Broken City Lab's Cross-Border Communication

Broken City Lab’s Cross-Border Communication

Broken City Lab is a group of artists and social researchers in Windsor. Over the past few nights, they’ve been sending messages to Detroit. By projecting very large Helvetica text onto the sides of buildings in Canada, they’re making phrases like “WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER” visible from across the river.

I think this project is so amazing. I know some might not agree with calling text projected on a wall “street art”, but I think it is. Anything that causes people to change the way they interact with their surroundings or even think about them differently is street art to me. Friend request accepted!!

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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Broken City Lab, Perfect Laughter. Perfect Laughter said: Did you know Windsor sends us messages at night? @BrokenCityLab's Cross-Border Communication: http://bit.ly/1s1yHK [...]

11-19-09 » 12:06 PM »
Michelle

thanks so much for posting this!! did you happen to catch any of the messages live from across the river?

11-19-09 » 12:55 PM »
christina

We had talked about going down to the riverfront to check it out, but the rain discouraged us. I hope you guys do it again!

11-19-09 » 2:06 PM »

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