Here's a map. Sadly there are none in Toronto.

The goal of the project is to liberate art from what Invader calls "its usual alienators", that being museums and other institutions. It is about bringing art out and into the public realm so that everyone can enjoy it. And this is precisely what makes his mosaics so wonderful -- it is their playful integration into the urban landscape.

But these aren't exactly sanctioned pieces of art. If he started out by asking, the answer probably would have been no.

Invader thinks of himself as a kind of hacker of public realms. He keeps his identity concealed. He installs these mosaics during the night (from what I have read). And sometimes he gets in a lot of trouble.

Sometimes they also get removed by the building owner, though at this point his mosaics are pretty well known, so I can't imagine many owners not wanting to be "invaded."

But let me ask all of you this: If you owned a building in a major city and woke up tomorrow morning to a Space Invader on the front of it, would you celebrate it, apathetically leave it, or would you remove it immediately?

Here's a map. Sadly there are none in Toronto.

The goal of the project is to liberate art from what Invader calls "its usual alienators", that being museums and other institutions. It is about bringing art out and into the public realm so that everyone can enjoy it. And this is precisely what makes his mosaics so wonderful -- it is their playful integration into the urban landscape.

But these aren't exactly sanctioned pieces of art. If he started out by asking, the answer probably would have been no.

Invader thinks of himself as a kind of hacker of public realms. He keeps his identity concealed. He installs these mosaics during the night (from what I have read). And sometimes he gets in a lot of trouble.

Sometimes they also get removed by the building owner, though at this point his mosaics are pretty well known, so I can't imagine many owners not wanting to be "invaded."

But let me ask all of you this: If you owned a building in a major city and woke up tomorrow morning to a Space Invader on the front of it, would you celebrate it, apathetically leave it, or would you remove it immediately?

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