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Michael Awad, Chair of the Board
Joined July 2004; elected Chair June 2006

Michael Awad holds both Bachelor and Masters degrees in Architecture, a Masters of Urban Design, and taught at the UofT Faculty of Architecture for nearly a decade. First exhibited in 2001, Michael's experimental photography was included in and represented the 'Substitute City' exhibition at the Toronto PowerPlant Gallery, curated by Philip Monk. He was then selected to represent Canada at the 2002 Venice Architectural Biennale, and was commissioned to design the Canadian Pavilion at the 2004 Art Biennale of Brazil in San Paulo. His first solo exhibition, 'The Entire City Project', was presented in 2005 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curated by David Moos. His commissioned art works are now in the collections of The Art Gallery of Ontario, Pearson International Airport, the City of Toronto's Office of the Mayor, and York University. Awad was recruited as a board member in 2004 specifically to manage the relocation of InterAccess to its new location.

Robert Cruickshank
Elected November 1999

Robert Cruickshank is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. His works in various media including electronic and robotic installations, sound art, electroacoustic music, and photography have been exhibited in Toronto, and internationally. As a long-term member of InterAccess, he has participated in many collaborative projects, such as the shows Space Probe and SenseBus, and the Art Interface Device project. He is currently a member of I/O Media, an InterAccess-based electronic audio/visual improvisational group. He has developed a number of workshops at InterAccess, providing artists with an opportunity to learn electronics, and has assisted numerous artists with the technological challenges of realizing their works. By day, he works in the engineering department of CHUM Television.

Pierre Tremblay
Elected June 2005

Pierre Tremblay is an artist whose work has been exhibited for the past twenty years and appears in a number of public and private collections in Canada and France. Tremblay, who is currently the Visual Studies Assistant-Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, was born in Quebec City and lived and worked for many years in Paris. He holds two Bachelor degrees; in Graphic Art from Laval University and in Photography from Ryerson, respectively. He has a Master's Degree in Fine Arts (Art et Technologies de l'Image) from University of ParisVIII. His interest in moving images and sound questions the world in flux and how we see and perceive. In the last few years he has been interested in revisiting the traditional art genres of portraiture and landscape. His latest exploration questioning the traditional genre of landscape and seeing multiple moments at once has been exhibited this year in film festivals in Montreal, Perth, Australia, Xiamen, China and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tremblay has also been the coordinator for the French visiting artist program at the School of Image Arts since his arrival at Ryerson.

Liss Platt
Elected June 2006

Liss Platt is a multimedia artist whose work takes the form of videotapes, films, digital photos, web sites, performances, and installations. She is also an Associate Professor in the Multimedia Program at McMaster University. Prior to moving to Canada, Liss lived in Brooklyn, New York for 10 years, where she was very active in the media arts community in various capacities: as a Program Coordinator for Media Alliance, as an independent curator, as a consultant for a number of nonprofit arts organizations, as a volunteer workshop instructor for Dyke TV, and as a board member for the Standby Program. Recently, Liss has become involved in the media arts community in Toronto and is currently part of a Toronto collective called the Transmission Commission that is organizing an exhibition in Grange Park to coincide with the International AIDS Conference in August. Additionally, Liss is working with filmmaker Petra Chevrier, Martin Heath of Cinecyle, and Tom Taylor of Pleasure Dome to create a bicycle that powers a film projector. Liss currently resides in Hamilton, ON.

Dafydd Hughes
Elected June 2006 (1 year term)

Dafydd Hughes is an artist and music educator based in Toronto, Canada. He is an instructor in Music Technologies and Ear Training at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, and is active as a performer, composer and arranger in Toronto and throughout Canada. Dafydd's formal training includes studies at Mohawk College and the University of Toronto, where he earned a degree in jazz performance with a minor in composition in 1999. Since graduation he has worked extensively as a freelance performer, composer and arranger in Toronto's jazz, popular and improvised music scenes. Through involvement with new media organizations such as Toronto's InterAccess, Dafydd has devoted considerable research to the relationship between technology and art, concentrating on computer music and audio. He has developed several computer-based musical systems using programming environments such as Pure Data, Csound and Python. He has taught workshops in Pure Data and synthesis for several organizations including InterAccess.

Risa Horowitz, Vice-Chair, Treasurer
Elected June 2006

Currently living in her hometown, Toronto, Risa Horowitz has lived and worked as a visual artist, writer, and art gallery programmer in seven Canadian provinces, and has exhibited her works in galleries including Plug Inc ica, The Saidye Bronfman Centre, The Mendel Art Gallery, and several artist-run-centres, as well as in the UK and in Brazil. Reviews of her work have appeared in the Globe & Mail and BlackFlash, while critical writing by Horowitz has been published in Canadian Art, Border Crossings, C-Magazine and BlackFlash. Risa was recently awarded grants from both the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts in addition to the K.M. Hunter award for excellence in Visual Arts. Risa is also a member of the Programming Advisory Council at InterAccess. 2008 exhibitions of her work will take place at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia, and at MKG127 Gallery in Toronto, and Risa will attend La Cité - the Paris Studio - in summer 2008.

Elizabeth Littlejohn, Secretary
Elected June 2006

Professor Elizabeth Littlejohn teaches courses in animation, interactive storytelling and web culture and design in the Communication, Culture and Information Technology department at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in conjunction with the University of Toronto at Mississauga. In 2003, she attended the Interactive Art and Entertainment Program at the Canadian Film Centre where she developed 'Mobile Mysteries', an interactive cell phone game, with Marty Blake. She specializes in interactive storytelling, motion graphics and new media theory. Her short narrative 16mm 'Boxspring' has been shown in film festivals internationally, and she has received grants from the Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council.

Julie Lassonde
Elected June 2006, (1 year term)

Julie is qualified as a lawyer in Ontario and has experience serving on a corporate Board. She is also involved in the fields of performance art and video. In addition, Julie is fluent in English and French. Julie is currently in the final stages of an interdisciplinary Master's degree at the University of Victoria involving visual arts and law. Her interest in new technologies, electronic and digital arts initially emerged out of her practical need to document live performance for this project, but she quickly discovered their exciting potential as a medium of expression.

Stephanie Rogerson

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Daniel ArcŽ

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