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Something Toronto members might want to know?

Laura Paolini — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:01:03 +0000

Apparently it’s true….

Click here to view the embedded video.

See what the critics have said about Kunstkammer / Wunderkammer

Laura Paolini — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:26:01 +0000

Even RM Vaughan had something clever to say!

See his review here!

And David Balzer also likes to use the word clever!

See his review here!

And obviously, see the show for yourself at InterAccess! Until August 28th!

Doing it For the Lulz: Friday August 6

Laura Paolini — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:46:55 +0000

Hi Everyone

Our neighbourinos are having a great talk on Friday August 6, from 7pm-8:30pm. Jeremy Bailey said on the event’s wall “This night is going to be the biggest technical challenge of my life”
But I bet this event will be more challenging for yur mindz…read on!!

A series of presentations about making things on and for the internet.

The internet is bigger than ever. With consumption and production pushed into such close proximity, XPACE has asked Jeremy Bailey, ginger coons, and Jon Rafman to talk about the problems and possibilities of the internet.

More information at:
…
http://xpace.info/events_archive/doing-it-for-the-lulz

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103757709678723

You can also contact this guy for more information:
Matthew Williamson
Programmer
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave
416.849.2864
www.xpace.info

Bring your beepers, bloopers, and squawkers!

Rob Cruickshank — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:45:34 +0000

It’s handmade music night in the studio, Monday the 21st. 7 til 10. Be there or be a square wave.

Why watch soccer?

Rob Cruickshank — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:29:21 +0000

So you can test your anti-vuvuzela filter!

Create Digital Music has a tutorial here.

And there’s a VST plug in here.

Of course, if you like the sound, try this.

If you have a vuvuzela, bring it to open studio tomorrow!

(Image by Flickr user Andrewthecook used under Creative Commons license.

Dorkbot June: Instant Coffee + Sarah Beck!

Alex Snukal — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:07:25 +0000

Date: Monday, June 7, 2010

Time: 7PM

Down in the studio at InterAccess

Informal lecture series featuring “people doing strange things with electricity”

Dorkbot-Toronto seeks to explore all uses of technology in the development and discussion of art and creative exercise. This can involve practices ranging from virtual and interactive art to video and audio landscapes. Dorkbot-Toronto is meant to be an informal and collaborative environment where anyone can drop in, listen to presentations, and meet people for future collaborations. We try to bring together people from diverse backgrounds to explore ideas of hybridization and interdisciplinary projects, as well as perform open investigations into electronics and code.

This Edition of Dorkbot features Instant Coffee and Sarah Beck

Both the collective Instant Coffee and artist Sarah Beck have worked with ideas of investigating social/institutional/domestic and commercial spheres.

About the artists/collective

Sarah Beck received her BFA in Photography from Ryerson, subsequently working as an electrician in Toronto’s film industry. She won the Joseph S. Stauffer prize in 2004 awarded to ‘encourage young Canadians of outstanding promise or potential’ from the Canada Council for the Arts.Sarah spent 2008 as artist in residence at a high school for troubled youth, working intensively to encourage them to raise their voices in the community. She uses her art practice to act as a social barometer and cultural activist. September 2009 Sarah represented Canada at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Beirut, bringing home a silver medal in sculpture. Sarah was an artist in residence at the Cultural Olympiad during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, and is finishing her MFA at the Ontario College of Art. Learn more at: http://shopode.com/.

Instant Coffee is a service oriented artist collective based in Toronto and Vancouver. Through formal installations and event-based activities, it builds a public place to practice, where ideas, materials and actions can be explored outside of the isolated studio and in a manner that renegotiates traditional exhibition structures, but is still supported by them. Instant Coffee’s frequent practice is to build architectural installations, which become venues for a series of organized events from formal lectures and screenings to informal gatherings and workshops.

Instant Coffee’s most consistent members are Cecilia Berkovic, Jinhan Ko, Kelly Lycan, Jenifer Papararo, Kate Monro, and Khan Lee. Learn more at: http://www.instantcoffee.org/home.html.

Images + facebook event at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130331790315152.

For more info: www.interaccess.org

STUFF NOT TO BE MISSED

Alex Snukal — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:47:28 +0000

OPEN STUDIO ‹ EVERY Wednesday EVENING

Come and hang out while working on your weird and wonderful project!

Open Studios are now every week, Wednesdays starting at 7pm. It’s the perfect chance for members and non-members alike to get together and see
what’s happening in the studio. Bring your projects to work on and to share, give advice or get it, or just nerd out.

It’s happening in two hours!!!

HAND MADE MUSIC WORKING GROUP

Based on the amazing response to the Hand Made Music Night, we’ve started the Hand Made Music Working Group. The group meets the third Monday of every month to work on, show, and help each other with hand made electronic musical instruments.

Run by Stephen McLeod and Andrew Lovett-Barron, the Hand Made Music Working Group is an informal gathering open to anyone interested in making their own electronic instruments.

The next meeting is on June 21rst, 7PM.

MISSING DREMEL IN THE STUDIO

Alex Snukal — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:44:07 +0000

The dremel is missing from the studio. Please return it if you have it, no questions asked.

A reminder: tools cannot and should not be removed from the studio. The studio is a shared space that depends on trust and community. Please keep your fellow members in mind when using the studio equipment or removing it (which you shouldn’t!) from the studio.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

Alex Snukal — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:42:57 +0000

ON THE RUN/A CAVALE
Frederic Lavoie
June 18 – July 17th, 2010
Opening Reception: June 18, 7PM

InterAccess is excited to present On the Run/a Cavale an exhibition and residency with Montreal-based artist, Frederic Lavoie. On the Run is a site-specific, multi-media installation that Lavoie has create in response to the gallery space. Check the IA website soon for more information.

For information on the artist, please go to: http://www.fredericlavoie.net/.

THE TORONTRON
Come play 6 indie video games in the stairwell of IA!
June 2010
Free and Open to the Public

The TORONTRON is a 1982 arcade cabinet that’s been retrofitted to play six great games by local Toronto indies. For the month of June, the TORONTRON will be available for the public to play at InterAccess. It can be found outside of the studio in the front stairwell.

TORONTRON coincides with the 6-week workshop InterAccess will be running called The Artsy Games Incubator and is produced by workshop instructor Jim Munroe. Two of the games featured on the TORONTRON were developed through the Artsy Games Incubator. For more info on the TORONTRON, please go to: http://handeyesociety.com/torontron/.

CURRENT EXHIBITION – SUBTLE TECHNOLOGIES

Alex Snukal — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:38:41 +0000

CONTINGENT ECOLOGIES :: INVESTIGATIONS AT THE EDGE

Presented as a partnership between InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Year Zero One and Subtle Technologies

May 22 to June 12, 2010
Subtle Technologies Festival dates: June 4-6, 2010
Opening Reception: June 4, 2010 at 7PM

Curated by Camille Turner and Michael Alstad.

Each year Subtle Technologies presents an international festival bringing scientists, artists and designers together to share ideas, science and artworks around a theme. This year’s focus is on sustainability.

The most innovative, unconventional thinking and solutions often come from the periphery – beyond established structures and norms. contingent ecologies :: investigations at the edge present concepts, ideas and projects by architects, designers, artists and community activists from multiple view points coming together to explore and respond to a complexity of environmental and social issues.

For more information, please go to: http://interaccess.org/exhibitions/index.php