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InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
T: (416) 599-7206
Permanent Staff:Director/Curator Assistant Curator/Education Coordinator Business Manager Contract/Part-time Staff:Studio Technician Gallery Assistant 2007 Interns: Regular volunteers: To contact a permanent staff member directly, type in their entire name with a period or dot in between first and last name, and then the shift-2-at symbol, then interaccess then another period then org. Confusing? Yeah, we thought so. But it kind of needs to be if we want to ward off evil spam...trust me, it's bad. All of us here at InterAccess endeavour to attend to every phone and email inquiry as promptly as possible. However, because most of us are part time, please allow up to one week at the maximum for a response. See our office hours* listed above for the best times to reach us in-house. If we happen to miss you, please try again- the spam gods aren't kind these days. Really, it's nothing personal. *Please note: All staff hours vary depending on exhibitions, grant writing, workshops and all other special Artist Run Centre things. While each staff member has set office hours, sometimes, they will change. Not too often, but if they do, we know you'll understand! If you have an event to post for our members' newsletter, Axon, you should write to the following address: type the name of our newsletter, followed by a period, followed by the word event, then another dot, then the word submissions. Then add the shift-2-swirl and interaccess.orgIf you are an art or tech person or group with a press release you think our staff should see, you should send it to the following address: the word synapse then the shift-2 then the usual endy-part. What's a synapse? It's the gap between nerve cells where energy impulses pass. Whereas the Axon is the long neural fibre along which impulses travel.... Please note: InterAccess does not accept unsolicited submissions of artwork except during our calls for submission periods. Please check under "calls and opportunities" for more information. As much as we love art, and being introduced to new artists, if you are not responding to a call, we're afraid we can't respond to your work. We're a relatively small centre and this is all we can manage successfully. Thanks for understanding, and please look out for our calls a few times per year.
Staff biographiesDana Samuel is a Toronto-based artist, writer and curator. She has shown her media-based installations at Galleri F15 (Moss, Norway), Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax), Latitude 53 (Edmonton) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto). In 2005, she was the first Canadian invited to the Office for Contemporary Art's internationally reknown Independent Studio Program residency in Oslo, Norway. Her writing has been published by Stride Gallery (Calgary), Mercer Union (Toronto), Canadian Art, and FUSE Magazine. She holds an MFA from the University of Western Ontario and undergraduate degrees from the Ontario College of Art & Design in Sculpture/Installation and McMaster University in Life Sciences. Dana accepted the position of Director/Curator at InterAccess in the spring of 2005, where she curated the new location's inaugural exhibition, and for which she was short-listed for Emerging Curator of the Year at the "2006 Untitled Art Awards" in Toronto. She currently sits on the Advisory Council of the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, and was recently honoured with a Toronto Jewish Arts Council Award. Tania Thompson is an arts administrator specializing in fundraising and programme development. Since moving to Toronto in 1998 from Vancouver, Tania has helped develop numerous arts organizations including Subtle Technologies, tete-a-tete collective, and New Music Arts Projects, and has created several successful special initiatives such as the Queen West Art Survey and MAYO, a media arts literacy programme for youth. Tania is the founder and principal of ReDefinery, an interdisciplinary consultancy whose clients include the Youth Science Foundation Canada, Cultural Human Resources Canada and the Toronto School of Art. Jennifer Cherniack is an emerging artist and educator. She earned her BFA in 2003 from the University of Western Ontario, and, in 2004, was a Peggy Guggenheim Collection Intern in Venice, Italy. She has exhibited her artwork in Toronto, London, Ontario, Winnipeg, and in Venice Italy. Originally from Winnipeg, Jennifer brings several years' experience in curating, outreach, education and installation at the National Film Board of Canada's Toronto Mediatheque, Gallery 44/Regent Park Focus in Toronto, the ArtLab Gallery in London, Ontario and numerous independent projects in both Toronto and Winnipeg. Jennifer speaks English, French and some Italian. Jess Brouse is an interactive artist, designer and educator. He is a graduate of Ryerson University with a BFA in New Media. Jess is interested in studying the nature of energy that connects hardware, software and wetware circuits. His projects include virtual environments, robotics, interactive exhibits, and microscopic exploration. Jess is also an enthusiast for the open source movement, hacktivism, and participatory culture. Geoff Piersol is a graduate of the University of Toronto, having recently completed a Masters of Information Studies (MISt). Previously, Geoff earned his BA Honours in Fine Art History and Visual Studies, also at U of T. At InterAccess, Geoff is working towards the organization and documentation of the gallery's records and archives from the past 2+ decades. One of his primary goals is the creation of a publicly accessible and electronically searchable database; this will provide access to such materials as artist files and past exhibition documents. Geoff has a keen interest in art librarianship, and in addition to his assistance with the InterAccess archives, Geoff works as a bibliographic assistant at the University of Toronto and as a reference librarian at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Sarah Todd is an emerging curator, artist and writer. She earned her BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2006. Recently she has worked with Vtape Video Resource Center, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects and The Ontario College of Art and Design. Sarah has lived in Calgary, Victoria BC, Florence, Italy and Toronto. She is currently interested in television, archives and dancing. Luis Hernandez is a great guy. His bio will be up shortly. |
