Rogers unveils Toronto's first LED artwork

TORONTO – It’s fitting that a company so committed to technology has commissioned an electronic work of art. Rogers Communications has unveiled a piece of public art at its downtown Toronto building on Bloor near Jarvis.Created by British artist Julian Opie, “People Walking 2006” is a huge flatscreen, measuring 10 feet by 6 feet, using tens of thousands of tiny LED lights that form life-sized electronic stick figure drawings that seem to walk. There are nine figures, male and female, based on the artist’s line drawings of actual people, whose patterns of movement are generated at random. It is the...