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Geary Art Crawl Line-up - DAY 1: March 7th, 2026 (11am - 11pm)

1. UmaNota x CSV Workshop
LET’S ANIMATE: FLIP-BOOK With Blue MB K

📍 Charles Street Video ✷ 76 Geary Ave

Flip-Book Animation Workshop. Learn how to bring drawings into life. We will learn basic animation principles and create flip-books. Participants will be practicing in drawing and learning about movement coordination. By Blue MBK. (4-hours)

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2. The Album: A Digital Collaging Workshop (3 - 8pm)

Whether you’re a tech wizard or just love a good show, this drop-in workshop is designed for creators of all ages and promises to be a weekend of digital magic.

Curious about projection art? Ever wondered how artists turn boring walls into moving masterpieces? Be among the first to explore our newly upgraded immersive gallery. It’s bigger, brighter, and ready to expand your artistic horizons.

Step 1: Lets you grab a quick, "no-scary-jargon" intro to the world of projection art and placement. We’ll show you how to bend light to fit shapes, spaces, rhythms and more.

Step 2: Step up to our master station and add your unique flair. Bring in your own photos, videos, or sound clips to see them instantly woven into a massive, immersive projection.*Bring your own USB (BYOUsb) with your favorite pictures/clips, to see your memories become part of our digital mural!*

No experience? No problem. We’ll provide cameras, lights and audio recorders; you provide the imagination.

Artist facilitators ~ March 7th: 

Connie Oreamuno  (March 7th, 3 to 5pm)
Artist Bio: Connie Oreamuno is a queer, Chilean Toronto-based new media artist. She is drawn to dream states, ethereality, colour, surrealism, and how different worlds and practices can intersect. Influenced by her dance background, she is interested in how movement and digital mediums can merge. Her work has been featured in Festival of Recorded Movement, The Textile Museum of Canada, Geary Art Crawl, IC Contemporary’s Noxte and is currently a board member at Charles Street Video. She has primarily worked with projection design and mapping for installations, theatre, film, concerts and event production.

Tara Rose (March 7th, 6 to 8pm)
Artist Bio: Tara Rose Morris is a mixed desi new media artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada. She uses technology to create live performances, immersive installations, and artifacts that propose fantastical worlds of embodiment and belonging. She is particularly interested into the "invisible interstices that lie between the frames" (McLaren, n.d.), taking frames to mean not just keyframes but also bodies, identities, contexts, datapoints, structures and interstices to mean not just inbetweens but also connections, abstractions, memory, latent space, translations, flickers. She sees technology as a threshold to spaces that refuse these "frames", allowing us access into liminal ontologies that allow us to connect more deeply with self and with each other. She has shown various video and VR standalone works, including with Gray Area, SXSW XR, VIFF Signals, Superchief Gallery, and NFT NOW. She has developed real-time visual projections for InterAccess, Zora, and Superchief Gallery. She has been an artist in residence with AVAX and Nebraska Art Farm and she is currently a member of NEW INC Y11, focusing on art and code. She has a BA in Media Studies from Pomona College and an MSc in Fiction and Entertainment from SCIArc.

3. Body Electric (8pm to 11pm) - Ilze Briede, Mark-David Hosale

Inspired by Walt Whitman’s visionary poem “I Sing the Body Electric,” this exhibition reimagines the body as a network of electric impulses, voltages, and signals that both generate and transmit lived experiences. Body Electric brings together artists, researchers, performers, and technologists who explore the inner electrical life of the human body through biophysical sensing. By capturing physiological signals such as brainwaves (EEG), heart rhythms (ECG), and muscle activity (EMG), the exhibition reveals the hidden languages of the body — not as metaphor, but as material, as data, as expression.

 About the Artists:

Ilze Briede [a.k.a. Kavi] is a Latvian/Canadian artist and researcher working across multiple disciplines, including visual art, interactive installation and live performance. Her creative practice and academic research encompass working with live data and designing systems that transform it into visceral experiences, igniting novel pathways to knowledge and perception. She is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computational Art at York University.

Mark-David Hosale is a computational artist and composer and an Associate Professor in Computational Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design at York University. His work explores the boundaries between the virtual and the physical world, spanning performance, public art, and gallery installations.

Mark-David is the founder of nD::StudioLab, a research-creation space dedicated to art-science exploration, computational art, and interactive architecture. His research integrates hardware, software, and digital fabrication to create immersive experiences that blur the line between the virtual and the real. His theoretical work focuses on worldmaking—the creation of alternate realities as artistic and ontological explorations that challenge our perception of reality.

At the heart of his work lies a fundamental inquiry: How do we come to know something? How do we express what we know? Through immersive art, he seeks to create sensory-driven experiences that transcend language, offering new ways of understanding and engaging with the world.