SPEAKERS

BAL, Alex
BARDINI, Thierry
CHATONSKY, Grégory
CONESA, Jean-Claude
COTE, Mario
CZEGLEDY, Nina
DANIELS, Steve
DUBOIS, Jean
ELDER, R. Bruce
EPOQUE, Martine
FISCHER, Hervé
FLEISCHER, Alain
GARDNER, Paula
JOOSSE, Angela
LaBELLE, Guillaume
LANGILL, Caroline
MATHIEU, Marie-Christine
NOLAN, Jason
OUELLET, Pierre
PALMIERI, Christine
PAPON, Frédéric
POISSANT, Louise
POULIN, Denis
PRUSKA-OLDENHOF, Izabella
RODIONOFF, Anolga
SLOPEK, Edward
SNYDER, Don
TREMBLAY, Pierre
VAN ALSTYNE, Greg

Nina Czegledy
independent media artist, curator and writer

- Conference Video

Nina Czegledy, media artist, curator and writer, has collaborated on international projects, produced digital works and has lead and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide. Resonance the Electromagenticbodies, Digitized Bodies Virtual Spectacles and the Aurora projects reflect her art&science interest. She exhibited as part of ICOLS at ISEA2004 and showed at the Girls and Guns Collective European tour. Czegledy curated numerous media programs presented internationally, Points of Entry an Australian/New Zealand digital arts collaboration was initiated by Czegledy. Her academic lectures lead to numerous publications in books and journals in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Czegledy is the president of Critical Media, Senior Fellow of KMDI, University of Toronto, Associate Professor, Studio Arts, Concordia University, Honorary Fellow of the Moholy Nagy University of Art & Design, co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum and member of Leonardo SpaceArt Network. She has been appointed by the UNESCO DigiArts Portal as a Key Advisor to the African Network and is member of Unesco's Arab States DigiArts group as well as moderator of Leonardo's Jasmin group. Nina Czegledy is the outgoing Chair of the Inter Society for Electronic Arts.

Mapping time and space
The exhibition planned for celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Interaccess aims to trace and re-examine -in an encapsulated format-historical and contemporary aspects of media art in Toronto. Charting the history of automata and projecting forward to hybrid collaborations, the chronicle illustrates changes in the creative process towards working together with partners from "elsewhere". How? Today from Bogotá to Budapest one meets an increasing number of fledgling professionals who are deeply involved in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space. While they might be physically at distant points they connect and collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams in hybrid environments. Within the process of remote collaboration questions emerge. How does the politics of spatial practices influence (remote) collaborative projects? How do we approach cultural differences? Are there any rules? How can we define the underlying artistic, social and political motivations? These issues will be discussed illustrated by case studies.