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Interactive art/sculpture

This life-size sculpture of Oscar Peterson is located outside the National Arts Centre in Ottawa ON. His piano recordings are played 24/7, and can only be heard within say...4 metres of the sculpture. It attracts passersby as does the invitation to sit beside the figure on the bench. I passed it daily for a year and often saw people sitting beside him for a moment. Like the comment about public art in Chicago, the sculpture garden there is full of art to interact with.

Fixing architecture in hamilton with the help of artists

When I was little I always loved going downtown to see the unique buildings and parks, but over the years they have been ruined by wear and tear. Instead of fixing them the city has decided to just replace them with new buildings. Letting artists help with restoring old buildings and turning some abandoned places to art galleries and such to make them more engaging

Silly Blue Circle in Calgary

I lived in Calgary for several years. At one point we noticed that there seemed to be a new art installation on an overpass over hwy 2, a large blue circle, integrated into a light post. The location always seemed weird to me, from looking it up now there does seem to be a mixed use path next to the road, but it’s not a common place for people to be or hang out. It became something my partner and I would look for and laugh at as we drove by, but we never searched it out to go see…