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@datsla.bsky.social

artist | indie curator | creative research | designer, ui/ux | 90's net art, web 0 💾 animal advocate🐵 linktr.ee/michaelalstad

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Latest posts by datsla.bsky.social on Bluesky

A Museum of Personal Failure is coming to Vancouver’s Kingsgate Mall
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia A Museum of Personal Failure is coming to Vancouver’s Kingsgate Mall

Call for Rejection Letters to the Museum of Personal Failure!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKA...

23.01.2026 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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recycle logo as flower ♻️🌹Paris
#streetart

03.12.2025 17:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Holyday needs to go on a permanent Holiday..

28.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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she’s not impressed.. 😜

#streetart #stickerart #wheatpasting

25.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
TOFUCKEN Vegan Turducken
YouTube video by Granny PottyMouth TOFUCKEN Vegan Turducken

It’s that time of year again .. Tofucken recipe!
happy thanksgiving! 🦃

m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4sP...

12.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.

yet another reason to avoid Trumpland..🚫🇺🇸⛔️☣️💩

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

03.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SPILL FEATURE: SOME PEOPLE SAY IT IS A DIFFICULT LISTEN, I DON’T MIND THAT - A CONVERSATION WITH MARK GANE (MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS) - The Spill Magazine SOME PEOPLE SAY IT IS A DIFFICULT LISTEN, I DON’T MIND THAT A CONVERSATION WITH MARK GANE (MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS) It is hard to believe, but it is true, Garden Music is Mark Gane’s first solo album. ...

‘Everybody is inundated with too much stimulation, so I am trying to make a small attempt to bring people into this world I created.’

#MarkGane #soundart #ambient #marthandthemuffins #ocad #soundscape #Toronto

spillmagazine.com/spill-featur...

07.09.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Camille Turner on WYSWYG
YouTube video by InterAccess Camille Turner on WYSWYG

Throwback Thursday ⏮️⏪
Camille’s presentation on early Canadian net art at InterAccess’s 30th anniversary Mecha Kucha evening of 3-minute talks!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiFR...

#netart #CamilleTurner #InterAccess #TomLeonard #MikeSteventon #digitalarthistory

31.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

there's quite a few dead and dying trees along the sugar beach promenade as well.. some stumped and other large dead ones with branches that look hazardous and could easily break..

12.07.2025 14:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yikes @support.bsky.team the video compression is so harsh!

07.07.2025 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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drive by shooting of 1 Bloor East and 1 Bloor West, Yonge & Bloor, Toronto
🚙🎥🏙️
Hariri Pontarini Architects
Foster + Partners Architects

#architecture #skyscraper #condo

04.07.2025 21:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

#Kitchener #Biennial #art #architecture

04.07.2025 17:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

thank you! 🙏

04.07.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Hump Day! 🐪🐫 🎶

#blueskywednesday #humpday #digitalart #gifs #myhumps #internetarchive

02.07.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CDMX street style 👠🇲🇽
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#streetphotography #BlueSkyMonday #FotoMontag #streetstyle #MexicoCity #urbantrees #highheels

30.06.2025 15:09 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
utility cuts on a new Toronto sidewalk that will be left in a state of disrepair

utility cuts on a new Toronto sidewalk that will be left in a state of disrepair

It's unbelievable how many new freshly paved Toronto sidewalks are immediately damaged and left in a state of permanent disrepair! Its a blight on our city! #CityofTO @mayoroliviachow.bsky.social ‪‪‪@cityplanto.bsky.social‬

27.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Collective City invites individual artists, artist collectives, and curators to submit a proposal for a 2-week show as part of their inaugural season in 2026. Successful candidates will receive rent-free access to the exhibition space at Dupont Rail Gallery in midtown Toronto.

www.collectivecity.ca

24.06.2025 12:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yes we collaborated on a few projects way back when!

16.06.2025 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering Netzwissenschaft — a sprawling, hand-curated directory of net art, cyberfeminism, and media theory by Reinhold Grether. Now archived, it remains a portal to a freer, stranger internet. 🌐📶🔗

#netart #list #resource #netarthistory #networkedart

www.michaelalstad.com/remembering-...

16.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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happy hump day!
🐫🐪🐫
#humpdayvibes #digitalart #internetculture #timecapsule #frozenintime #internetarchive #artoftheday #callforart #opencall #waltongoggins #friedegg #gifart #captured

11.06.2025 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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and then there’s this lovely fountain at Clarence Square which has been in this condition for the last 2 years!

04.06.2025 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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why is King Charles speech in Canada’s parliament listed as ‘US politics’ ?!

27.05.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Revisiting The Clinic: 30 Years Later - Michael Alstad 30 years ago, Toronto's Symbiosis Collective transformed a defunct liposuction clinic into a provocative art space. Their site-specific show, The Clinic (1995), dissected beauty, trauma, and body poli...

SYMBIOSIS – The Clinic 215 Victoria Street, Toronto
April 21 – May 13, 1995

www.michaelalstad.com/revisiting-t...

#SymbiosisCollective #SymbiosisTheClinic #ArtHistoryToronto #ArtistRunCulture #BodyPolitics #CollectiveCity

21.05.2025 12:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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30 years ago, the Symbiosis Collective transformed a defunct liposuction clinic into a provocative art space. Their site-specific show, The Clinic (1995), dissected beauty, trauma, and body politics from inside the system. What has changed in three decades?
🔗⬇️

21.05.2025 12:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lacking individual agency (“monkey see, monkey do”), they are ensnared in networks of corruption and violence.

https://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/405344

#morganlibrary #hanuman #watercolour #art #monkeyseemonkeydo 🙈🙉🙊🐒

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20.05.2025 14:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Within Ahmadi’s established iconography, the ornamental-looking balls signify objects of war—bombs and grenades—and the monkeys are the faceless subjects who enact the orders of despotic leaders.

20.05.2025 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The figures—four sitting on top of tapered brick or stone towers, and three below—are entangled in delicate ribbons of watercolor that resemble calligraphy. Follow these ribbons and you see that each binds a figure to a round object, like a ball and chain.

20.05.2025 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“Tower,” by Iranian-American artist Shiva Ahmadi, is based on Indian representations of the deity Hanuman from the 17th and 18th centuries. In the work, seven monkeys are painted in translucent jewel tones.

20.05.2025 14:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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final day of flashDRIVE: Digital Arts Fundraiser
at InterAccess. All artworks available for purchase as digital files at the gallery or @metalabel.bsky.social
very pleased to add Erica Whyte's 'The Uses of Nutmegs' to my collection! 🙏
#DigitalArt #Fundraiser

ia-flashdrive.metalabel.com

17.05.2025 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

your welcome! 🙏

16.05.2025 20:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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