We were very pleased to discover that TouchCubes has been listed by The Main as one of the pieces they’re most excited for at Art Souterrain! Thanks very much to Kelli Sturkenboom of The Main for including our work in her article!
Have you seen TouchCubes yet? It’s on display at the Centre de Commerce Mondial de Montreal (747, Car Victoria) until March 15th and it’s well worth checking out!
Rik and Deane
We’re happy to announce that the TouchCubes have been activated and are on display as part of Art Souterrain! We had an awesome time in Montreal over the weekend, and we were so happy to see so many of you enjoying our latest installation. Don’t worry if you weren’t able to make it out during opening weekend though, TouchCubes is on display at the Centre de Commerce Mondial de Montreal (747, Car Victoria) until March 15th. We hope that you’ll get a chance to check it out!
We’d like to thank everybody for their support over the last few weeks leading up to the event, including our incredibly knowledgeable technical advisers Max Stevens-Guille and Dian Carlo, our Super-Awesome Coordinatrice and Photographer Melanie May Taillon, and all of the staff at Art Souterrain (especially Jeff who was more than happy to lend a hand or two on a few occasions during set-up).
But most importantly we’d like to thank all of YOU for supporting our work and coming to see TouchCubes! We always appreciate your encouragement and interest in our work, and we do hope that you’ll keep in touch with us by liking SubZeroArts on Facebook or following us on Twitter so we can keep you informed about future work that we do. We’re already making plans for our next project and we hope that you’ll be there to see it!
Rik and Deane
One week from tonight we’ll be in Montreal to debut our latest installation TouchCubes as part of Art Souterrain, and we are totally looking forward to meeting you all! We’ve been hard at work cutting acrylic, checking connections, wiring wires, and making countless trips to the hardware store, all with the intention of making the most awesome installation we can for you to enjoy. We can hardly wait for you to see it!
A few more details for those of you who have been asking: TouchCubes will be showing at the Centre de Commerce Mondial de Montreal, which is located at 747, Car Victoria. We’ll be there in person on opening night Saturday February 28th, but if you can’t make it out then, TouchCubes will be on display until March 15th. We hope you’ll be able to stop by!
Last but not least, we’re always grateful to those of you who have asked if we need any help putting TouchCubes together, and we always appreciate your support. The best thing you can do would be to tell your friends about us, and help signal boost what we’re doing by sharing our posts on your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and what have you, and of course we would be thrilled if you’d like to make a donation to cover some of our costs!
Gotta run right now, we have about 60 gazillion things to do today, but we look forward to chatting with you again soon!
Rik and Deane
As you can see, the Pillars of Light are well on their way to being finished! We’ve been in production for a couple of weeks now and we’re happy to say that we’re well on target to get everything finished right on schedule!
As noted earlier in the week, we’ve learned a lot about acrylic and glue over the last few days. We’ve also learned a lot about surgical gloves and hummus, but we haven’t quite figured out what we’re going to do with that particular knowledge just yet. Give it time though, We’re sure we’ll come up with something…
We’re in the home stretch now, with just a little more than a week to go before we can share Pillars of Light with you at Nuit Blanche Ottawa Gatineau, and we’re getting more and more excited with every passing day! We can hardly wait to see you!
Rik and Deane
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At the end of the day, it all looks very easy. You see a finished installation and it looks awesome and you marvel at how great it is, but very rarely does it come to mind how long it takes on the back end to get everything ready. We can assure you that it takes lots of time. Like, really, lots and lots of time.
We started putting everything together on the weekend, and even though we had planned everything out in intricate detail (on napkins), even though we spent a few hours at the hardware store finding the right tools, even though we were pretty much ready for anything, it still took a long time putting it all together. And we still have a long way to go, but it will all be worth it when we can finally share Pillars of Light with you.
We can hardly wait!
Rik and Deane
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With every installation that SubZeroArts does, we try to build in a learning component for the sake of development. Whether it’s developing new programming, or trying to figure out new problems, or working in different environments, we always try to build on our knowledge base and increase our experience. Admittedly that kind of thinking can lead to it’s share of challenges, but we like to think that it makes us better artists and keeps us sharp. And really, how much fun would it be if there weren’t any challenges?
We’re learning a lot about acrylic and a related material you may already be familiar with, glue. You would think that there isn’t much to know about acrylic, but you would be wrong. There is a considerable knowledge base that one needs when working in this medium. And don’t get us started on glue. There should be a masterclass on that stuff…
Rik and Deane
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