BIOGRAPHIES

Michael Awad
Michael Awad holds a Bachelor of Architecture, Masters of Architecture, and a Masters of Urban Design from the University of Toronto. He is an Assistant Professor adjunct at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. He has professional architectural experience in the offices of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects and Shim/Sutcliffe Architects, and was curator of the 10 Schools of Architecture Exhibition in 1995, commissioned by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Canadian Collegiate University School of Architecture. The exhibition traveled across Canada, the United States and Great Britain. He later served for several years on the editorial board of the RAIC. In 1997, Awad was architectural advisor and Creative Director of Immersion Studio's first digital panoramic film. His first self-directed architectural project has been published in both the popular and academic press. As a professional architectural photographer, his client list includes many of Canada's leading architectural firms, institutions and publishers. Awad's landscape photography has recently been translated into a 3m by 300m long public train station mural. His experimental urban photography has been exhibited at Toronto's Powerplant - Canada's preeminent contemporary gallery.


Eve Egoyan
As a concert pianist, Eve Egoyan specializes in the performance of newly commissioned music. She is known for her ability to listen and communicate the unfamiliar directly to her audience. She has appeared as a soloist in works by many Canadian and international composers in numerous festivals across Canada and around the world; many performances have been recorded and broadcast by the CBC. Her first solo CD, thethingsinbetween, was included in the Globe and Mail's 1999 "Top Ten" list and her second CD will be released by CBC Records in 2002. She has created the sound world for Hedda's House by video installation artist Gunilla Josephson and has collaborated improvisationally with Michael Snow, Malcolm Goldstein and Martin Arnold. Egoyan has also been a member of the multi- disciplinary ensemble Urge and is presently touring The Satie Project nationally and internationally with Dancemakers. Channel is the first collaboration between David Rokeby and Eve Egoyan.


David Rokeby
David Rokeby is a Toronto-based installation artist and a winner of Canada's 2002 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. His works reflect his interests in visual perception, language, surveillance and the human bodyıs relationship with technology. These works have been exhibited extensively in a broad range of international venues. Mr. Rokeby's pioneering installation Very Nervous System has evolved into a system used by composers, video artists and medical facilities in many parts of the world. This September, Rokeby will be presented the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, the most prestigious international award for interactive art.


John Knechtel, curator
John Knechtel is Editor of Alphabet City, a non-profit media company he founded in 1991, which is currently in the last design phases of its new volume, the 680-page Lost in the Archives (due out September 2002). In its first decade, Alphabet City has produced seven volumes as well as international conferences and now exhibitions. Knechtel has led the organization through a dynamic decade that saw the project develop from a newsprint tabloid to a visually sophisticated large-format book distributed internationally by DAP of New York City. He has been recognized in such venues as Vanity Fair, the Globe and Mail, and CITY-TV's Media Television as a leader of the cultural avant-garde.


Kathleen Pirrie-Adams, commissioner
Kathleen Pirrie Adams has been the Program Director at InterAccess since 1997. She also teaches at Ryerson University in the New Media program. She received an honours BA from the University of Toronto and an MA from York University's Social and Political Thought program.

Kathleen has published widely in the independent arts press and has curated many screening programs and new media exhibitions including: Appearance Machine by Willy le Maitre and Eric Rosenzveig (InterAccess), + Flesh: Augmentations of the Female Form (Pleasure Dome), Game Girls: Variations on the Holding Theme (InterAccess), Prior Art: Art of Record for Personal Safety the work of Steve Mann (Toronto Photographers Workshop). She works on the installations component of the Images Festival with Amanda Ramos and Deirdre Logue as the Field Office , a collaborative team that develops urban exhibition strategies for media art.