Digital Natives/Other Sights for Artists' Projects

Digital Natives, a publication by Other Sights for Artists’ Projects and the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, documents the public art project Digital Natives, presented on the electronic billboard at the Burrard Street Bridge, in Vancouver, Canada. Located on Skwxwú7mesh territory in the heart of the city, the digital signs flash a static advertisement every ten seconds. Using the form of tweets, artists and writers from across North America contributed text messages that interrupted the broadcast ads during April, 2011, the 125th Anniversary of the City of Vancouver. Selected contributions were translated into Skwxwú7mesh, Kwak’wala, and hǝn’q’ǝmin’ǝm’/Musqueam languages. Designed by Judith Steedman, the publication includes essays by Candice Hopkins, Clint Burnham, and Lorna Brown, a history of the site created by historian Susan Roy, and selected entries from the project blog along with reproductions of the work of contributing artists and writers: Candice Hopkins, cheyanne turions, Chris Bose, Christian Bok, Daina Warren, Edgar Heap of Birds, Emily Fedoruk, Henry Tsang, Jeff Derksen, Larissa Lai, Lisa Robertson, Lori Emerson, Marianne Nicolson, Mercedes Eng, Michael Turner, Peter Morin, Phillip Djwa, Postcommodity, Rachel Zolf, Raymond Boisjoly, Rita Wong, Roger Farr, Sonny Assu, and Tania Willard.

Other Sights for Artists’ Projects