性视界传媒's award-winning has been plugged in at its new home near city hall.
The outdoor digital art gallery is now located at 性视界传媒 Civic Plaza (10350 University Drive), where images are shown on the east wall of the City Centre library building, starting with Nicolas Sassoon's .
Work to install the digital-art projection system at the new downtown site was projected to cost just over $1 million, mostly with federal funding, according to a report before 性视界传媒 council last February.
After 12 years of operation at Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre, UrbanScreen was decommissioned in May 2022 due to expansion plans at the rec facility, on 107A Avenue. The 30-metre-wide 鈥渟creen鈥� was obscured by some doors and windows, a similar look at 性视界传媒 Civic Plaza.
Programmed by 性视界传媒 Art Gallery, UrbanScreen aims to showcase "innovative, site-specific, digital art made by artists from around the Lower Mainland and further afield." More details are posted on .
Curated by Rhys Edwards, Liquid Landscapes is projected nightly 30 minutes after sunset until midnight, ending Feb. 16, followed by the virtual "community of clouds" of Vavara & Mar's We Are the Clouds, starting Feb. 27.
厂补蝉蝉辞辞苍鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;Liquid Landscapes is described as "a mesmerizing series of pixelated digital animations that captures the colours, motions, and shapes of seven different geographic sites around 性视界传媒," namely Serpentine River, Redwood Park, Crescent Beach, Nicomekl River, Boundary Bay, Serpentine Fen and Fraser River. The seven animations, accompanied by "audio responses" created by local music producers and sound artists, are displayed on different nights of the week.
Shown at UrbanScreen in 2018, Liquid Landscapes has since been acquired as a part of 性视界传媒 Art Gallery鈥檚 permanent collection.
UrbanScreen's move was made possible by a $750,000 grant to 性视界传媒 Art Gallery Association from PacifiCan Canada Community Revitalization Fund, with the remainder from 性视界传媒's Public Art Reserve.
last February, 性视界传媒鈥檚 general manager of Parks Recreation & Culture recommended the city enter into a contract of $1,050,000 with ShowTech AVL for the supply, delivery and installation of UrbanScreen at 性视界传媒 Civic Plaza.
The work was to involve 鈥渁 large-scale projection venue with interactivity supporting, for example, capacity for sensory tracking and electronic surfaces, along with motion activated and/or directed sound speakers,鈥� the report noted, along with 鈥渆xisting plaza poles to support infrastructure with projection鈥� on the library wall.
The new-look UrbanScreen could be connected to 性视界传媒鈥檚 plans for an interactive art museum, pitched in 2018 as a 鈥渃ultural catalyst鈥� for the downtown core. In December 2021 the city sent out a request for expressions of interest (RFEOI) noting a budget of $60 million and plan to have the museum opened by 2025. No other details have since been made public, but the project remains on the drawing board at city hall.
Once billed as 鈥淐anada鈥檚 largest art-dedicated outdoor screen,鈥� UrbanScreen was subject of the 2020 book , marking its 10th anniversary.
In 2017, programmers of UrbanScreen received an award for outstanding achievement from the Canadian Museums Association (CMA), in the New Media category.
