Project: Art

Where art meets science. Experience, encounter and engage with art installations throughout your Science Centre visit. See what inspires you!

Following an international juried competition for the Grand Central Art Competition, the following three works have been selected as unique installations to enhance your Science Centre experience:

Lotic Meander

Walk along a 91-metre carved path of ebbs and flows and feel the pattern through the soles of your feet with Lotic Meander, a sculpture by Stacy Levy. A representation of a beautiful meandering river, get a visceral sense of the local Ontario waterways and the beauty of water currents.

FUNtain

Play the FUNtain! Created by professor and media artist Steve Mann, this outdoor interactive water fountain sculpture incorporates sound and water with form, function and a sense of frolic.

Cloud

Admire an iconic, kinetic artwork. Cloud, as created by David Rokeby, is a shape shifter, an elegant and seamless melange of art and science. It represents the complexity of the many stages of change in the world around us, from solid to liquid to gas. Experience Cloud from a number of different perspectives–from the floor below, the mezzanine above, or outside.

Connect with art (and science) throughout the Science Centre:

• !idea Gallery within the Weston Family Innovation Centre features art/media/technology exhibitions created by youth artists from around the world;
• Pipe Dreams by Bruce Shapiro and a conductive yarn art piece by Maggie Orth are artworks on display in the Weston Family Innovation Centre;
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• Programming merges the worlds of art with science, including events such as Digifest, an annual presentation of new media art work and performance.