Artists Converge at MaRS, too

It’s not just scientists, entrepreneurs and business people coming up with innovative ideas at MaRS.

The Centre’s inspired architectural setting — with its heritage building, soaring atrium and modern conference space — is proving a popular draw for artists as well.

One of the elements of Luminato 2007, Toronto’s Festival of Arts, was an exhibit of Jenny Holzer text projections on buildings around town, including MaRS. Holzer, an American conceptual artist, has worked with the use of words and ideas in public spaces around the world for 30 years.

On a somewhat smaller scale, the Toronto Fringe Festival players Small Wooden Shoe chose MaRS as a venue for its contemporary take on Sir Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion, titled I Keep Dropping Sh*t. The summer 2007 show is part of a series the creators are dedicating to the revolutionaries of science, which culminates in 2008 with a performance titled Dedicated to the Revolutions. For more information check out www.smallwoodenshoe.org

And on a microscopic scale, a series of spectacular photomicrographs from the Nikon International Small World Competition are on exhibit at MaRS throughout the fall of 2007, offering breathtaking visual representations of the microscopic world that scientist-artists from around the world have captured through their work.

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• Photomicrograph exhibit @ MaRS: Vote for your favourite
• Interview: Weighing the gravity of the Newtonian Revolution

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