Call for Rejection Letters to the Museum of Personal Failure!
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artist | indie curator | creative research | designer, ui/ux | 90's net art, web 0 💾 animal advocate🐵 linktr.ee/michaelalstad
Call for Rejection Letters to the Museum of Personal Failure!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKA...
recycle logo as flower ♻️🌹Paris
#streetart
Holyday needs to go on a permanent Holiday..
28.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0she’s not impressed.. 😜
#streetart #stickerart #wheatpasting
It’s that time of year again .. Tofucken recipe!
happy thanksgiving! 🦃
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yet another reason to avoid Trumpland..🚫🇺🇸⛔️☣️💩
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‘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
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Throwback Thursday ⏮️⏪
Camille’s presentation on early Canadian net art at InterAccess’s 30th anniversary Mecha Kucha evening of 3-minute talks!
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#netart #CamilleTurner #InterAccess #TomLeonard #MikeSteventon #digitalarthistory
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 📌 0yikes @support.bsky.team the video compression is so harsh!
07.07.2025 18:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0drive by shooting of 1 Bloor East and 1 Bloor West, Yonge & Bloor, Toronto
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Hariri Pontarini Architects
Foster + Partners Architects
#architecture #skyscraper #condo
#Kitchener #Biennial #art #architecture
04.07.2025 17:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0thank you! 🙏
04.07.2025 14:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy Hump Day! 🐪🐫 🎶
#blueskywednesday #humpday #digitalart #gifs #myhumps #internetarchive
CDMX street style 👠🇲🇽
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#streetphotography #BlueSkyMonday #FotoMontag #streetstyle #MexicoCity #urbantrees #highheels
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 📌 0Collective 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
yes we collaborated on a few projects way back when!
16.06.2025 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Remembering 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
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happy hump day!
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#humpdayvibes #digitalart #internetculture #timecapsule #frozenintime #internetarchive #artoftheday #callforart #opencall #waltongoggins #friedegg #gifart #captured
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 📌 0why is King Charles speech in Canada’s parliament listed as ‘US politics’ ?!
27.05.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0SYMBIOSIS – The Clinic 215 Victoria Street, Toronto
April 21 – May 13, 1995
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#SymbiosisCollective #SymbiosisTheClinic #ArtHistoryToronto #ArtistRunCulture #BodyPolitics #CollectiveCity
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?
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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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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 📌 0The 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“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 📌 0final 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
your welcome! 🙏
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