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What Brings Portland Joy? Bots #70-107

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Gary Hirsch

What Brings Portland Joy? I was curious so I created an interactive art experiment designed to answer that question. Throughout the month of March I am leaving 200 Joy Bots in random locations (see below) throughout the city of Portland, each with a set of simple instructions attached.

The goal is to document what brings Portland Joy, and to give a little joy back to the city that I love so much. People that find a Bot are invited to photograph their Joy Bot with something that brings them Joy (object, animal, person, idea, anything), and to send in their photograph and story to help me create an on-line “What Brings Portland Joy” exhibition . Finally participants are invited to leave their Bot in another random location in Portland to continue the experiment.

Below are where I left Bots #70-107

Click here to see the updated results: What Brings Portland Joy 2012

: Bot #72 left at membership desk Portland art museum

: Bot #73 Portland Art Museum Sculpture Garden

: Bot #74 Portland Art Museum Sculpture Garden

: Bot #75 SW Taylor and Park

: Bot #76 left at Clarklewis

: Bot #77 Left at Bunk Bar SW SE Taylor

: Bot #78 left at Fat Alberts Sellwood

: Bot #79 Left at Haggis McBaggis Sellwood

: Bot #80 Left outside of Samuri Lunch Box Sellwood

: Bot #81 Nectar Sellwood

: Bot #84 Staccto Gellato

: Bot #84 Bybee and Milwaukie

: Bot #85 Saburos Sellwood

: Bot #87 36th and Yamhill

: Bit #88 Stumptown Belmont

: Bot #86 Se 37th and Yamhill

: #89 Suzette Belmont

: Bot #91 Pine State Biscuits

: Bot #92 NT PIzza Belmont

: Bot #93 Tao of tea belmont

: Bot #94 Rice Junkies Hawthorne

: Bot #95 Emeldas Hawthorne

: Bot #96 SE 35th and Hawthorne

: Bot # 97 34th and Hawthorne

: Bot # 98 left at Hawthorne Ben and Jerry’s

: Bot #99 left at 35 Hawthorne

: Bot #100 Hawthorne Starbucks

: Bot #101 Buffalo Exchange Hawthorne

: Bot #103 35th and Hawthorne

: Bot #104 Fresh Pot Hawthorne

: Bot #102 Powell’s Hawthorne

: Bot #105 36th and Hawthorne

: Bot #106 & 107 left at emerge underground opening

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