Curatorial Internship

InterAccess is looking for an emergining curator for our 12th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition, on view this July.

Full details on the position and application guidelines are available on our Opportunities page.

Upcoming event: D-Pad: Directions in play/art/design

Please join us Friday February 3rd, at 8:30PM for D-Pad an evening of video game themed art, performances, and installations.

Details are available on the events page.

We're back!

Happy 2012! We're back in the office and ready to answer any of your InterAccess related questions. The gallery is closed until February 3rd, when we present D-Pad, details above.

The InterAccess office is open Tuesday to Friday 10AM-6PM, and Cultural Access Passes can be picked up during those times.

InterAccess 2011 Annual General Meeting, Dec. 8, 6pm

InterAccess members, please join us Thursday December 8 at 6pm for our Annual General Meeting.

As always, members in good standing are invited to learn about InterAccess' activities over the past year and to help in determining the future of the organization.

An agenda, including information on voting and election procedures, can be viewed or downloaded from here.

The minutes from the 2010 AGM, which must be approved by the membership this year, are available here.

If you can't attend the meeting but still wish to contribute, you can download a proxy form here. Finally, the InterAccess By-Laws are available in their entirety here.

We're hiring!

InterAccess is seeking applications for two new full time positions, Education Coordinator and Programming Coordinator.

Details on the positions are available on our opportunities page.

Upcoming Exhibition: Strategic Arts Initiative 2.0. November 3,4,5, 2011

Featuring Doug Back, Carl Hamfelt, Laura Kikauka, David Rokeby, Graham Smith, and Norman White.

InterAccess and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media are thrilled to present Strategic Arts Initiave 2.0, a re-installation of the seminal 1986 telepresence exhibition Strategic Arts Initiative (SAI). This exhibition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the initial exhibition and coincides with the centenary of the birth of Canadian philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan, whose writings informed and influenced much of the work in the original SAI exhibition.

More information is available on our exhibition page and the Strategic Arts Initiative website has detailed entries on the original exhibition as well as the artists involved. Remember to check back regularly for progress reports on the individual artit's works and the exhibition.

InterAccess is seeking applications for the role of Executive Director

See full details on our Opportunities page.

OAC Exhibition Assistance Program -- Deadline

InterAccess is a Media Arts Recommender for the OAC's Exhibition Assistance Program. We have two deadlines for 2011/12, the first of which is July 11th, 2011. If you have an upcoming exhibition that would like financial support for, please submit an application to InterAccess by July 11th. Please see our Calls page for more information on how to submit an application to InterAccess.

The OAC's Exhibition Assistance Program provides grants of $500 to $1,500 to assist individual artists with costs related to presenting their work in an exhibition.

Summer Workshops

InterAccess' summer workshop series starts in just a couple of weeks.

Check out the new schedule or follow the WURK IT link above.

"Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life" - Extended until June 18th

We've had some great responses to the "Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life" exhibition so we've extended the show by three weeks. Come on down (until June 18)!

TONIGHT!(MAY 7): HANDMADE MUSIC <3 MAKER FAIRE

We're having a Hand Made Music party tonight to celebrate Mini MakerFaire Toronto.

Doors at 10. Show at 10:45. PAY WHAT YOU CAN ($5 suggested)

Bands:

• ghettocyb.org
• Forktine
• Wood & Wire

Facebook event HERE.

Two new calls for submissions!

InterAccess has just added two new calls for gallery submissions:

• Call for Submissions: InterAccess' 11th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition
• Call for Gallery Proposals, 2011

Please see our calls page for more information about these and our ongoing calls for submissions.

Self-Capital reviewed in Now

Our current exhibition, Self-Capital, was reviewed in the current issue of Now.

You can read the review here.

ATTENTION CULTURAL ACCESS PASS RECIPIENTS

Unfortunately, InterAccess will not be open to the public this Saturday, March 26th, and we will not be available to distribute Cultural Access Passes.

