Dispensing Culture

distrobotomachineweb-739x1024

Distriboto is a brilliant project in Montreal that re-purposes old cigarette vending machines to dispense comic books, zines, poetry, stories, mini-CDs, pins,and assorted original artworks. Collaborating with more than 1,000 local artists and writers, the project loads old vending machines with items that all sell for $2.00, with $1.75 going to the creators. The machines are found around Montreal and Quebec City in bars, clubs, libraries, performance spaces, and cafés.

341d7375d

lead_large-1

dsc00861bsm-1024x817

This entry was posted in Art, Books, Canada, Libraries, Writing and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to Dispensing Culture

  1. These machines have long fascinated me, and I’ve written about them when I’ve run across them here in the Midwest! http://www.midwestguest.com/2009/10/affordable-accessible-art-at-the-art-o-mat-in-the-chicago-cultural-center.html

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.