Toronto Craft Alert

Angelune met these guys at a work related function and, knowing nothing previously about the event, they offered their team up as volunteers for City of Craft 2009!  They also are hooking us up with some technical help for the site.   So we thought we’d help spread the word about their services here as a token of our thanks.  Hope this helps some of you out too!

The NewPath Network™ is a networking hub for IT and IT related independent professionals within the Greater Toronto Area. Our mandate is to mobilize the untapped [...]

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Create your own jewelry out of old computer parts and how to’s on other techie DIYs?
Check this out from the Linux Caffe! How great is this?!

Do-It-Yourself culture is about hands on activities, and that is the philosophy here. At the end of the day you keep what you make.

***Jewellery making using old computer parts***
March 2nd, 10th, and 18th.

-Using old computer parts we will be making funky jewellery. Here is your chance to have fun with a glue gun. Take your frustrations [...]

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I met Michelle Gay at Sheridan College, as she did an artist talk for my sculpture class. She is also an alumni in the Art and Art history program – at the university of toronto and sheridan college. Her work involves beautiful illustrations and mixed digital media using interaction with the viewer. If you ever get the chance to see her, she’s quite a delight!

Michelle Gay, timer (swat), 2004, computer-operated digital media.

Michelle Gay
Interfaces and Operating Systems
7 March 2009 – 5 June 2009
in Gairloch [...]

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Some very cool sounding workshops from InterAccess. For full listings see their website.

Registration is now open for the InterAccess Summer Workshop Series

InterAccess’s Interactive Art Workshop Series provides artists with the tools needed to begin exploring the creative uses of technology. Participants gain a solid technical foundation for realizing their artistic vision. This summer, we are happy to introduce a new type of workshop to our roster: our $19.99 party nites! Pay only $19.99 for these workshops, plus you [...]

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Open-Contents is a project by Toronto based glass artist Brad Turner. It is an attempt to link the physical world of arts and craft with the voluntary electronic community. As an installation of 26 hand made bottles, collectively representing the letters on a keyboard, participants are encouraged to submit their own message, via website, to the character of their choosing. For every electronic submission, the message will be printed and kept within the corresponding bottle. As the bottles fill [...]

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This bright idea comes from the Treehouse Group, “a collective of Toronto-area thinkers who come together to create innovative solutions to pressing social problems.” Thanks to Becky for sending it along.

The Grown-Up Science Fair

Do you find yourself reminiscing about the awesomeness that was your
Grade 6 science fair? Are you still kicking yourself for choosing the
Egg Drop over the (clearly superior) Volcano? Do you feel as though
you never really had your moment in the Science [...]

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