Posts Tagged as ‘Nuit Blanche’

October 4, 2009

Nuit Blanche – Speed Shift

I just returned home from Nuit Blanche. While the event itself is one giant advertisement for Scotia Bank, there was one interesting exhibit that was more of a social commentary about advertising.

The installation, SPEED SHIFT, places two artificial visual realities, Minimal Art and advertising billboards, in unmediated juxtaposition. Consumer society made Oscar Wilde’s aphorism “Life [...]