2012 is an exciting year for art on the TTC, with over a dozen projects planned. We began the year with a special co-presentation with the NFB, which runs through the end of February. This twofold art installation features a site-specific version HIGHRISE/One Millionth Tower, created especially for the TTC.
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| This is a shot of one of the animations playing on the screen at Queen station |
This project, which I curated, draws attention to the reality of our vertical suburbs by bringing the issue to Torontonians as they go about their daily commute on the TTC; carving out a space from the onslaught of ads for them to imagine a more liveable city. It can be experienced across Toronto’s subway system, as a series of four specially designed subway platform posters in 59 stations, and six 30-second animated videos that play every 10 minutes all day on the entire network of over 300 Pattison/Onestop screens.
The NFB's HIGHRISE project, directed by Katerina Cizek is a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary experiment about the human experience in global vertical suburbs. The newest documentary in this project, ONE MILLIONth TOWER is set in an HTML5 virtual landscape, that re-imagines the urban landscape. It can be experience online here: http://highrise.nfb.ca/
I am thrilled to be working with the NFB. I have great respect for the ground-breaking work that Katerina is doing, and I'm excited to share this inspiring project with commuters.
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| Another shot of a double poster installation at Queen station |
- Sharon Switzer
Sharon Switzer is the Director of Art for Commuters and the Digital Content and Programming Curator for Pattison/Onestop. She curates and produces a variety of arts projects on the Pattison Onestop TTC screens throughout the year. She is also an artist, represented by Corkin Gallery. www.art4commuters.com
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