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Intro to Electronic Fabrication – Part One: Breadboarding and Soldering

DATE: July 21 7pm to 10pm
INSTRUCTOR: Rob Cruickshank
COST: $25

and plus

Atari Punk Console

DATE: July 23 7pm to 10pm
INSTRUCTOR: Rob Cruickshank
COST: $50 ($25 + $25 kit fee)

More information is available (and other workshops will appear) here.

On Monday of this week, we thought we’d do some experimental baking. The experimental filmmaker was a bit hesitant but I had been craving cake all week (note: yogurt is not cake or a cake substitute) and I wanted to try the recipe below. We didn’t have the right shaped pan but baked it for an hour and thought it was fine. We came back into the kitchen 20 minutes later and it deflated a little. It still tasted great though, even if it was a semi fail cake.

So I decided this chocolate monster could not stay in my house any longer, so I brought the cake to InterAccess because we were installing the Emerging Artist’s show (opens tomorrow!! Friday!!) . The cake went over really well!! Even though Denise made the recipe and it won her first price at the county fair, here at IA we deem it “Installation Cake.”

We substituted Apple sauce for the oil in this recipe. See below:
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We’re very excited to present our 9th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, curated by our curatorial intern, Jennifer Chan. Please join us this Friday for the opening reception at 7PM.

Trivial Pursuits: Mass Distraction
9th Annual InterAccess Emerging Artists Exhibition
Opening Reception Friday July 10th, 7PM
Q&A with artists and curator 8PM

Roja Aslani
Erin Gee
David Han
Beatriz Herrera
Steve Shaddick
Blake Williams

Curated by Jennifer Chan

Since 2001 InterAccess has organized an annual Emerging Artists’ Exhibition to showcase new media artworks by post-secondary students and/or recent graduates. This initiative aims to offer young artists professional experience and exposure.

For more information, please visit: http://interaccess.org/exhibitions/index.php

DORKBOT: BRUCE ELDER AND LORNA BAUER
Thursday July 16, 7PM

Dorkbot presents “Available Light: Bruce Elder and Lorna Bauer”

Please join us Thursday July 16th 2008 at 7pm for an open discussion with filmmaker R. Bruce Elder and artist Lorna Bauer.

R. Bruce Elder has been described as one of Canada’s foremost experimental filmmakers. His signature ‘rough handling’ technique creates stunning imagery, and he considers himself “more like a catalyst of artistic creation rather than a deliberate creator” (artandculture.com). His career spans thirty years. Emerging artist Lorna Bauer’s video work creates constructed spaces that present a transformational process with illusionary qualities. “What Bauer gives us here is a simple rehearsal of our fascination with phenomena� movement – whether slight or violent-light, rupture and disintegration, and the cycles of return – light to dark, dark to light beginning and ending” (Ian Carr-Harris). Both speakers will take turns separately introducing their practice on a technical and theoretical level, and continue to involve the audience in discussion with open questions, and in a conversational matter. Free to the public and seating is on a first come-first serve basis.

Dorkbot-Toronto is always free and open to the public. For more information, email dorkbottoronto@dorkbot.org

More information is available here.

You might have seen Jessica Field at a recent Dorkbot, or taken one of her workshops. She’s just launched a new website with all her work- check it out.