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We’re so ready to *spring* into our new season! 🛼🧚‍♀️🍄💝 Join us for best and brightest of Toronto’s digital arts scene in flashDRIVE, the bright flash of LEDs in our Intro to Electronics for Artists workshop, and your bright future ahead with this year’s open calls (Vector Festival closing soon on the 30th!) Find the full season on our website.

Open Call: InterAccess is seeking proposals for our Community Mixers! DEADLINE: June 1, 2026 📆 Form link in bio. 🔗 About Community Mixers at InterAccess: This seasonal gathering supports the growth and visibility of a new media landscape in Toronto, representative of the wide range of artists and lived experiences that contribute to it. It specifically offers a welcoming space for equity-deserving community members to connect, mingle, discuss recent projects, and spark potential collaborations. Ideal proposals: ✔️Will focus on sharing new media or electronic art ✔️Make use of the facilities, tools, and equipment available to InterAccess ✔️Compliment programming offered by InterAccess ✔️Will directly engage with equity-deserving communities and increase access to new media in an low-barrier environment Questions? Email [email protected]

Strap on your cyborg hats! We have a shiny line-up of events and workshops coming your way, all to celebrate this year's AR Residency, exploring machines as if they were created in our own image. Vector Festival AR Residency Keynote, hosted by Botao ‘Amber’ Hu May 27, 3:30-5PM @ InterAccess or Online Through a Social Computing lens, Hu explores the "Cyborg Society", the study of societies transformed by human augmentation through Crypto, XR, AI, and other technologies. Play in Taiji: Making and Playing Daoist Cosmos Cyborgs, hosted by Haoran Chang May 27, 6–8PM @ InterAccess Learn Zhan Zhuang (standing meditation), engage in body-mapping exercises, and design and play meditative games. 3D Scanning: Creating Assets for Storytelling & Community, hosted by Sari-Sari Xchange June 26, 2–4PM @ InterAccess A spotlight on the Sari-Sari Xchange Assetory, a storytelling-led virtual asset library prototype created with and for the Asian diaspora. All registration links can be found on our website or in the 🔗 in bio. Programming presented with Sari-Sari Xchange in support of Vector Festival's AR Residency, curated by Evangeline Y Brooks and Christina Dovolis. The residency is possible with the support of the City of Toronto Community Celebration Support Fund.

A warm welcome to our 2026 IA Gateway artists! The IA Gateway program facilitates low-barrier, no-cost access to gallery space for new media artists within our community. Gateway is an entry point; the term refers to network gateways, telecommunication devices that allow for the flow and translation of data between separate networks, an apt metaphor for the responsibility of organizations to provide resources and support to the artists in their community. Public Projects Public projects provide artists with access to a professional gallery space for gallery installations or participatory artworks. 🟡 Jerry Wang & Yufeng Zhao, presenting TypeMap: Bikelane Toronto 🟡🟡 May 27 – 29 | Opening reception: May 27, 6 – 8PM 🟡 Eden Schwinghamer, presenting Hello World 🟡🟡 June 3 – 5 | Opening reception: June 5, 6 – 8PM 🟡 Tristan Sauer presenting Affective Computing 🟡🟡 June 13 | Presented as part of Toronto Games Week 🟡 Christina Dovolis, Amelia June Ferguson, Asucena Di Giovanni, & Lauren Warrington, presenting The Fragility Between Worlds 🟡🟡 June 17 – 19 | Opening reception: June 17, 6 – 8PM Private Projects Private projects provide artists with access to a professional gallery space for prototyping, development, or documentation. These projects are not open to the public. 🟡 Eden Schwinghamer, with Mind Mirror 🟡 Unnikrishnan Kalidas, with 144: A Study in Spatial Polyrhythm 🟡 Cheldon Paterson & Vanese Smith, with WifiHifiScifi: 93.33 FM - Future Transmissions 🟡 Good Grief (Dylan Carter, Zoe Magirias, Payton Oswald, & Brianna Wheeler), with Waterbed

