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By Using a car for a site specific public art installation I was interested in exploring how public art could exist outside the confined creation of physical, permanent or temporary, installed works such as sculptures, paintings, or monuments.

Informed by sociopolitical motivations and activist intentions I used performance as my medium and the internet as my base to reach a wider public. Given the ephemeral nature of the performance and the inspiration behind it I was interested in ways to reach the public. I also see the internet as an essential pillar in social and political activism around the world. Transitional networks of arab bloggers that formed around Facebook, twitter, and other media last year was integral to the Arab spring.

Amanda Oppedisano

Better (2012) is a public art piece that uses cut out street signs as a means of focusing on London, ON as a "City of Opportunity." Like any major city, London is progressively and constantly being worked on. Particular words such as "Less," and "More" were chosen to refer to this idea that property and land are in a constant state of being monopolized. The shadow of the word is cast onto the ground and speaks directly of this relationship that is taking place between the specific site and the process in which it is being manipulated. The success of Better lies in the reality that these street signs can be moved around and apply to any piece of land in any city that is always in progress of being built up in order to become "better."

Pixel Architecture is an architectural sculpture composed of two big cubic structures and Styrofoam at the base of this main body. The squares represent modern buildings – simple, clean, and geometrical appearances.

As today’s architecture span wide spectrum of design and, at the same time, takes on issues relating to environment, and human lifestyle, it is inevitable to make affordable and affable structures, yet the majority of the existing buildings in the world don’t accomplish much of this. Rather, they go against it – sometimes impractical and harmful to humans and nature, both aesthetically and biologically. Thus, this sculpture indirectly emphasizes on the issue of our failing architecture, and notes that the structures we build should be more than just a box with ventilation systems. If there were a way to create building structures with an affordable mechanism, than our world would be a much better place. It is not only our nature that will appreciate it, but every living and non-living existence on this planet will appreciate it as well.

Grace Braniff is drawing inspiration from the Market Tower at the intersection of Dundas and Richmond Streets, and the London Public Library on Dundas Street in London, Ontario. Her site-specific installation focuses on the use of classical music to control and essentially deter loiterers from occupying these spaces.

Candra Staffen is a sculpture based artist who lives and studies in London at Western University.  Currently, she is working towards a double degree in Fine Arts and Business.  The artist has an interest in working with the contrast between new and old created by the inevitable aging process.  These contrasts mark an interesting parallel with humans' essence here on earth and fading memory.

Julian Michael Majewski is using city center storage for his site specific location. The piece has to do with an investigation towards transitional spaces through economic conditioning.

Rachel Woolmore-Goodwin, a former Blockbuster employee, rescued thousands of bright, yellow slide locks (designed to secure DVD rental cases) from the dumpster. Her aim is to re-purpose this material into an ornate craft with the intention of displaying the finished product in a boutique video store.

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ValerieMorelli

Located on 2118 Richmond Street is an old abandoned manor from the 1800s that is scheduled to be demolished to make way for a 40 meter tall luxury condominium. On this site is a large ornate lion head fountain surrounded by beautiful tile work, in response to the destruction of this historical site Morelli will reconstruct this fountain and relocate it in another manor within London called Windermere Manor. Windermere Manor, a London landmark, is known for embracing its London hertige and thus will be an appropreiate new home for an object that was to be erased from history.

Patrick's installation addresses the fragility of memory. She has incorporated vintage portraits of past Londoners who are unidentified and have been forgotten. Through her installation she hopes that these portraits receive recognition.

At the busy intersection of Wonderland and Oxford, Cakiroglu is looking to celebrate the last piece of sprawling earch left there, before its inevitable development. She would like what's there to fall somewhere between one's idea of reality and imagination.

Mack is interested in the steady consumption of farm land. Mack's work is based in the mass construcion on miniture simplified homes.

For this project, Roy has decided to use two different types of storage areas as her sites: a grain bin from my farm and a storage unit in the city. Using agricultural materials, such as dirt, grain, and corn, She has created intricate patterns on the floor of the grain bin. She will document herself sweeping the work up, and install the documentation in her other site, the storage unit in London.