interaccess: call for submissions

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Open call for electronic media art: InterAccess Emerging Artist Exhibition 2009


InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre is now accepting submissions for the 9th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition!

This exhibition showcases electronic and new media art works by up-and-coming local and national future stars. We are accepting submissions from post-secondary upper-year students or recent graduates in Ontario and Canada. Curated by our 2009 curatorial intern, this exhibition provides the most competitive emerging artists with professional experience and publicity.

Each year, InterAccess invites a stellar emerging curator to take the reigns and create this important exhibition, which has received rave press from the Toronto Star, The National Post and The Globe and Mail. This year’s selected curatorial intern is Jennifer Chan, an interdisciplinary artist and specialist in Visual Culture & Communication at University of Toronto Misssissauga/Sheridan College Art & Art History program. She is a recipient of the 2008 Mississauga Arts Awards for Emerging Talent in Visual Arts and was previously a research intern at V tape video resource center. We proudly welcome Jennifer to our team and look forward to her work on this exhibition.

We are looking for submissions of electronic new media work that explores the aesthetics, determinance, (sub)cultures and history of digital media in relation to other creative media such as sculpture, installation, video, site-specific, audio and performance art. Preference may be given towards interactive and/or multimedia work that examines how the personal and political is articulated through digital mediation. Web-based projects are also welcome. However, due to the flexible parameters of an open call, the emerging curator will develop an exhibition related to all the submissions received.

Each selected artist will receive a CARFAC artist fee for participating. Artwork will be exhibited at InterAccess beginning Friday July 10 until Saturday August 8, 2009.

While we welcome proposals from outside of Ontario, please note that InterAccess cannot provide artist travel fees or cover the shipping of artwork. Participating artists will be responsible for timely transportation of their artwork to the gallery a week before the opening on Thursday July 2, 2009. Although the artist is chiefly responsible for installing his/her work, InterAccess will provide technical assistance and basic audio/video equipment.

All submissions must include:
- an artist statement (1 page)
- a project description (1 page)
- a clear description of technical requirements listing:
1.) materials provided by the artist, including any software and audio-visual equipment
2.) materials expected from InterAccess, including software and/or hardware
- artistic support material of previous works, and if possible, proposed work (DVD is preferred, however, URL links or JPG images are also accepted)
- a current C.V. (3 pages max)

Final deadline for submissions to be received at InterAccess is Friday April 24, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.

Send submissions to:

Jennifer Chan
Curatorial Intern
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6J 2Y8

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InterAccess is a non-profit artist run centre that enables artists and the general public to explore the intersections of art and technology. Both a gallery and production facility, InterAccess is devoted to the conception, construction, exhibition and discussion of electronic media art. For more information visit http://www.interaccess.org. For more information on the emerging artists exhibition, please e-mail Jennifer Chan at jennifer(dot)chan(at)interaccess(dot)org.