PARTIES, SHOWS, PERFORMANCES, AND SNIFFING
2007 events at IA
All events are at InterAccess (9 Ossington Ave) unless otherwise stated
Poole Party
Friday April 6, 2007, InterAccess Studio (Cocktail Lounge) 9:00 pm -2:00 am
Following the opening reception of
The Watch Man from 9:00 pm to 2:00 am, InterAccess will host an appreciation party for David Poole, who recently retired after many years of service at the Canada Council for the Arts, where he began working in 1986 and spent the last eight years as the Head of the Media Arts Section. InterAccess and Images Festival welcome the community to enjoy a toast and celebration for David Poole's exemplary contribution to the policies and programs that have served and continue to serve artists and arts organizations across Canada. Please join us for DJs, drinks and dancing until dawn!
Co-presented by InterAccess and the Images Festival.
Life Is Good'-Window projection at IA, from dusk til dawn by Jesse Bellon
March 26th - April 15th
Opening Reception: March 31st, 9pm
Jesse Bellon is an MFA candidate at York University. His video work addresses themes of urban space, technology, and its affects on the subject through mimicking the jarring, repetitive, and fragmented nature of 'postmodern' society. They combine the harsh reality of the world with the dreamlike reality in our minds, portraying simultaneously the actual and the idealistic.
Sources and Sinks: An Experiment in Collaboration on a Network- 1/3 at InterAccess!
Saturday, March 31st, 2007 / 12PM - 5PM (one day only!)
Sources and Sinks: An Experiment in Collaboration on a Network, an exhibition that will defy the idea of physical space presented to you by the 3rd year Image Arts New Media students in partnership with students from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Sources and Sinks appropriates internet technology to enable a collaboration between artists and distribute their product within three physically remote nodes in Toronto: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Ryerson University, and Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). For information, please go to:
http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/sourcesandsinks/.
Yo Sniff This
Thursday, March 29, 7pm
Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
This event is free and open to the public
PORTAGE, (OCAD's first major locative technology research project), in association with Interaccess are pleased to invite you to an evening of discussion concerning the use of wireless internet technologies (WiFi) by artists.
Joining us are: New York artist Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena who's WiFi enabled city wide game Noderunner won the Ars Electronica Net Vision Award. Toronto artist/activist Gabe Sawhney founder of WirelessToronto, a community wireless network setting up free-to-use hotspots in public and semi-public spaces in the city.
A representative from Toronto Hydro Telecom, which recently blanketed the city of Toronto in subscription based WiFi service. Interaccess Public Programmes Coordinator Jeremy Bailey will moderate what is sure to be a lively discussion.
I/O Media Aboveground
Friday, January 19, 9PM - 11PM
Live electronic a/v improv using circuit-bent game consoles, bees bees bees, noise, and more buddha machine. With Special Guests: Smash and Teeny (Sarah Peebles and Nilan Perera) Featuring: David McCallum, Dafydd Hughes, Rob Cruickshank, Michael Trommer, Mandelbrut, Kristin Trethewey, Oliver Heinrich, Rob King. For more information, please go to:
http://interaccess.org/studio/iomedia.php and
http://robcruickshank.net/flyer1.jpg.