Born digital | exhibition @interaccess | july 12TH – august 18TH 2018 | free
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Adam Basanta is a Montreal-based artist, composer, and performer of experimental music. His works have been exhibited in galleries and institutions including Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH), National Art Centre Tokyo (JPN), American Medium Gallery (NYC), Carroll/Fletcher Gallery (UK), New Media Gallery (CAN), V Moscow Biennale for Young Art (RUS), Galerie Charlotte (FRA), and the Edith-Russ-Haus fur Mediakunst (GER). He has been awarded several prestigious international prizes, and in 2018 was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award. He is represented by Ellephant Gallery (Montreal, CAN).
A.M. Darke is an artist, game designer, and activist. The foundation of her practice is maximizing agency for marginalized bodies, while disrupting systems of oppression.
Joseph DeLappe is a Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown extensive throughout the world. DeLappe works at the intersection of art, technology, social engagement/activism and interventionist strategies exploring our geo-political contexts.
Judith Doyle is a filmmaker, writer and new media producer active in artists’ teleculture from its earliest pre-Internet forms to the contemporary situation, where offline and online identities blur and merge. Her practice engages the more than human world, with collaborators from communities outside the tech development mainstream. A Professor in Integrated Media and Graduate Studies at OCADU, Doyle co-directs the Social Media and Collaboration Lab (SMAClab) with Dr. David McIntosh, producing curatorial, interactive and mixed reality projects.
Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist who examines the influence of technology on popular culture and gender. Her immersive research has included becoming a YouTube “cewebrity” with over two million video views and an appearance as a contestant on Frank the Entertainer…In a Basement Affair on Vh1. She was awarded a Rhizome commission for her two person play Playground which debuted at the New Museum and was premiered by South London Gallery at Goldsmiths College. Recent solo shows include MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the New Museum’s online project space First Look. She is a 2017 Rema HortMann Emerging Artist Grantee.
Chris Kerich is a programmer, artist, and PhD student studying at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His main research interest is the exploration of embedded values and the discovery of resistant areas in software through the use of glitch, error, and other non-dominant methods of interaction. His artistic practice focuses on much of the same, with a special focus on video games.
Born and based in Shanghai, Lu Yang graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2010. Lu Yang using a variety of media: video, installation, animation, and digital painting, game, the artist unflinchingly explores existential issues about the nature of life and where it resides. Armed with a overlaying mix of strategies taken from Science, Religion, Psychology, Neuroscience, Medicine, Games, Pop Culture and Music, among others, Lu Yang overrides the often delusional belief that humans control are privileged within this universe. Instead, she highlights the biological and material determinants of our condition reminding us of our transient and fragile existence, but with an edge of dark humour that leaves no room for sentimentality. Lu Yang’s works have been featured in important solo and group exhibitions at the UCCA (Beijing), Mwoods museum (Beijing), Centre Pompidou (Paris), 56th Venice Biennale 2015 China Pavillion, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, Liverpool Biennial 2016, Shanghai Biennale 2012, Montreal International Digital Art Biennial 2016, Musée d’art contemporain of Lyon, Momentum (Berlin), Tampa Museum of Art, and The 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale.
Way OFFSITE: THE OBJECT OF INTERNET | EXHIBITION @ELEKTRA Montréal | JUne 29TH – August 5TH 2018 | FREE
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project eva is an art collective that was founded in 2003 out of a shared objective of creating critical, experimental and transgressive artworks in the new media sphere. The scope of the collective’s artistic activities spans robotics, electronics, video and audio. Projects are connected by the themes of loss and restriction and focus on problematics related to relationships among individuals, computer systems and their physical extensions. Projet EVA’s productions have been presented in Asia, Europe, South and North America and the Middle East.
SIMON LAROCHE is an artist and interaction designer. He teaches Electronic Arts at Concordia University and collaborates on theatre, fashion design, dance and cinema productions.
ETIENNE GRENIER is an artist working in the field of digital culture. He has taught audiovisual interaction design for many years at Université du Québec à Montréal. He has collaborated as a designer with architecture and advertisement firms, dance and theatre companies and video producers.
Local Host 2018: Sub/Hyper/Text | ONLINE EXHIBITION INTERACCESS.ORG | JULY 12TH – 18TH 2018 | FREE
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Sarah Friend is an artist and software engineer working at a large blockchain development studio. When not doing that, she creates games and other interactive experiences. Her practice explores the polar concerns of privacy and transparency and the political/environmental implications of technology. She is a proud Recurse Center alum, and has recently presented at the Montreal International Games Showcase, the MoneyLab program by the Institute for Networked Culture in London, and Transmediale Berlin.
