Announcing the 2026 IA Current Curator: Komal Lally
InterAccess is pleased to announce the selection of emerging curator Komal Lally for the 2026 IA Current program. Lally will curate a group exhibition taking place in InterAccess’s gallery in Fall 2026 examining how exploration, tinkering, and play can be used to reimagine an “otherwise” future for our technology.
The call for artworks will open in the coming weeks.
About the Curator
Komal Lally is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Tkaronto.
Her artistic practice is material focused, valuing experimentation and exploration. Currently, she is interested in working (or fighting) with light materials, like paper and fabric, to create immersive environments. In her curatorial work, she aims to uplift the idea that technology should be for everyone through well-meant nonsense and irony. Encouraging curiosity and creation over credentialism, she wants to make room to play. Lally aims to create ongoing spaces of encounter, dedicated to working with and in service of artists, creating works that feel honest, responsive, and warm.
Lally has a BFA in New Media from Toronto Metropolitan University, where she co-founded and led NEXT (New Media Exhibition Team), her program's first curatorial collective, leading her to oversee her thesis exhibition, METAMORPHOSIS. She founded machines of, an artist collective dedicated to uplifting and creating new media art, with which she organized synthesis, an interactive art installation funded by the Creative School in 2024, and co-curated a group garage show, Residua and Remnants in July of 2025. Most recently, she independently curated i see myself and no one in millions of other systems, a new media group exhibition at Little Robot Friends. Her artwork has shown with the Art Gallery of Ontario's Art Bash and Nuit Blanche Toronto (forthcoming). She is eager to continue bringing a DIY ethos and passion for strange art into every single thing she does.
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.
Photo by Liam Mackenzie.