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Michael Awad, Chair of the Board
Joined July 2004; elected Chair June 2006

Michael Awad holds both Bachelor and Masters degrees in Architecture, a Masters of Urban Design, and has taught at the UofT Faculty of Architecture for nearly a decade. First exhibited in 2001, Michael's experimental photography was included in and represented the 'Substitute City' exhibition at the Toronto PowerPlant Gallery, curated by Philip Monk. He was then selected to represent Canada at the 2002 Venice Architectural Biennale, and was commissioned to design the Canadian Pavilion at the 2004 Art Biennale of Brazil in San Paulo. His first solo exhibition, 'The Entire City Project', was presented in 2005 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curated by David Moos. His commissioned art works are now in the collections of The Art Gallery of Ontario, Pearson International Airport, the City of Toronto's Office of the Mayor, and York University. Awad was recruited as a board member in 2004 specifically to manage the relocation of InterAccess to its new location.

Robert Cruickshank
Elected November 1999

Robert Cruickshank is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. His works in various media including electronic and robotic installations, sound art, electroacoustic music, and photography have been exhibited in Toronto, and internationally. As a long-term member of InterAccess, he has participated in many collaborative projects, such as the shows Space Probe and SenseBus, and the Art Interface Device project. He is currently a member of I/O Media, an InterAccess-based electronic audio/visual improvisational group. He has developed a number of workshops at InterAccess, providing artists with an opportunity to learn electronics, and has assisted numerous artists with the technological challenges of realizing their works. By day, he works in the engineering department of CHUM Television.

Dafydd Hughes
Elected June 2006

Dafydd Hughes is an artist and music educator based in Toronto, Canada. He is an instructor in Music Technologies and Ear Training at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, and is active as a performer, composer and arranger in Toronto and throughout Canada. Dafydd's formal training includes studies at Mohawk College and the University of Toronto, where he earned a degree in jazz performance with a minor in composition in 1999. Since graduation he has worked extensively as a freelance performer, composer and arranger in Toronto's jazz, popular and improvised music scenes. Through involvement with new media organizations such as Toronto's InterAccess, Dafydd has devoted considerable research to the relationship between technology and art, concentrating on computer music and audio. He has developed several computer-based musical systems using programming environments such as Pure Data, Csound and Python. He has taught workshops in Pure Data and synthesis for several organizations including InterAccess.

Dave Kemp
Elected June 2008

Dave Kemp is a visual artist and recent graduate from the Master of Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto where he also complete the Collaborative Program in Knowledge Media Design. Prior to this, he earned an Image Arts (photography) BFA from Ryerson University and his BScE in Mechanical Engineering at QueenÕs University. His art practice looks at the intersections and interactions between art, science and technology - particularly at how these fields shape our perception and understanding of the world.
In addition to his personal art practice he has worked as the Studio Manager at Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Photo-Editor of the Toronto International Film FestivalÕs Festival Daily newspaper, as coordinator of the MediaGenerator initiative at University of Toronto Mississauga and as a technical consultant/designer for a number of artists including: Germaine Koh, Jessica Thomson, Lisa Steele + Kim Tomczak, Susan Schelle and David Rokeby.

Angella Mackey
Elected June 2008

Angella Mackey is a Toronto-based media artist and clothing designer. Her work focuses on analog and digital ways of intergrating functionality into fashionable garments. She earned a BFA from Ryerson University, specializing in New Media, and completed a residency at the Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab in 2008. She has worked extensively within the Toronto art community for festival and artist-run centres, and in 2007 coordinated an award-winning workshop The Digital Threads Network with Joanna Berzowska for the Textile Museum of Canada. Currently, Angella si participating in a 2-year research project at George Brown intergrating a heart monitor into a vest as well as designing fashions for the future runways of cyborgs.

Malka Greene
Elected April 2009

Information coming soon.

Stefan Powell
Elected January 2010

Information coming soon.