In collaboration with @interaccessto AVANT MUTEK will host the artist Marko Cindric presenting FIAT. Fiat Godot game engine, live microphone In this interactive audiovisual installation, participants are invited to make sounds into a microphone, the peaks and valleys of their waveforms shaping islands emerging from a projected virtual ocean. A lone seagull soars over the scene, shifting its path to the contours of the new terrain, reminding us that the worlds we create are not uninhabited, but shared among a rich web of kin both human and more-than. Marko Cindric is a new media artist and researcher interested in the overlooked presuppositions and ideological residues that inadvertently shape discussions on the climate crisis. Throughout his research, he grapples with a central tension: can our digital technologies be emancipated from the ecocidal military-industrial paradigm from which they emerge? Cindric wields human-made systems as his materials in the interest of redirecting attention to, and rebuilding kinship with, the natural and living ones that inspired their invention. As such, relationality, impact, and emergence are recurring motifs within his practice. Unfolding across two rooms within @mooi.studios ’s intimate warehouse space in Toronto, the event features a carefully curated lineup of artists and aesthetics that embody MUTEK’s exploratory spirit. Design: @seysaan Thanks to @aroundtorontooo for edits

𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘅 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 - 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 ✨ We are excited to have @interaccessto join us as an Ecosystem Partner for our @torontotechweek event "When Worlds Converge: Art, AI & the Future of Human-Centered Innovation", featuring @krista.kim . A longstanding force in new media and emerging practices, InterAccess’s mission is to expand the cultural significance of art and technology by fostering and supporting the full cycle of art and artistic practice through education, production, and exhibition. InterAccess, Pursuits Inc., and Krista Kim are united by a shared belief that emerging technologies should function not only as tools of innovation, but as mediums for human connection, cultural exchange, and expanded artistic experience. Founded in 1983 as Toronto Community-Videotex, InterAccess is a gallery, educational facility, production studio, festival, and registered charity dedicated to new media and emerging practices in art and technology. Guests attending the event will also have the opportunity to meet InterAccess at their on-site activation table, where they will showcase selected projects and share more about their work in digital and emerging media. Come explore InterAccess’ latest digital screen- a homemade display designed by Studio Coordinator Alison that allows collectors to showcase digital artworks anywhere and will be available for purchase. Full event details: /6zzd1jlt 📍 Demo Room, 307 Lakeshore Blvd E, Toronto 🗓 May 26, 2026 #TorontoTechWeek #KristaKim #InterAccess #NewMediaArt #DigitalArt #HeartSpace #ArtAndTech #AI #DigitalTrust #HumanCenteredInnovation #TorontoEvents

There’s still a few spots left for Synthetic Worlds workshop happening next weekend at @interaccessto ! Deep dive into generative AI conceptually, ethically, and technically! Link in bio for more information & to sign up! #genai #newmedia #touchdesigner #comfyui #stablediffusion

IA Current 2026 + Media Arts Prize 2026 Deadline: May 11, 2026 We can't wait to see your submissions for our upcoming emerging curator and solo exhibition opportunities, both deadlines quickly approaching! About IA Current The InterAccess 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, 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. About Media Arts Prize Since 1990, the InterAccess Media Arts Prize has been granted annually to a graduating student whose work exhibits excellence and innovation in new media practice. Nominations are adjudicated by InterAccess's Programming Committee, who select a prize winner to be awarded a solo exhibition opportunity, a complimentary one-year studio membership, and professional development and mentorship. Finalists receive a complimentary one-year InterAccess studio membership and an opportunity for a public artist program. Find more details on our website (interaccess.org/submissions) Image: to name language (in the hard place), Media Arts Prize performance by Jasmine Liaw, 2025 finalist of the InterAccess Media Arts Prize, courtesy of Liam Mackenzie.

