualizations Studio mentioned in the interview with Colangelo. It engages residents of Toronto’s Parkdale, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, to share their vision of what Parkdale’s future could be and to learn new media tools at the local library themselves.
This takes Colangelo’s sense of public engagement to another level. It publicly faces an alley the works created were projected on the library during Nuit Blanche. (Toronto’s is in October. Lame. I know. Montreal’s in Februrary: a true Nuit Blanche, non?).
Full disclosure, I walked by that library every day during this period and often went in and had no idea this was happening…