InterAccess’s Community Archive Program Fall 2026 Cohort
The IACAP volunteers will be addressing InterAccess’s longstanding archive, working towards a digital catalogue for researchers, artists, and curators, and learning more about a unique part of Toronto’s media art history through the lens of their varied individual practices. The work done by this season’s IACAP volunteers will be on display through P2P 2026: IA Members’ Showcase in December.
Community Archivists:
Bianca Garcia
Bianca Isabel Garcia is a textile artist and fashion researcher born in Baguio, Philippines and raised in the American South. Working across garment mending, sewing, weaving, historical and archival research, creative writing, and printmaking, Bianca explores Philippine history and traces the legacies of American imperialism in her homeland through the lens of fashion and other everyday objects and artifacts. Bianca holds a Master of Arts in Fashion from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Kayla Eli
Kayla Eli is a Kenyan-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Toronto. Working across an array of mediums, her practice examines the mundanity of life and the charm of memories. She is currently studying at OCAD University, pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Futures, and applying the experience gained through this volunteer opportunity to her thesis.
Lex Dermenjian
Lex is a queer Californian-Canadian audiovisual archivist and tortured Blue Jays fan. She graduated from TMU’s Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management Program in 2025 and currently works as a consultant in the private digital collections space.
Angus O Macdonald
Angus O Macdonald is a time-based media archivist and non-profit fundraiser based in Tkaronto, CA. He holds an MA in Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management from TMU, is a Co-Chair of the8fest Small Gauge Film Festival and currently works as Development and Archive Coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto.
Coordinators:
Bianca Gouveia
Bianca Gouveia is currently pursuing a Master’s of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto. She has a background in program and project coordination within the non-profit sector as well as charitable fundraising.
Ayah Alkhateeb
Aya[h] is a Palestinian-Canadian designer exploring the connections between people, place and what builds their relationships to one another. She is currently completing her Master of Landscape Architecture at UofT’s John H. Daniels Faculty, where she is learning how to facilitate such relationships in order to encourage public constituents to discover, love and protect the ecosystems that we are a part of, but only see in our peripheral. Aya approached the design of this program as an exploration of community building and knowledge sharing, and is excited by the use of interdisciplinary connections to build healthier and more robust public realms.
About the InterAccess Community Archive Program
InterAccess’s Community Archive Program will allow you to gain invaluable experience in archive cataloging and learn more about a unique part of Toronto’s media art history along the way. InterAccess is a gallery, educational facility, production studio, festival, and registered charity dedicated to new media and emerging practices in art and technology. InterAccess’s mission is to expand the cultural significance of art and technology by fostering and supporting the full cycle of art and artistic practice through education, production, and exhibition.
The InterAccess Community Archive Program was designed by Ayah Alkhateeb and Bianca Gouveia, building upon archival work by Kit Haehnel, with support by Evangeline Y Brooks.