We recommend checking here for information on other pick-up locations and that you visit the NFB Mediatheque at 150 John Street, in the Main Lobby, to pick up your passes this Saturday.

Information on the NFB, including hours and directions, is available here.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Laura and Guillermina on the radio

Guilllermina Buzio and Laura Paolini, curators of Bind Together, will be on Ryerson University's radio station -- CKLN 88.1FM -- tomorrow at 2:15pm. Live! Make sure to check them out either over the good old wireless or at http://www.ckln.fm/.

Bind Together is our current exhibition and a co-presentation with Pleasure Dome's New Toronto Works program. InterAccess is hosting the post-screening party this Saturday, March 19th, from 8pm to 2am.

New InterAccess Exhibition

InterAccess' new exhibition, Bind Together is a co-presentation with Pleasure Dome and its New Toronto Works program, now in its 18th year.

For more information about Bind Together please see our Exhibitions Page.

InterAccess currently has TWO calls for submissions:

• Our new programming platform, Plexi Pavilion
• Call for multiples for the InterAccess shop, Electronic Bric-a-Bracs

For more information about all these calls please see our Submissions page.

Cultural Access Passes

InterAccess is listed as a pick-up location for the Institute for Canadian Citizenship's Cultural Access Pass.

Congratulations to Daniel Barrow!

Last night it was announced that Daniel Barrow is the recipient of the 2010 Sobey Art Award.

Born in Winnipeg and in receipt of a BFA from the University of Mannitoba, Barrow was selected to represent the Prairies and the North in this year's competition. It was Barrow's connections to the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg and the Prairies that were explored in the show Beatrice's Centre for Student Affairs that was mounted at InterAccess in the fall of 2008. Curated by fellow Winnipeger Jennifer Cherniack, eatrice's Centre for Student Affairs explored the work of Barrow, Jo-Anne Balcaen and Evan Tapper, all of whom studied visual art at the University of Manitoba during the early-1990s.

Submissions Page Open!

Our submissions uploader page is now open. You have from now until November 22nd at midnight (your local time) to submit your proposals.

The call for submissions can be viewed here and the uploader is here.

Introducing InterAccess' new Artist's AXON

Starting today, members will be receiving weekly installments of our new Artist's AXON, which for the month of November, has been designed by Jeremy Bailey.

Here's a sneak peak at this month's AXON.

InterAccess has asked a number of artists to create templates for the AXON newsletter in the form of html files attached to the existing plain-text emails. Each artist-designed template will be used as the backdrop for a month of AXONs, sent exclusively to InterAccess members. At the end of each month, the series of newsletters will be made publicly available on our website, making way for the next month's design.

Jeremy Bailey is a video and performance artist whose work is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies (Marisa Olson, Rhizome). His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally. He received his MFA in Art Media Studies from Syracuse University in 2006. His work can be viewed, rented and acquired through Vtape in Toronto.

Pocket Video Workshops

InterAccess has teemed up with aluCine, the Toronto Latin Film & Media Arts Festival, to organise a series of workshops where you can learn how to produce celu-films, or pocket videos, for any and all of your portable devices.

The workshops will run November 15-18, 2010 from 10am to 4pm.

For more information, please see our events page.

DORKBOT with Kate McQuillen and Samina Mansuri

Come along to InterAccess this Thursday, October 21 at 7pm for a discussion with the artists Kate McQuillen and Samina Mansuri about technology, anxiety and their art practices.

A link to the event on facebook is available here.

InterAccess Annual General Meeting

Mark your calendars!

This year's AGM is Thursday, October 14th at 7pm.

The AGM provides insight into the progress made by InterAccess over the past year and gives members the opportunity to voice their opinion regarding the organization's future.

For more information about the AGM along with a link to a pdf outlining the meeting's agenda and all relevant bylaws please see our events page.

Congratulations to Jennifer Cherniack!

Jennifer Cherniack -- former InterAccess employee/marm -- has just received an Education Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries for her role in Gallery 44's OUTREACH program.

