Located at 911 Davenport Road in
Toronto, Canada, Roadside Attractions is a storefront window art
space created and maintained by WeSee Inc. The space is used for
monthly, site-specific installations and other visual art
projects.
Conceived in 2007 with its inaugural exhibit in July of that year,
Roadside Attractions has shown a diverse selection of artists
incorporating a wide range of media. Our on-going commitment is to
present exhibits that stimulate the promotion of contemporary art
and culture in a venue that allows for provocative interactions
with the populace at large.
Commencing in 2010 Roadside
Attractions will be exhibiting the art projects of international
artists while maintaining our commitment to Canadian artists in
order to promote and encourage a cultural link with the global
community.
Artists' works are selected by means of proposal
submissions and exhibits are scheduled on an
on-going basis.
We accept submissions for projects
in any media with the provision that it is suited to the confines
of the space (view our Submissions Outline
or contact us for more details or to be on our
mailing list).
Roadside Attractions is available free to the exhibiting
artist.
MARCH at ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
Cone
Oscillator
by Stan
Krzyzanowski
multi media, electronics,
pinecone
Cone Oscillator
is a whimsical
contraption that harnesses an everyday pinecone to an array of
electronics and mechanics allowing for a remarkable examination of
properties exhibited by the cone as it opens and closes in reaction
to changes in wetness.
Designed and built partly as a
response to being foiled by inattentive gallery attendants,
Cone
Oscillator loops through cycles of monsoon
collapse and expansive drought responding to its condition
appropriately by activating the device and perpetuating the
excruciatingly slow and seemingly endless
cycle.
The oscillator also serves as a
watching station facilitating the time-lapse photography and video
playback needed to observe the action. The cone oscillator will be
captured by continuous time-lapse photography. Also in the window
will be video playback revealing a world of motion always available
but rarely seen.
Stan Krzyzanowski is a
Toronto-based artist with a current focus in time-lapse, online
interaction and electronics. His web-site “Interval” is an
extensive online archive of video-work generated out of his
interest in observation and is one of the most comprehensive
compilations of time-lapse, stop-motion, interval-based photography
authored by a single individual available on the
web.
Web-sites: http://www.ocadstan.ca/coneoscillator and
http://webspace.ocad.ca/~stan/
Now
until March 31
24
hours daily
Previously
at Roadside Attractions
