Grow

  • “Artists and Gardens: A Growing Concern”  Canadian Art, November 24, 2011, by Robin Laurence. “I’m interested in how our urban environments are shifting and changing as a result of pressures around the ecological crisis.” [pdf]
  • “Two urban agriculture projects bring art to Vancouver’s gardens”  The Georgia Straight, August 22, 2011, by Robin Laurence. “The organizations and individuals behind them are making a new genre of public art that focuses on community, utility, sustainability, and reclaiming marginal urban areas for cultivation.” [pdf]

Digital Natives

  • Video, messages on the electronic billboard
  • Other Sights announcement on Art Agenda, April 13, 2011
  • “Digital Natives Controversy (Vancouver, BC)”, The C-Word, a blog on censorship and other challenges to literature, April 7, 2011
  • “Interspersed with ads for Air Canada, Starbucks, cars and wine on the controversial electronic billboards adjacent to the Burrard Bridge, new messages are provoking thought in a different way.” The Courier, April 5, 2011, by Cheryl Rossi
  • “With Digital Natives, we’ve taken back – temporarily – some visual space in the city for messages from individuals, to display a dialogue from this city and beyond.”. The Tyee, April 5, 2011, by Clint Burnham
  • “The billboard – on Squamish Nation land – becomes a venue for artistic and literary exchange between native and non-native communities”. The Globe and Mail, April 5, 2011, by Marsha Lederman
  • One Digital Natives message a day for the month of April, Vancouver is Awesome
  • “Burrard Street billboard to host public art work of Twitter messages” Straight.com, March 31, 2011 by Jessica Werb.
  • “One of the works that will be breaking the boundaries of the gallery is Digital Natives, a series of text-based Twitter messages that will be sharing space with the advertising on the controversial electronic sign mounted on traditional Squamish territory on the Burrard Street Bridge” The Vancouver Sun, February 12, 2011, by Kevin Griffin

The Games are Open – Köbberling & Kaltwasser

  • Commissions, Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2012, Vol. 31 No. 1, page 16. …”The Games are Open simultaneously addresses community building through a new conception of “green space,” decommodification of the art object, and the accessibility of art.” [pdf]
  • “Full-scale bulldozer made from recycled Olympic Games materials” -Artabase, October 11, 2010,
  • Olympic Village discards recast as public art, Berin-based artists reclaim abandoned space with biodegradable bulldozer, The Vancouver Sun, August 7, 2010, by Katherine Monk. “Koebberling says the compostable bulldozer is in itself a meditation on time, not only because it will biodegrade over the course of an estimated eight years, but because bulldozers are a symbol of massive and near-immediate landscape transformations.” [pdf]

False Creek – T + T (Tony Romano and Tyler Brett)

  • From bars to brollies, Bright Light shines, Georgia Straight, Feb 25, 2010 by Robin Laurence. “Among their many references are the inequities of Vancouver’s real-estate boom, the construction of the Athletes’ Village, and the now-banished floating homes of former False Creek squatters.” [pdf]

Phinnagins Wyaake – Aaron Carpenter

Park – Marko Simcic

  • When a greenway becomes a park-ing lot,  Vancouver Sun, Nov 29th, 2008, page F14, by Kevin Griffin [pdf] ”Once placed on the street in spots used by people to park their cars, its physical presence should call attention to how the city’s urban space is used – especially how much land is set aside for parking so-called useful motorized vehicles.”
  • Looking for a place to Park, Georgia Straight, Jan 2-8th, 2009, page 27, by Robin Laurence [pdf]“Park creates a tension Simcic observes, between the public and the private. Between our sense of sharing and our sense of entitlement. Between our culture, domestic culture, and visual culture.”

Vox Pop – Antonia Hirsch

  • WHAT ARE WE NOW? On stadium and Vox Pop, BlackFlash, Fall 2009 Issue 27.1, page 44, by Jeremy Todd. “Stadium crowds look into a singular point/event and respond in accordance to it, while being watched by others as a spectacular whole through media broadcasting. They also watch each other” [pdf]
  • An art wave hits Granville and Robson, Vancouver Sun, Oct 18th, 2008, page F18, by John Mackie. “It may make you look differently at advertising, it may make you look differently at the type of imagery that’s thrown at us.”  [pdf]
  • Zero in on a new wave, The Province, Oct 19th, 2008, page B8, by Lynn Mitges. [pdf]