Announcing the 2025 IA Current Curator: Lingxiang Wu

InterAccess is pleased to announce the selection of emerging curator Lingxiang Wu for the 2025 IA Current program. Wu will curate a group exhibition taking place in InterAccess’s gallery in Fall 2025 exploring compulsive cycles of digital engagement—loops of desire, performance, and temporary relief.

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ABOUT THE CURATOR  

Lingxiang Wu is a Chinese queer visual artist, chronically online researcher, and compulsive overthinker currently based in Toronto, Canada. His work critically engages with digital aesthetics, invisible labor, and algorithmic culture, addressing our entanglement within the attention economy. Spanning photographic collage, video, animation, and installation, his practice explores how contemporary digital culture and technology influences ways of being under the spell of neoliberal capitalism, humorously trying to process his own productivity dysmorphia. His research-driven projects, Digital Landfill and Performative Digital Bodies, examine the cycle of production and consumption facilitated through desires and immediate gratifications. Wu has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and has exhibited internationally in Canada, the U.S., and South Korea. He holds an MFA from OCAD University and is committed to fostering critical discourse on digital culture and image making.

ABOUT IA CURRENT  

The InterAccess Current (IA Current) program supports the professional development of emerging curators and artists interested in new media and electronic practices. Each year, InterAccess selects an emerging curator, who works closely with InterAccess staff to conceptualize and execute an exhibition of works by emerging artists. “Current” refers to the now, of course, but it is also an energetic charge that causes light, heat and all manner of electronic life; an apt metaphor for emergent creative practices within the ever-expanding field of new media.

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