Last Friday I attended a monthly concert/party hosted at a luthier’s atelier in the garment district side of Mile End with my buddy and band mate Al Kohl of Loaded Films. We had the good fortune to meet Amy Vickberg and Jen Hamilton of Place magazine.
As luck would have it, Place magazine’s headquarters are in the same building (at Jen’s loft). Amy and Jen showed us the latest issues, but when I saw the Montreal Musical Mitosis project my eyes were glued to the work. What I saw before me was a hand drawn network graph of Montreal bands, with links between them that were representative of common band members. There are at least 150 bands on the graph.
The network graph was recently blown up and projected on a wall and various musicians were asked to draw links. Amy is also currently asking musicians to fill in links, in that sense the work is an ongoing piece and fits naturally with a web 2.0 crowdsourcing project, just completely offline! Amazing!
Naturally Place’s next issue is on tribes and communities, and they are looking for contributors… Does anyone of the Montreal Web 2.0 tribe want to submit something?
If so: submissions@placemag.org. The work should be b/w and 300dpi.
