Exhibitions

One part dance, one part art and one part tech, The Music Room is an unusual project. A strange and beautiful blend of old media and new technology, The Music Room is best described as a contemporary dance and interactive media project.

Curated by Katie Varney and Jessica Fung We are a generation who grew up in a tuned-in and fully wired world. As infants, technology enveloped us, wrapping its circuit-board blankets around us, making its way into every part of our psyche. The fact technology has acted as our overbearing parents continues to make it difficult for us to obtain an objective viewpoint.

Curated by Michael Alstad and Camille Turner Signal: the sound, image or message transmitted or received in telegraphy, telephony, radio, television or radar.

Curated by Field Office

The line that separates us from the machines we create has become blurred. Our self-proclaiming notions of intelligence, awareness, identity, agency, and embodiment are no longer attributed solely to the human body. And instead of identity, we possess characteristics of connectivity that are most notably manifested through Embodied Conversational Agents.

Curated by Camille Turner

Curated by Michael Awad and John Knechtal Canada's entry in the 8th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2002. Presented by InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre and Alphabet City. Works by Michael Awad, Eve Egoyan and David Rokeby. Commissioned by Kathleen Pirrie Adams. Co-curated by Michael Awad and John Knechtal. More credits available below.

Curated by Michael Alstad and Camille Turner InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in partnership with Subtle Technologies and Year Zero One present Substance, an exhibition of interactive installations. The exhibit focuses on two works that stimulate participation and response in the fluid, dreamy interface between the virtual and physical.

Curated by Field Office Signals from the surrounding environment - transient personal information from parking lots, restaurants, city streets - are captured in a butterfly net receiver. Output data appear as beautiful clusters of sound-emitting light. Immediate and remote space are both transformed by Haruki Nishijima's invention of an imaginary ecology.

Alpha Girls is a collection of three "cyber performances" by internationally acclaimed Canadian performance artists Kinga Araya, Louise Liliefeldt and Tanya Mars. In collaboration with each artist, filmmaker Midi Onodera has directed and designed a DVD presentation of each performance that provides a set of unique interactive possibilities.

Knowledge of the body as the reversible surface of social life and self-identity is the shared concern that brings the works of Kinga Araya and Stelarc into dialogue. In both cases the artist ardently pursues this knowledge through the use of prosthetic devices that create awkward new shapes and complex new sets of gestures.

Curated by Marko Tandefelt in collaboration with Bryn Jayes As the datasphere becomes increasingly dense, many fear the loss of face-to-face communication and, along with it, much of what we think of as distinctively human. The exhibition F2F: New Media Art from Finland includes nine wired, participatory installations that explore the insistence of the human within the realm of the machine and the influence of the human-machine interface on our social selves.

Curated by Philippe Maurais Between Time and Space presents the work of six emerging artists - Josh Avery, Michael Graham, Adrianne Kulling, Galen Scorer, Nicholas Stedman and Mary-Anne Wensley � each of whom uses computer, electronic or mechanical media to explore the question of presence in a world increasingly shaped by new technologies.

For a moment a thing exists between two states, suspended. Lifted off the ground, it defies gravity. Placed in an arbitrarily measured space, it shifts its scale. En route between its source and its destination, it moves on airwaves or is telepresent. Mid Air is an exhibition of sculptural works that draw our attention to air as a medium of sound and vision, and as an elemental life force.

Wide is an exhibition angle that draws attention to the pervasiveness of hybrid practices and encourages their nomadic inclinations. It creates a temporary network that can be entered through any one of eighteen portal spaces. Travelling the city, encountering the situations that the exhibition comprises, the Wide audience follows a flexible circuit in which each concentrated moment rebounds back to the collecting question: What happens to the screen when its shards are everywhere?

Communication technologies and biotechnologies are the crucial tools recrafting our bodies. — Donna Haraway What happened in the middle of the twentieth century cannot simply be wiped off the table. It has fundamentally changed our relationship to what we can call (or want to or have to call) human. � Gerburg Treusch-Dieter

Transmedia 2000 is a three week exhibition of works by media artists shown on a 5 foot by 8 foot LED video billboard at the corner of Yonge and Eglinton streets in midtown Toronto. Each work exists as a fifteen-second clip exhibited on the billboard at intervals between commercial advertisements. Exhibited artists are Liu Wei, Lucinda Schreiber, Tanya Read, Rod Prouse, Kostya Mitenev, Louise McKissick, Willy LeMaitre and Eric Rosenzveig, Szabolcs Kisspal, Maya Khlobystina, Michelle Kasprzak, Jhave and Libby Hague.

Curated by Kulwinder Bajar and Mark Jones

The Appearance Machine is a perpetual animation device. It slowly grinds away, manufacturing scatological dramas from wrappers, packing material and other debris salvaged from its immediate surroundings. These objects form the set and become characters of a self-evolving, televisual world that is delivered to select locations via live feed from a broadband Internet link.

The story of Pandora is one of curiosity and risk, of choice and unforeseen consequences. The Pandora's Box exhibition uses this familiar tale to explore some of its obvious parallels to our contemporary encounter with technology.