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Welcome to our community-centric, tech infused artistic display. It's still early days, to be sure. In the future we will be adding background stories from our contributing artists.
(We're located mere metres away from the Emergency Food Bank at the community hub.)
We're dubbing this:
C.R.E.A.T.E. (Connecting Reality, Exploring Artful Thought and Expression)
If you've scanned our QR code at the display, then...
The display you see before you is a community driven art installation. It is multi-modal and multimedia. There are some techie things; there are some completely non-techie things. It can be confused with a storefront display or, perhaps, a museum installation. It is neither. It's a living creation in the sense that it changes over time and in varying ways yet to be known--'organic growth'. It contains a wealth of love-of-creation--'inspiration', 'spirituality'. It freely invites everyone to participate, either in creation/production or admiration/contemplation. It has contributions by both engineers and artists, both youth and elders. It has (will have) enough responsiveness to appear alive (but not creepy)--hopefully enough to be amusing and engaging.
We hope you enjoy the opportunity to interact both with the installation and your community.
If you would like to get involved in this project, please contact us via email: steamfx2024@gmail.com
Or ask one of the staff at the Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Center.
Community Display blurb (Gemini-assisted).pdf2025-10-28 Finally: we found an opportunity to install the time-travel clock
2025-10-28 Finally: we found an opportunity to install the time-travel clock
NOTE: [2025-10-31] For the time being, unfortunately, the display case, and clock's dollar store construction, create an echo chamber. The amplified noise from the clock was quickly found to be disruptive to the nearby food bank's operation. So we've disconnected this effect while we work on either a way to dampen the noise, or hack a better, less resonant clock.
As you move past the display, the overhead lighting runs a different effect and the time-travel clock starts zipping thru the hours. Move closer and further from the centre of the display and the lighting and clock respond.
20251028_180131.mp42025-09-10 C.R.E.A.T.E. now has its first reactive element
2025-09-10 C.R.E.A.T.E. now has its first reactive element
The display should now react as you pass by. It will respond as you move in for a closer view. Stayed tuned as we add a time travel element.
20250910_183237.mp42025-07-02 Some tiny changes and a sneak peek at a couple of future contributions.
2025-07-02 Some tiny changes and a sneak peek at a couple of future contributions.
20250702_191158.mp420250704_222801.mp420250708_005157.mp42025-06-19 A splash of colour, a little more ground work, and ... our first greater Ottawa/Gatineau contribution
2025-06-19 A splash of colour, a little more ground work, and ... our first greater Ottawa/Gatineau contribution
We're so honored to be able to showcase our first independent (and, at least for now, anonymous) artwork contribution from Gatineau. Stay tuned as we prepare backstories from our inspired artists and artisans. We've started wiring up for some motion sensors, ultrasonic range finders, and perhaps a LiDAR module.
2025-05-15 Our humble starting point
2025-05-15 Our humble starting point
Initial backbone installation 2025-05-14.mp4Page updated
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