Art and Science United!
Saturday May 8, 12pm – 4pm
Harbourfront Centre
235 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto
What is an Art & Science Fair?
The event was structured like a typical science fair, with forty projects and their creators assembled for one day to share their work and ideas with an audience and to compete for awards. The difference was that these projects were a mix of both art and science.
The Too Cool For School Art & Science Fair is a part of Fresh Ground new works, Harbourfront Centre’s national commissioning programme. The fair was a great success, a buzzing cacophonous afternoon of information sharing across disciplinary boundaries.
The Projects
Forty unique projects combining art and science were displayed by Abigale Miller, Alexander Moyle, Allison Rowe, Ariana Andrei and Reagan Brown, Arthur Konok, Brian White, Bridget Moser, Chris Bennett, Doug Jarvis, Elissa Ross and Patrick Ingram, Emily Comeau, Emily Cook, Erika James, Erika Lincoln, Gareth Lichty, Gene Mastrangeli, Heather Carey, Students and teacher of The Student School, Iris Hea-Won Cho, Jesse Robertson, Ken Leung, Laura Paolini, Lauren Hall and Ed Barsalou, Libby Hague, Linda Fitz, Lisa Smolkin, Mari Tsylke, Martin Reis, Michael Enzbrunner and Allison McCall, Miki Rubin, Niki D’Amore and Emilie Dionne, Patrick Beh, Reynaldo Padua, Ryan Thorne, Sarah Peebles, Susan Bustos, Tagny Duff, and Willy Le Maitre.
Check out the Projects page to learn more.
Judges and Winners
Each and every project was brilliant in its own way, so judges Sean Gryb, Hooley McLaughlin and Crystal Mowry had a difficult time choosing their three favourite displays. The winners were Elissa Ross & Patrick Ingram, Willy Le Maitre and Lisa Smolkin. They each received a prize bag containing a free membership to the Ontario Science Centre, a free pass to the Subtle Technologies Festival, a gift certificate from Above Ground Art Supplies and a gift certificate from Active Surplus. Congratulations, winners!
Table-top Mathematics Lapidary Unit
by Elissa Ross and Patrick Ingram
art drug dRT
by Willy Le Maitre
What Kind of Person am I?
by Lisa Smolkin
Photos
Photos from the Too Cool For School Art & Science Fair are now available on Flickr.
If you have images from the fair that you’d like to share, please post them to the Too Cool for School Art and Science Fair Flickr group.
But wait, there’s more!
Too Cool For School Art & Science Exhibition
Harbourfront Centre, York Quay Galleries
Saturday, November 13 – Sunday, January 02, 2011
Harbourfront Centre
235 Queen’s Quay West
Toronto, ON
M5J 2G8
Fresh Ground new works
The Too Cool For School Art & Science Fair and Exhibition are a part of Fresh Ground new works, Harbourfront Centre’s national commissioning programme.
- Download and print a poster! 8.5″ x 11″ PDF, 13MG.
Science Rendevous
The fair was part of Harbourfront Centre’s all day program of events, displays, and activities for the city wide Science Rendezvous.
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