Soo Jin Rho lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. She studied visual communication design and digital media in South Korea and the US. She is interested in diverse variation of interactive narrative. She has dealt with conflict and spirituality in her works.
Sound sculptor and media artist Timo Kahlen chooses to work with the ephemeral: with wind and steam, with light and shade, with pixels and dust, with sound, noise and vibration. Kahlen has been nominated for the German National Sound Art Prize (2006), the Kahnweiler Prize for Sculpture (2001) and for the Prize for Young European Photographers (1989) and has received critical recognition at more than 180 exhibitions of contemporary media art since the mid-1980s. Kahlen currently works and teaches in Berlin.
www.timo-kahlen.de
Dina Kelberman’s work comes from a tendency to meticulously collect and organize the media of everyday life. Kelberman has been commissioned by the New Museum and The Marina Abramovic Institute and included in numerous international biennials. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Art21 and NPR, Known and Strange Things (Cole, 2016) and Wasting Time on the Internet (Goldsmith, 2016). Recently she presented at the UbuWeb Conference in Athens and the P3 Biennial in London.
Amanda Low is a recent OCADU graduate who plays with medium specific narratives and storytelling through both traditional and non-traditionally animated means. Her practice currently deals with web art and the browser as a medium.
ECSTASY // NORMAL 002 | INSTALLATION @THE BRANDSCAPE | JULY 12TH – 16TH 2018 | FREE
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TOBIAS WILLIAMS is a Toronto based artist and educator. His art practice is concerned with the relationship between society and technology. His latest work explores the concept of “Digital Ontology;” how we conceive of objects in digital spaces and how these digital objects interact with our perception of the physical world. Tobias has exhibited in a variety of local and international gallery spaces including recent shows at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Banff Centre in Alberta. He currently works as an instructor at OCADU Humber College and the Toronto School of Art.
INNER WORKINGS | PERFORMANCE @918 BATHURST | JULY 13TH 2018 | 9PM – 11PM | $15
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ADAM BASANTA is a Montreal-based artist, composer, and performer of experimental music. His works have been exhibited in galleries and institutions including Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH), National Art Centre Tokyo (JPN), American Medium Gallery (NYC), Carroll/Fletcher Gallery (UK), New Media Gallery (CAN), V Moscow Biennale for Young Art (RUS), Galerie Charlotte (FRA), and the Edith-Russ-Haus fur Mediakunst (GER). He has been awarded several prestigious international prizes, and in 2018 was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award. He is represented by Ellephant Gallery (Montreal, CAN).
AFAQ AHMED KARADIA is a Designer, audiovisual artist and music researcher. He is interested in exploring intersection between art and technology. He now forge a new path that transitions His creative coding skills towards developing installations and interactive Arts projects. His current practice evolved around audiovisual art and music technology.
ADAM TINDALE is an electronic drummer and digital instrument designer. He is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Digital Futures Initiative at OCAD University. Tindale performs on his E-Drumset: a new electronic instrument that utilizes physical modeling and machine learning with an intuitive physical interface. He completed a Bachelor of Music at Queen’s University, a Masters of Music Technology at McGill University, and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Music, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Victoria.
micha cárdenas, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Art & Design: Games + Playable Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. cárdenas is writing a new algorithm for gender, race and technology. Her book in progress, Poetic Operations, proposes algorithmic analysis to extend intersectional analysis and develop a trans of color poetics to reduce violence against trans women of color. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. Her artwork has been described as “a seminal milestone for artistic engagement in VR” by the Spike art journal in Berlin. She is a first generation Colombian American.
WORDS BEFORE ALL ELSE: ORAL HISTORIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE | SCREEN-ING @JACKMAN HALL | ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO | JULY 14TH 2018 | 7PM – 9PM | FREE
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Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change. Her pioneering new media projects include the online gallery/chat-space and mixed-reality event, CyberPowWow (1997-2004); a paper doll/time-travel journal, Imagining Indians in the 25th Century (2001); and TimeTraveller™ (2008-2013), a multi-platform project featuring nine machinima episodes. Born in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, Skawennati holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she is based. She is co-director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research network of artists, academics, and technologists investigating, creating, and critiquing Indigenous virtual environments.
