torontoist // Transaction Attraction

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EDWARD DAY GALLERY

is shaking up the

WEST QUEEN WEST

ATM experience

torontoist...

"Making an ATM withdrawal is a mundane task, and one that doesn't differ much across the different banks or types of machines, but the Edward Day Gallery is aiming to shake up the experience by injecting a little art into every transaction.


Located in a nondescript alcove at Queen and Shaw streets, an independently owned ATM is surprising customers with unusual imagery as part of the Bank on Art project. Users making transactions are exposed to a rotating series of six images per day (forty in total) ranging from Vladimir Kato's streetcar inferno to Evergon's photo of a half-naked sailor sporting a grass skirt and a mermaid tattoo...."

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