CALL FOR GALLERY PROPOSALS - 2011

InterAccess is currently seeking proposals for our 2011 programming year.

We are eager to consider original projects from artists, curators, and collectives. Keeping with our mission to expand the cultural space of technology, we support electronic, interactive, and new media works in sculpture, installation, video, software, sound/music, and performance.

In addition to a general call for proposals, we are also seeking projects which deal with the theme of Reset. Resetting plays a vital role in programming and electronics and it's a mechanism we're sure is familiar to many media artists. To reset is to return a failing program to its initial state and full potential. It's an escape from - but not a resolution to - the contradictions and errors that caused the program to freeze.

For further information about this call and the submission process please click here.

Introducing our new Gallery and Membership Coordinator, Rosie Spooner!

InterAccess is pleased to welcome Rosie as our newest staff member.

Rosie joins InterAccess after curating this summer's highly-successful 10th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition and stints at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and the Museum of Bristol.

You can contact Rosie with any of your membership (which has expired, by the way), workshop, or general InterAccess questions.

Her contact information, and biography, are available here.

IA closed Saturday, September 4th

InterAccess is closed this Saturday for the Labour Day weekend.

Our current exhibition, KUNSTKAMMER/WUNDERKAMMER, resumes Tuesday, September 7.

KUNSTKAMMER/WUNDERKAMMER held over until September 18th

We're extending our extraordinarily successful 10th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition until mid-September to give everyone 11 more chances to not have an excuse for not seeing it.

More information is available here.

2 Reviews of KUNSTKAMMER/WUNDERKAMMER!

Take a look at these great reviews of our current exhibition, KUNSTKAMMER/WUNDERKAMMER:

• EYE WEEKLY
• The Globe and Mail

KUNSTKAMMER/WUNDERKAMMER opens tonight!

Please join us for the opening of Kunstkammer/Wunderkammer our 10th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition.

Curated by 2010 Curatorial Intern, Rosie Spooner, and featuring the work of Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Philippe Blanchard, Christina Kostoff, Donna Legault, and Laura Payne.

Friday, July 23, 7-10 pm

Artists will be in attendance

Frédéric Lavoie Stop and Go Opens this Friday

Please join us for the opening of an exhibition of new work by Montreal artist Frédéric Lavoie.

Friday, June 18th, 7-10 pm

Artist will be in attendance

Dorkbot June: Instant Coffee and Sarah Beck

June 7, 7pm in the studio
To learn more: http://interaccess.org/events/index.php

TORONTRON comes to InterAccess!

The TORONTRON is a 1982 arcade cabinet that's been retrofitted to play six great games by local Toronto indies. For the month of June, the TORONTRON will be available for the public to play at InterAccess. It can be found outside of the studio in the front stairwell.

TORONTRON is produced by The Hand Eye Society and coincides with the 6-week workshop InterAccess will be running with them called The Artsy Games Incubator. Click here for more info on TORONTRON and here for more info on the workshop.

A DECADE OF SUPPORTING EMERGING ARTISTS AND CURATORS - TWO OPEN CALLS FOR ELECTRONIC MEDIA ART: INTERACCESS EMERGING ARTIST EXHIBITION 2010

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre is now accepting submissions for their 10th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition!

Call for Emerging Curator, Deadline: May 31, 2010
Call for Emerging Artists, Deadline: June 7, 2010

InterAccess is announcing two calls related to the 10th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition: Curatorial Intern and Submissions of Media Art. More details HERE.

Next Exhibition: contingent ecologies :: investigations at the edge

Presented as a partnership between InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Year Zero One and Subtle Technologies

May 22 to June 12, 2010
Opening Reception: June 4, 2010 at 7:30PM
For more info, click here

New phone and fax numbers

InterAccess has new phone and fax lines. We are once again available to answer all you InterAccess related questions.

PHONE: 416.532.0597
FAX: 416.532.3136