Ojibway filmmakers Adam and Zack Khalil were raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and currently make their home in New York. Adam Khalil’s practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humour, relation, and transgression. Zack Khalil’s work often explores an indigenous worldview and undermines traditional forms of historical authority through the excavation of alternative histories and the use of innovative documentary forms.
Mary Kunuk lives and works in Igloolik, Nunavut. A member of the Inuit collective Arnait Video Production (Women’s video workshop), founded in Igloolik in 1991, she has been making videos since 1993. A number of her works are the result of a collaborative process with her community, her family, or other video artists, including Marie-Hélène Cousineau.
Zacharias Kunuk is a renowned filmmaker whose dramatic feature films include Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2001, and The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, codirected with Norman Cohn, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Kunuk is the winner of a National Arts Award, the National Aboriginal Achievement Award and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005. Earlier this year, Atanarjuat was voted the Best Canadian Film of all times by Toronto International Film Festival survey.
Elizabeth LaPensée, Ph.D., is an award-winning designer, writer, artist, and researcher who creates and studies Indigenous-led media such as games and comics. She is Anishinaabe from Baawaating with relations at Bay Mills Indian Community, Métis named for Elizabeth Morris, and settler-Irish. She is an Assistant Professor of Media & Information and Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures at Michigan State University.
Trevino L. Brings Plenty is a poet and musician who lives, works, and writes in Portland, OR. He is singer/songwriter/guitarist for the musical ensemble Ballads of Larry Drake. Trevino is an American and Native American; a Lakota Indian born on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, USA. Some of his work explores the American Indian identity in American culture and how it has through genealogical history affected indigenous peoples in the 21st century. He writes of urban Indian life; it’s his subject.
Jackson Polys is a visual artist who seeks to dissolve artificial boundaries between perceptions of traditional Native art forms, practices, and contemporary life, and whose practice reflects an inquiry into the limits and viability of desires for indigenous growth.
Doug Smarch Jr., a member of the Tlingit Nation from Teslin, is a conceptual artist working in sculpture and animation. Smarch attended San Francisco Arts Institute and earned a BFA. He then went on to earn a Graduate Degree in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Intro to Reality Capture for Virtual Places @InterACCESS | JULY 15TH 2018 | 11AM – 4PM | $80 Regular, $60 with Studio Access/Workshop Discount Pass
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Hector Centeno is a digital media artist and interactive systems
designer and developer, working independently and collaboratively. His focus is on immersive sound, visuals and interactivity that seeks to engage the audience into a self-reflection of existence, place and reality. He currently teaches at the Digital Futures program at OCAD University, and works as Technology Director at Impossible Things, creating augmented reality experiences.
ART ON THE SCREENS | SCREENING @CELEBRATION SQUARE MISSISSAUGA | JULY 16TH 2018 | 8PM – 10PM | FREE
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David Blandy is an artist who works with the moving image in the digital world, from YouTube tutorials, music videos, television series, anime and the narrative sections of computer games; highlighting our relationship with popular culture and investigating what makes us who we are. Blandy has exhibited at venues nationally and worldwide such as Tate Modern, London, UK; Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan; Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; The Baltic, Gateshead; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Spike Island, Bristol; Random Acts on Channel Four; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany; MoMA PS1, New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. He co-wrote the graphic novel Out of Nothing, published by Nobrow Press. He is represented by Seventeen Gallery and his films are distributed by LUX.
Originally from Vancouver Island, Clive Holden is a Toronto based artist. His work focuses on the 21st century moving image as visual art. Exhibitions and screenings include: transmediale; Art Gallery of Mississauga; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Anthology Film Archives; London Film Festival; Danish Film Institute; European Media Art Festival; and Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México.
Susanna Flock lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She has completed diplomas at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz. Flock has won several prizes including the Henkel Art Award (2010), the Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Visual Arts (2011), The Crossing Europe Innovative Award (2017). She has completed artist residencies in Croatia, Norway, Poland and Germany. Her works have recently been shown in solo exhibitions at EKA Galerii Tallinn, Neue Galerie Graz, and HDLU Zagreb.
Nadine Lessio is a designer and technologist based out of Toronto, Canada. She has a background in visual design, programming, and an interest in how technology makes its home in the world. Nadine holds an MDes from OCADU’s Digital Futures program where she spent her time investigating the Internet of Things through personal assistants. By mixing development, humour, and criticism, Nadine’s work considers the interplay between technology and life, sometimes with amusing or unexpected results.