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14/9/2005

This must be the place

InterAccess Electronic Media, Toronto

Canadian new media artists celebrate InterAccess's grand reopening

Featuring Vera Frenkel, David Rokeby, Nell Tenhaaf and Norman White. Curated by Dana Samuel.

This must be the place is a celebration of InterAccess's grand reopening in a new and renovated location in the heart of Toronto's Queen West gallery district at 9 Ossington Avenue.

InterAccess has been home to new media art and artists for nearly 25 years. This exhibition brings together four important new media artists in Canada - Vera Frenkel, David Rokeby, Nell Tenhaaf and Norman White - who have a history with Canada's first gallery and production centre dedicated to electronic art.

The works featured in This must be the place are by senior artists with international reputations who continue their involvement with InterAccess at a grassroots level. This exhibition looks anew at these historical works within the environment of InterAccess's new space - two floors and over 3,000 square feet for producing and exhibiting media works, representing the "full circuit" of media production and the historical importance of artist-run media production centres within Canada.

The artworks included in This must be the place were produced during the four decades between 1974 and 2003 and have been seen only rarely. Vera FrenkTel. el's String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video is a teleconferencing performance from 1974, the documentation of which has been transferred to DVD especially for InterAccess and this exhibition. Norman White exhibits The Music Lesson, a work from 1984 publicly shown only once. Nell Tenhaaf presents Swell, a recent interactive sculpture never before exhibited in Toronto. David Rokeby's Guardian Angel, a surveillance-based work previously created for InterAccess's old gallery space in the 401 Richmond building, is presented here as a site-specific work for our new location at Ossington and Queen.

This exhibition is accompanied by a brochure featuring an essay by Caroline Seck Langill. Join us for our grand reopening celebrations on Thursday, September 15, at 8 p.m., and visit the place where art and technology meet - InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.

This must be the place is generously supported by V tape, Creemore Springs Brewery and Dr. Jamie's Events. InterAccess gratefully acknowledges the support of the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Exhibition continues: Canadian Art Gallery Hop presents Sara Diamond speaking on This must be the place
Saturday, September 17, 4 p.m.

Image: David Rokeby, Guardian Angel, 2001. Courtesy of the artist.

Opening reception Thursday, September 15, at 8 p.m.

Contact: Tania Thompson
tel. 416-599-7206
e-mail communications@interaccess.org

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 2Y8
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-5 pm
Admission is free.

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