Inspired By The Folks at Site 3 Makers of Super Street Fire — by Fyrirrek

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.

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.

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

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!

If you don’t know Byron, he was arrested during Toronto’s G20, media reports have been across the board; from treating him as a terrorist, to a trouble-maker, to a hapless geek.

1. Toronto Life – a particularly negative article
2. Macleans on Byron as a scapegoat/gadfly
3. Boing Boing, the infamous video of his interrogation

We support Byron Sonne, the person, the maker, and his family. Join us at Site 3 coLaboratory Friday, December 16th, to support Byron Sonne.

For those without access to facebook, the event begins at 9pm:
Come party your ass off to celebrate the end of the first round of trial and to support Byron the best way we know how: by getting shitfaced. For silly legal reasons if will be BYOB, but there will be snacks, and *drum roll* a BACHELOR/ETTE AUCTION!

That’s right! You could be going on a date with Byron himself, or one of several other devastatingly sexy Byron supporters! Is this kinda silly? Yeah! So what!? It’ll be great!

All proceeds will go to help Byron and his family cover his ever-growing legal costs.

As Lauren says, “We’re getting better!” .. As I say, “Awesome burnination and bubbling guys!”

Sabrina Scott is a communication design student at OCAD, http://sabrinascott.ca/

Lauren and Paul started from zero experience with metal casting a couple of months ago, this week, they teamed up with Derek (our local 3D printing expert) to turn out some pretty awesome casts:

So bring your ideas, learn stuff, hang out – 7-10pm every Thursday!

Also, if you’re interested in getting involved in a fire-art based project; Seth Hardy’s “Super Street Fire” is having a meeting on December 11th, for people who want to contribute.