Core Members
Rob Cruickshank
Dafydd Hughes
Dafydd Hughes is an artist, musician, programmer and educator living in Toronto. In addition to performing, recording and touring with some of Canada’s most notable artists (Feist, Jacksoul, Esthero), he leads several of his own creative projects and is active in Canada’s popular, jazz, electronic and experimental music scenes. Dafydd teaches Ear Training and Music Technologies at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario and is a member of the board of directors at Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, where he loves to spend time teaching and participating in workshops, playing with technology, taking things apart and finding himself unable to put things back together.
Rob King
Rob King is an artist, researcher and student in the Communication and Culture masters program at Ryerson. His works have focused on the social interactions between people in an online environment, emergent systems, and digital play.
David McCallum
The work of Toronto-based musician and media artist David McCallum has flirted with improvised performance, DIY electronics, and locative media, with an emphasis on sharing his curiosity. Before being appointed Editor of Musicworks Magazine, he received an M.Sc. in Art and Technology from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and studied physics and music before that. He is responsible for the Warbike, a bicycle that makes sound from WiFi networks, and You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato: a study in the sonic properties of genetically modified potatoes.
Jesse Scott
Jesse Scott—aka metre, aka CineCitta—is a new-media artist, promoter, curator, and theorist.
Jesse works within many stylistic domains, in the context of live performance, recorded, and installation-based art.
His work is preoccupied with communication architectures, the crossover of sound and listening practice with radical political gesture, the autonomy and sovereignty of the image from recuperation, and the political role of the artist.
Michael Trommer
Michael Trommer is a Toronto based producer and visual artist who has recorded for such labels as Transmat, Wave, Ultra-red, and/OAR, Audiobulb, Truffle, Stasisfield, Interchill, Monocromatica, Serein, Thinner and con-v.
Broad-minded in his approach to electronic music, Michael also creates gallery-based audio installation work and has exhibited at Australia’s ‘Liquid Architecture’ exhibition, Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt, art:tech 2009 in Cordoba, Spain and soundLAB VI in Köln. His music has also been included in Dodi Nash’s ‘Listening Shell’ installation, on permanent exhibit at London’s Victoria and Albert museum.
Michael was featured at the 2003 Movement Festival (a.k.a.DEMF) as well as the 2008 edition of Montréal’s acclaimed mutek festival.
Casual members
Ben Bogart
Ben is an installation artist, visual performer and programmer. He works in an open-source context and makes the software he develops available under the GPL. His installations create content live and on the fly in response to the work's sensed environment. These works may involve interaction from the audience, or the work may simply respond to the context in which it exists. Ben is a structural thinker and imagines his work as the production of media architectures. Physical modelling, chaos, feedback systems and evolutionary algorithms have been used to inform and engage in his creative process. Ben is currently developing the pixelTANGO visual performance software for the Société des arts technologiques.
Carey Dodge
Len Goins
Luis Hernandez (Mandelbrut)
Oliver Heinrich
Julie Lassonde
Julie Lassonde is an interdisciplinary practitioner who is interested in performances of femininity and masculinity in art and social justice. Julie has presented solo performances and movement improvisations in Edinburgh, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria. She lives in Montreal and she is a member of the Board of InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto. In May 2007, she received an Innovative Electronic Theses and Dissertations Award for her work entitled "Performing Law" in Uppsala, Sweden - see law.uvic.ca/lassonde.
VJ Nokami
Eric Filion aka vj Nokami, graphic designer is in the visual media and communications environment. He participates in several visual artistic performances as media designer. Eric was part of the Neoist movement, and collaborates regularly in international artistic visual presentations in Europe (AVITUK, Optronica, Arts Electronica), USA (SHARE, AVITRetreat, Center art project) in Asia (Mobile road cinema thailand, Thailand New media Arts) and in Canada (Momentfactory, SAT, Champs Libre).
His artistic approach is clearly influenced by his numerous travels on several continents. The canvas of the images he expresses tend to reflect human emotions based on cultural values where ancient traditions meet with the present, to clash and become in harmony in the now.
Mantissa (Jeremy Rotsztain)
Jeremy Rotsztain founded I/O Media in 2005. He is currently in New York City and works with responsive and evolving media systems. His interests span from audio-visual performance to interactive architecture, and video painting installations. In 2003, he created BIXSimulator, a realtime 3D simulator for the award winning BIX media facade in Graz, Austria (www.bix.at). He has also worked closely with a number of theatre and dance companies to create media-based components for their productions. Jeremy has performed and exhibited his work in Berlin, Frankfurt, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and New York City.
Kristin Trethewey
Kristin lives in Toronto's east end. She works in interactive and performance video, after graduating from McMaster University in 2005. She is currently studying to become an art director.
Neil Wiernik
Montreal ex-pat Neil Wiernik who currently calls Toronto his home, began composing electronic music in 1988 with explorations in audio art and experimental music. His music was recently described in The Wire as having "...the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays."
Neil has presented projects at the Finland Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Subtle Technologies Conference, La SAT, The Medusa Complex, Mutek Festival and Gallery Optica. Neil was a co-founder of the Toronto and Montreal based electronic music promotion outfit clonk, the Canadian electronic music portal phoniq, and currently co-curates vagueterrain.net - an online digital arts quarterly.