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Throughout Toronto's office, public, and green spaces, public art is almost always welcomed as a visual enhancement. Public installations add humanity to the areas we walk through. They bring thought and wonder to sometimes clinically clean places. Oxford Properties, in partnership with Germany's Digital Art Museum (DAM), looks to enhance the (already good-looking) lobby of 130 Adelaide Street West in the Richmond Adelaide Centre, with its recent unveiling of a large-scale, digital public art platform, called the Oxford ARTablet.
The Oxford ARTablet is the first of its kind in any Canadian office building, offering a continually rotating, fine art installation of some of the world's best known digital artists. The screen itself consists of 16, 55" LED TV monitors and the art shown is a rotating gallery of moving digital imagery. The digital piece shown in these photos and in the video below is by American artist, Casey Reas. Other artists include Eelco Brand from the Netherlands, and Germany's Gerhard Mantz.
Casey Reas' "Casey Works Process 14 Software 3 81379909" from YouTube
130 Adleiade West already has one of the most stunning (and likely unseen) commercial lobbies in the core. The room is huge and austere; it is space for the sake of space. Held aloft by massive piloti, the lobby is sided with huge windows, offering stunning framing of some of the financial district's greatest buildings. The space alone is worth visiting, but the new screen, with its gorgeous, slowly moving images, makes it a definite stop for any urban enthusiast. Two big granite thumbs up for this idea.
