Two Steps Back, the eighth emerging artists show at Interaccess opened last week. Interaccess has been on a bit of a roll of late, having just hosted a workshop with Second Front, the premiere performance art troupe of Second Life earlier this week. This most recent edition of the show playfully orbits the themes of failure and obsolescence. Considering the defining moment of this summer has been an Apple product launch, this mischievous attitude......

Indie popsters Stars will be shooting a new video in Toronto tomorrow and Thursday and they want you to be in it. If you missed the Joel Plaskett shoot we told you about earlier this year, you've got another shot at your 15 minutes of fame (or at least becoming known among your acquaintances as "the one who was in a music video"). Aspiring extras should send photos and contact info to extras@blinkpictures.com for......

Alfred North Whitehead is quoted as saying "No one ever says, here I am, and I have brought my body with me." What it means to have a body, our often fractious relationship with it, and how its definitions have played out in relations of power are all topics of increasing importance in the art world. As science and technology expand the limits of the body, artistic practice is exploring new ways of its representation.......

After finishing a year of schooling, there can't be anything better than plastering the walls of your collegiate institution with anything you want. Each year the photography, film and new media programs at Ryerson University culminate in an exhibit of over 250 student artists' work titled Maximum Exposure. Going into its 12th year, the event amasses pieces from all years of study and creates a three-storey gallery by using the entire School of Image......

While “citizen journalists” can immediately broadcast breaking news to millions of people through blogs, online communities, free podcasts and webcasts, how do traditional media outlets compete, both from an editorial and business perspective? This Thursday, April 5, the Canadian Journalism Foundation asks (and attempts to answer) the question of journalism’s place in a wired world. Join Mathew Ingram, Business and Technology Columnist for the Globe and Mail; Mark Evans, Operations VP of b5media inc.; Hugh......

Calling all online A/V junkies -- podcasters, vloggers, and even bloggers, and all those listening, watching and reading new media. PodCamp Toronto wants you to spend a weekend sharing, discussing and learning all things podcast. A podcast, in case you didn't know yet, is a downloadable audio or video file, often syndicated through blogs. On February 24 and 25, everyone from podcast amateurs to connoisseurs are welcome to participate in the "unconference" held at......

Toronto may be the business capital of Canada, but it's often an old dog with few new tricks. We also uncomfortably proclaim ourselves the cultural capital, not because Southern Ontario has much of its own, but because we import the most from elsewhere. Yet, something is drawing our local musicians westward. The "Big Four" record companies and most independent labels are based in our city, but Terry McBride of Nettwerk Management is turning the entire......

The finalists for the Canadian New Media Awards are up for your perusal. A bunch of Toronto area folks are up for awards including our friends at murmur! The only thing we're sad about is just how snore-inducing their site is. Maybe its that traditional Canadian modesty or the organizers unwillingness to outshine those who they are celebrating. In other web awards news the voting form for the Webby Awards are up. The CBC Digital......

Wednesday, March 15th brings the launch of [murmur] at Hart House. [murmur] currently exists in several places, including Toronto's Kensington Market and along Spadina Avenue. It is an audio archival project made up of signs of big green ears. You call the number on the ear with your cell phone to hear a story that took place in the exact spot you're standing. Details: [murmur] at Hart House Launch March 15, 2006 at 6pm Debates......

A deal has been struck, or so they're saying. Tod Maffin, whose incessant blogging was even starting to drive his wife mad, had it first, and will continue to go it unplugged until everyone is back at their cubicle, or waiting in line behind Peter Mansbridge at Ooh La La. A few details of the deal - -- Contract workers may never total more than 9.5% of the total workforce. -- Wages will increase by......

OCAD loves its pick-up stick parthenon, and they think you should to. Whatever your opinion of the checkerboard on air, you must like a good party. And tonight's Night of the Unboring aspires to be one. The dinner party is sold out, but tickets for the performance-y art afterparty remain. What kind of performances, you ask? Here's what they offer: "Live video mixing by Blue Guerilla Media will project the best of new media......

Well, we don't know what practicing artist and soon to be OCAD President Sara Diamond has on her OCAD to do list, but one of those line items will definitely include defending Will Alsop's tabletop from Pugly commendation (see below). In keeping with OCAD's tradition of hiring practicing artistes, Ms. Diamond is both video/installation artist and current director of research at the Banff Centre and artistic director of the Banff New Media Institute. She also......

Terminus 1525, the Canadian web arts portal, has gotten together with the NFB to bring propaganda films back into the lives of relatively unbrainwashed young Canadians. They've created "-40," a CD/DVD compilation of 20 young audio/video/new media artists who've taken the 1940s propaganda films supplied them, and created what Torontoist hopes will be good stuff(ie-new shorts and audio pieces). A little glam propaganda could be a good thing (glamaganda?), muses Torontoist. In fact, the......