Workshops

Explore powerful tools for real-time collaboration across distance. Through hands-on networking experiments, learn how to connect your device and creative software directly to other artists.

An exploration of new biodegradable materials that transform everyday discards into 3D printable pastes.

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the milling machine and lathe available in the InterAccess studio.

Create visuals that respond to audio in real time, for interactive art and live performance, in hydra—a free browser-based video synth and live coding environment.

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the electronics available in the InterAccess studio.

Learn the basics of face tracking, feedback loops, and mechanical actuation using MediaPipe and Arduino to build a mini sculpture that turns to follow you.

Learn to design small, zine-like games that can be shared with others, develop an appreciation for the indie "art tool" scene, and learn to embrace happy accidents in the game-making process

Learn how to create generative visuals using TouchDesigner!

Over two days, workshop participants will learn how to create an AR experience that will then be featured at the Vector and Big On Bloor Festival

Learn the basics of how you can incorporate biology into your practice. We'll be looking into organism design, prototyping, and more!

An Introduction to developing interactive augmented realty filters in Spark AR

Learn the basics of FDM and MSLA 3D printing and processing.

Buttons and buzzers, microphones and motors: connect some common (and some uncommon!) inputs and outputs to interact in the real world ✨

Learn how to transform physical objects into digital replicas!

Learn the ins and outs of Blockchain Technology and NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens).

Join Casey Koyczan for a virtual reality workshop as he takes participants through the basics of creating in Tilt Brush.

Using a tarot-inspired format to map your own journey to tech tools that match your values, and to strategize your next steps as an individual or as a group.

Discuss and learn how to create and share your own contra-normative AR cosmetics look in an approachable hands-on workshop.

Explore various ways of sending data between Ableton Live and TouchDesigner with Karl Skene! The techniques learned can be used for live performance, music videos, and interactive a/v installations.

Quickly and easily build your own DJ edits and remixes using Serato Studio, a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) developed for DJs.

Take a crash course in Ableton with Toronto-based producer, DJ, pianist, and radio host Ciel!

Find out all the different ways you can utilize and design performance work for online spaces, including Zoom, Instagram Live, and YouTube!

Learn to share your message through the interconnected mediums of radio, live streaming and podcasting in this Audacity-based workshop with DJ, curator and radio host Roshanie!

Part feminist theory, part artist talk, and part technical workshop—this session with Cat Haines explores how we can use Minecraft resource packs to transform our social and material realities to create new bodily possibilities.

Taking seriously the idea of server as “place”, Ender Gallery curators Cat Bluemke, Jonathan Carroll, and Sarah Friend tour the expansive procedurally generated world of Minecraft, moving from the digital, front-end biomes to the backend of the Minecraft server.

Learn the basics of how a facial recognition system works by using Python in Google Colaboratory! Discussions will consider digital surveillance and biometric data, as well as what might constitute a toolkit for public awareness and citizen resistance to facial recognition technologies.