Exhibitions

InterAccess is pleased to present Travel an Inch, Erode a Day, the first installment in our beta series of members-driven exhibitions and featuring the work of recent graduates Christina Kostoff (the recipient of InterAccess' Media Arts at OCAD 2009 prize) and Raz Rotem. Please join us for the opening reception on October 22 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 InterAccess is excited to present Trivial Pursuits: Mass Distraction, the 9th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition opening reception on Friday, July 10th, at 7pm. Please join us for oral fixation and hyperactive banter as the curator leads an informal discussion with the artists at 8pm.

This exhibition is programmed by and presented in conjunction with the 22nd Images Festival, 2-11 April 2009. For more information please visit www.imagesfestival.com.

For over two decades Geoffrey Shea has been creating idiosyncratic video installations and interactive works laced with de-nuded language and stripped- down technology to question not only the tales we tell ourselves, but the very telling itself.

InterAccess is please to present OCAD ON QUEEN 2009, an exhibition of multimedia works from 4th-year Thesis students in OCAD's Sculpture/Installation program. The exhibition at InterAccess is one of seven exhibitions of student work from the program to be staged along Queen West over the next two months. This is the second year InterAccess has participated in this program. Artists: Gloria Bernal Nicholas Carlino Rewaia Derek Twilt More information is available here.

InterAccess is pleased to present Electronic Shamanism, an exhibition of four interactive electronic media art works from Victoria, Toronto, Montreal and Texas that incorporate kinesthetic interaction and a wide range of sensorial engagements to examine the similarity between the shamanic experience and our interactions with high technology. The works in the exhibition also consider technology as a vehicle and mediator of shamanistic experiences, bringing spirituality and technology together, combining age old rituals and emergent media.

September 26-November 22, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, September 26th, 8pm Special Nuit Blanche Performance by Evan Tapper, October 4th from 7pm-7am at InterAccess. Presented by the Koffler Gallery in partnership with InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre Special Artist Talk, Daniel Barrow Thursday, October 16, 8pm Juicy Couture Panel Discussion, Saturday, October 18, 2-5pm

InterAccess is pleased to present Cake on the Icing, the 8th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition. Since 2001, InterAccess has mounted an annual Emerging Artists' Exhibition showcasing new media works by post-secondary students and/or recent graduates. This initiative aims to offer young artists professional experience and exposure.

Resonating Bodies is a series of mixed media installations and community outreach projects, which focus on the biodiversity of pollinators indigenous to the ecosystems of the Greater Toronto Area.

InterAccess is pleased to present Lightweight, an exhibition featuring Toronto artists Marcia Huyer and Tomasz Smereka. An adjunct exhibition with the 11th annual Subtle Technology Festival, Lightweight uses the festival's theme of "Light" in an unconventional, quirky and light-hearted way. Interpreting "Light" as in levity, this playful exhibition features artists who work with inflatable structures and objects. Huyer's installation- white, immersive and welcoming, contrast and play off of Smereka's black, minimalist and haunting sculptural works.

A multi-media interactive installation of liminalityPresented in conjunction with the Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival InterAccess is proud to present York University MFA 2008 candidate Niknaz Tavakolian, who will be presenting her graduating exhibition, float/fly.

Where Fantasy, Role Playing, and Hidden Treasures are only a drop kick away

Inter(PR)Axis is a free one day conference addressing the historical context, current practice and future directions of media art in Toronto and beyond, as a parallel event with the InterAccess exhibition IA25: Mapping a Practice of Media Art.

Looking back on 25 years of looking forward An exhibition featuring the work of Simone Jones & Julian Oliver, Lorena Salomé, Galen Scorer and Norman White.

Canada's most promising emerging new media artists showcase their work at InterAccess Technology and failure go hand in hand, sometimes with disastrous consequences, though more often with a sadly comic twist. Two Steps Back is interested in this game of trial and error? the featured artists play with glitches, futility, randomness and ridiculousness. The fraught relationship between machines and their shortcomings is often represented as apocalyptic and ominous.

InterAccess is pleased to present BETA in beta, the first exhibition in the InterAccess beta series. beta is a pilot project to showcase the work of our members and strengthen the connection between the production and exhibition phases of new media art at InterAccess.

THE DUALITY OF HUMAN DIGNITY: TWO SHORT ESSAYS ON MONIR MONIRUZZAMAN AND JACK BUTLER JOHN K. GRANDE

InterAccess is pleased to present The Watch Man, a new major video and sound installation by internationally acclaimed London-based artist Shona Illingworth. In the exhibition, the artist weaves together the physical and the psychological, creating an immersive environment where a complex sound composition surrounds the viewer. Using feonic audio technologies originally developed by the US Navy, the installation activates the gallery space, turning the floor into a speaker that resonates with sound.

InterAccess is pleased to present ZOO, an exhibition of three works by three artists that artfully integrate natural and artificial life, colliding the realm of living things with the genre of creative electronics. Artists Ingrid Bachmann, Garnet Hertz and Amy Youngs explore the complex relationship between technology, culture and nature. This exhibition includes a cockroach-controlled robot, a holodeck for house crickets and hermit crabs that surf the net! Read the essay by Matthew Brower here.

Join the flock and play with our fuzzy balls at InterAccess . . . Curated by Caroline Seck Langill