November 10, 2010
Nick Tobier Receives Project Grant
A&D Associate Professor Nick Tobier has been awarded a Harpo Foundation grant for the production and operation of a year-long public project in Detroit. The project, New Newsstand for New News is a mobile news kiosk—equal parts reading room, news bureau and beacon, that combines electronic and print production of micro-local cultural reporting in Detroit. The focus for the Harpo Foundation’s award criteria in 2010 is the dialectic between the non-locality of the digital world and the existential physicality of our everyday environment—how our sense of place is being drastically altered by web space, which brings geographically distant locations together to form a new kind of locality, yet what’s small, local, personal, political and natural informs our vision for a sustainable future; the search for place-bound identity persists. New Newsstand in collaboration with C.A.I.D., The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, for the Harpo Foundation, reclaims the significance of the local while simultaneously placing itself within a global context, drawing upon local phenomena, activating social relationships and inspiring a community.
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