Site 3 moving pictures
some of the familiar faces you’ll see at Site3.ca open house – every Thursday evening 7pm til late – here are some members’ video posts:
Inspired By The Folks at Site 3 Makers of Super Street Fire — by Fyrirrek
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Summer 2012 Artist in Residence program
Site 3 is happy to announce our inaugural artist in residence program for summer 2012! We can’t wait to see what you create. Here are the full details:
Site 3 coLaboratory Artist in Residence program
When is the residency?
June 1, 2012 to Sept. 1, 2012
Where is the residency?
Site 3 coLaboratory, 718r Ossington Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada.
How To Apply:
Send the following to info@site3.ca by 11:59pm on April 30th, 2012:
As your cover letter, introduce yourself and provide a no-more-than 750-word essay on why you want to come work with us. We need to know who you are and what you’ve done and why you think we’re a good fit for you.
Attached to e-mail, submit a project proposal totalling no more than 1000 words and three supporting images that tells us how you intend to use the shop space and the shop equipment.
What You Get:
- Three months access to Site 3 coLaboratory, with key.
- Free access to any normal member workshops hosted in the period, ie: basic equipment training classes. Example: Laser.
- Funding for liquor licence and normal liquor, portable toilet, etc. for display show at end.
What We Need You To Supply:
- You will organize a full display of work produced for a show-off event at the end of your residency; a lightning talks round, a DJ night, something to display the work you’ve done.
- A report of what you’ve done for our website, so we can promote you. And us, of course.
- You will need to be present to participate in events such as the Hackerspaces Art Crawl on the 16th of June.
Who Qualifies:
We are looking for artists and artisans with a view to the future. Preference will be given to those not previously affiliated with Site 3, although of course we would like to see a broad range of response. Preference will be given to interdisciplinary project proposals which incorporate a high level of technical accomplishment with some element which could not be easily achieved without the support of Site 3. We are open to proposals from emerging artists (“The Youngs”), but emerged artists (“The Olds”) are also specifically welcome to apply. There will be no preference given to one material technique over another.
We want to see some amazing things. We think you have some idea of what you want to make. Come make it with us.
Hot Metal
Paul and Lauren are members who make metal things..The quest for a Site 3 logo belt buckle is ongoing, but their equipment is definitely getting sexier!
Molten aluminum in a graphite crucible 
Heating coils are 20 gauge nichrome wire connected to 120V AC. Insulation is ceramic fiber blanket in a steel bucket. Consumes around 1200W and requires minimal supervision.
More open house goodness
Fun with lightning, video auditions, an intro to Arduino course, oyster shucking, and popping corn with nichrome.
Vacuforming Heads!
Derek's 3D printed head with Dana's vacuformed mask!
Last night at the open house: Dana’s home-made vacuforming efforts resulted in a bunch of people leaving the shop with a mask of Dana.
“I think Halloween this year is going to be a blast!” – Dana
” I would like to order a stormtrooper costume please. ” – Paul Walker
Site 3 coLaboratory – how does it work? (part 1)
Hi-ho, syber reporting here! One random Thursday in November, myself and Michelle-the-intern chatted with a couple of Site 3 members about what they were doing there. We didn’t warn anyone we were doing this, so there’s lots of activity and background noise, and as it turns out – that’s exactly what Site 3 is about.
So Site 3: it’s about being loud and burning things without getting in trouble.
The next video will hopefully feature our hardworking founders; Alex and Seth, who are teaching a flame effects class very soon!
