Image courtesy of Christina Dovolis

InterAccess Spring 2025 Programming

April – June 2025
InterAccess, Toronto ON

Exhibitions

InterAccess flashDRIVE: Digital Arts Fundraiser Exhibition
May 1 – 17, 2025
Opening Party: May 1, 7 – 10pm

Celebrate the opening of InterAccess’s new programming space with a survey exhibition, curated by Miriam Arbus, of Toronto’s current digital arts scene. Support the future of new media arts with an archive poster sale, artist panel, digital arts market, and more.

IA Gateway
May 19 – June 20, 2025

A selection of local new media artists taking part in InterAccess’s no-cost, low-barrier gallery access program. Artists and programs TBA!

Christina Dovolis: Magpie Online
May 21 – 24, 2025

Magpie Online is a docu-installation that explores how virtual worldbuilding reshapes identity and connection, as told by users of Decentraland – an online, multiplayer environment. Presented as part of Doors Open Toronto.

Image of Butterfly (circa 1983) courtesy of Don Lindsay

Events

Collaborative Robot Drawing: Beyond Optimization
Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 2 – 3:30pm
Free, register here

Work together with the Universal Collaborative (UR) robot arm to draw paper illustrations from digital designs.

Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story, Online Exhibition Launch
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 6 – 8pm
The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCT) at University of Toronto
Free, register here

Join curator Shauna Jean Doherty for a conversation on the significance of Telidon on the wider telecommunications sector in Canada followed by a screening of artist interviews.

TerribleHack 2025: AI (Artificial Ignorance)
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 11am – 6pm
Free, register here

Most hackathons are about coming up with innovative new ideas and making plausible startup prototypes. This one is different. This one is about making terrible hacks! Take some time to make your bad ideas a reality. Organized by Creative Code Toronto.

Sensorium Artist-in-Residence Artist Talk, Gala Hernández López
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | 6:30 – 8pm
Free, register here

Gala Hernández López, one of Sensorium’s inaugural Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence, is a filmmaker, artist and researcher, focused on the impact of computational capitalism on subjectivity, often through an ecofeminist and techno-critical lens.

InterAccess flashDRIVE Events
Enjoy a full schedule of fundraising events showcasing local digital artists. More details and registration TBA.

• flashDRIVE Opening Party
  Thursday, May 1, 2025 | 7 – 10pm
• Digital Collecting Practices Panel
  Date TBA
• Spring Open HDMI, presented with Venus Fest
  Friday, May 16, 2025 | 7 – 10pm

The InterAccess Time-knot: Should We Let Media Die?, Kit Haehnel
Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 2 – 3:30pm
Free, register here

Join InterAccess’s resident archivist, Kit Haehnel, as she shares discoveries from her time with the InterAccess archive and argues for the ephemerality of media. Followed by an archive remix party.

Sensorium Artist-in-Residence Artist Talk, Ar Ducao
Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 3:30 – 5pm
Free, register here

Ar Ducao, one of Sensorium’s inaugural Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence, is an artist, creative engineer, educator, and organizer, working to develop materials to help marginalized learners feel well-resourced in pursuing their creative ideas.

Summer LGBTQ+ Mixer, Alison Clark
Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 6 – 9pm
Free, register here

This seasonal gathering offers a welcoming space for LGBTQ+ community members to mingle, discuss your latest projects, and spark potential collaborations.

Open Studio
Most Wednesdays | 6 – 9pm
Free, no registration required

On Wednesday nights, the InterAccess studio is open to the public, offering casual co-working, thematic meetups and occasional events. See the full list of upcoming sessions on the Studio website.

Image courtesy of Hand Eye Society

Workshops

Rescheduled – Eurorack Synthesis with VCV Rack 2, Tosca Terán
Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 12 – 4pm
$30 for members, $50 for non-members, register here

This hands-on workshop introduces electronic sound creation using VCV Rack 2, a Eurorack simulator.

Tool Training: 3D Printing (FDM), Andre Markovic
Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 11am – 2pm
Free for members, $25 for non-members, register here

Learn how to safely operate the FDM 3D printers in the InterAccess studio.

Sustainable Practices: Linux Petting Zoo, Terry Anastasiadis & Shaughn Martel
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 6 – 9pm
Free, register here

Get to know the open-source operating system Linux and how it can help combat forced obsolescence.

Sustainable Practices: Carefully Hacking, Fixing, Repurposing Electronics: An Exploratory Session, Ar Ducao
Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 12 – 3pm
Free, register here

Learn about what’s inside your electronics, and how to carefully take them apart for hacking, repair, or reuse.

Alternative Arcade: Hardware for Accessible Play, Brendan Lehman (Hand Eye Society)
Sunday, June 15, 2025 | 1 – 4pm
Free, registration TBA

Deconstruct Hand Eye Society’s Torontron arcade cabinets and learn how to incorporate classic and custom arcade controllers into digital games, with a disability justice lens by Game Art Residency curator Bracy Appeikumoh. Presented with Hand Eye Society as part of the Vector Festival 2025 Game Art Residency.

Opportunities

Vector Festival 2025: Call for Submissions
Deadline: April 7, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
Application forms and details at vectorfestival.org

Vector Festival 2025, 404_not_found, embraces the broken hyperlink, the loading screen, and the sharks biting undersea fiber-optic cables. Applications open for the flagship exhibition curated by Dallas Fellini, Game Art Residency curated by Bracy Appeikumoh, AR multi-site exhibition, workshops, performances, and more.

Founded in 1983, InterAccess is a non-profit gallery, educational facility, production studio, festival, and registered charity dedicated to emerging practices in art and technology. Our programs support art forms that integrate technology, fostering and supporting the full cycle of art and artistic practice through education, production, and exhibition. InterAccess is regarded as a preeminent Canadian arts and technology centre.

32 Lisgar Street, Units 4 & 5
Toronto, ON M6J 0C7
interaccess.org
For programming inquiries, contact: art@interaccess.org
For education and studio inquiries, contact education@interaccess.org

Hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm

Accessibility
We are located on the second floor of the building, accessible by two flights of stairs or an elevator. The front entrance has an automatic push door and is accessible by ramp or a short flight of stairs. Inside, all InterAccess facilities are on the same level, including a single-user accessible washroom.