Interested in making a cyberdeck? Sign up for a new member-led Cyberdeck Club starting May 13th, and join others in making a cyberdeck from ideation to completion. Hosted by InterAccess. No experience is required! Sign up via the link in our bio!

Wired In: VF Gamemaking Residency Keynote May 21, 6:30-8PM Hybrid, registration in bio Led by Casper Sutton-Fosman How does technology reconcile with the conflict between planned obsolescence and the quest for immortality? What does your body feel like in the times of Bryan Johnson’s “bio-measurements” and Neuralink Corp? Moving through media analysis, curatorial research, and creative nonfiction, the keynote explores the fantasies and realities of the modular cyborg body, a politics of disposability, the necropolitics of labour, and the role of digital technologies in the production of selfhood. This event is hosted in support of the Vector Festival Gamemaking Residency and is open to all. The keynote speaker will join the event remotely over Zoom. In true cyborg spirit, participants are invited to join online or at an in-person watch party at InterAccess. About the Speaker 🦾 Casper Sutton-Fosman is a curator, artist, and academic based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their work centres conceptions of identity through a trans and disabled lens, questioning the fraught meanings of representation and exposure. Tracing pathways of labour, medicalization, and desire, Casper’s research foregrounds materiality and community. About the Curator 🦾 Bracy Appeikumoh is a scholar archivist artist whose work centers reimagining desire and pleasure wholly divested from the diktats of empire and all of its baggage. Her erotic fiction takes place in queer futures embodying queer pre-colonial pasts; her non-fiction ponders how we get here. She is burdened by the urgent need to restore, preserve, and disseminate indigenous ways of being and knowing. About the Gamemaking Residency 🦾 'Where are your guts?' is a video game residency supporting the development of conceptual games, ending in a public showcase opportunity at Vector Festival. With technical and curatorial support, gamemakers in residence explore technologies pushed to the forefront of dystopian imaginings and the warnings against them, asking how we could create symbiotic systems for the good of our bodies, our ecosystems, and our self-actualizations.

Ghost in the Shell (1995) Screening Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM Tickets 🔗 in bio Kicking off the 2026 Vector Festival Gamemaking Residency, you’re invited to a screening of Ghost in the Shell (1995), hosted by Gamemaking Residency curator, Bracy Appeikumoh. About the Movie 🦾 In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as ‘The Puppetmaster’ begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster. About the Curator 🦾 Bracy Appeikumoh is a scholar archivist artist whose work centers reimagining desire and pleasure wholly divested from the diktats of empire and all of its baggage. Her erotic fiction takes place in queer futures embodying queer pre-colonial pasts; her non-fiction ponders how we get here. She is burdened by the urgent need to restore, preserve, and disseminate indigenous ways of being and knowing. About the Gamemaking Residency 🦾 'Where are your guts?' is a video game residency supporting the development of conceptual games, ending in a public showcase opportunity at Vector Festival. With technical and curatorial support, gamemakers in residence explore technologies pushed to the forefront of dystopian imaginings and the warnings against them, asking how we could create symbiotic systems for the good of our bodies, our ecosystems, and our self-actualizations.

flashDRIVE has been extended! 🦑 We feel so lucky to be steeped in Toronto's new media talent, and we're excited to keep it going for another week. Window shop all available artworks online on NOXTE, join us tomorrow for Open HDMI x Open MIXER at 7PM, and check out the exhibition in person from Tues-Sat until May 9. About flashDRIVE 2026: Digital Arts Fundraiser Exhibition Celebrate the living, breathing, working digital arts community with a survey exhibition of Toronto’s local digital artists, curated by Miriam Arbus of Sky Fine Foods. All artworks are for sale and are yours to take home on a USB or display screen. All profits are split between artists and InterAccess. All funds raised will go back into InterAccess's artist-led programming including workshops, exhibitions, and studio community activities. Online marketplace 🔗 in bio: www.noxte.app/exhibition/flashdrive-2026 Photo courtesy of Liam Mackenzie.