THE LAST SUPPER
Mercer Union - Project Room Installation
Toronto, September 10 - October 31, 1998

Alstad's installation of the Last Supper for the project room responds to a New York Times article entitled 'What's Cooking on Death Row' which reported on the last meals of the 144 men executed by the state of Texas in the last 15 years. The significance of the requests reveal a complexity of emotions and personalities which make the people on death row all the more real and less a number. For the installation, Alstad has created a series of "commemorative plates" with images of the last requested meals along with the execution dates of the prisoners on death row.

Press Clip: 'Shame Garnishes Farewell Dinners': "Michael Alstad's chillingly beautiful installation 'The Last Supper' is a quiet, meditative counterpoint to the macabre 'cool factor' of capital punishment. There is no hysteria in this exhibit, no glamorisation of either the criminals or the crimes of the state. Nor, conversely, is Alstad's work yet another vigil candle in a paper cup, wet with guilty liberal tears. It will, however, make you cry."
RM Vaughan - Eye Weekly, October 8, 1998

EMILY CARR COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Interdisciplinary Studies
Vancouver: 1984 - 1988

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DESIGN CENTRE
Toronto: 1993

SHIFTING PRACTICES
A Two Day Symposium on Interdisciplinary Practice
St. John's, Newfoundland, 4.28 - 4.30, 02

DATALAND
Extended workshop by Ping Media Network to develop Internet-based art projects incorporating server programming and databases. The exhibition was presented as part of the Images Festival of Film, Video and New Media.
Toronto, 4.02

TELEANAMNESIS Teleconference
Brazilian initiative involving online and onsite events and publications, curated by Simone Michelin and moderated by Nina Czegledy
Toronto & Rio de Janeiro - 7.12.01

BANFF NEW MEDIA INSTITUTE
GROWING THINGS: The Cultures of Nano Tech, Bio Tech, and
Eco Tech Meat Art
Banff, Alberta, 6.2000

ISEA - Inter Society for the Electronic Arts
Cartographies: Mapping New Media Art
Montreal, 10.99

MUSEUMS AND THE WEB CONFERENCE
Presented Paper: 'Web Specific Art - The Development of a New Genre'
Camille Turner, Michael Alstad
Toronto, 4.98

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF ART GALLERIES
New Media Conference
Toronto, 6.96

MEDIA FORUM '96
Trinity Square Video and the Design Exchange
Toronto, 5.96

HELDEN DER ARBEIT - Berlin, Germany
Site specific art exhibition at a former industrial site on the banks of the River Spree in Berlin-Oberschšneweide. Sept 7 - October 7, 2002

dataland - Toronto: group exhibition of participatory data driven net art
Images Festival of film, video, new media
April 11 - 20, 2002

ARTIMAGE - Graz Biennial of Media and Architecture - Graz, Austria
International Competition
November 7 - 11, 2001

contemporary art forum artworks.01 -Kitchener, Ontario: Video Programme
September 15-23, 2001

FILE (International Festival of Electronic Language) - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Image and Sound
August 7 - September 10, 2001

Fly Gallery - Toronto: Site Specific Video Installation in Storefront Gallery
Dec 1 - 31, 2000

Global Multimedia Interface - London, UK: Public screenings of international web/video works projected on 7 metre screen in Leicester Square
November 99 - January 2000

Goethe Institute - Toronto
Currents: Survery of Canadian Media Art
November 13 -15, 1999

She Said Boom! - Toronto. Site Specific Window Installation
Sept. 3 - Oct. 13, 1999

MIX NYC Festival of Experimental Gay & Lesbian Film and Video - New York.
November 18 - 24,1998

London Electronic Arts - London, UK. Pandaemonium: Festival of Moving Images. Digital Salon Programme
October 16 - 23, 1998

Mercer Union - Toronto: Project Room Installation
September 10 - October 31, 1998

The Hoarding Project - Toronto. Site Specific Art at the Festival Hall Construction Site June 11 - December, 1998

Modern Fuel Gallery - Kingston. Rapid Eye Movement, Group Show
May 30 - July 18, 1998

The Bank of Symbiosis - Toronto. Site Specific Art at the Bank
October 2- 25, 1997

A Space Gallery - Toronto. Unhuman Kind, Group Show
June 20 - July 27, 1996

Partisan Gallery - Toronto. Flaring Nigeria - Artists Against Crude Repression Group Show December 7 - January 4, 1996

Partisan Gallery - Toronto. Solo Show
September 15 - October 7, 1995

Symbiosis, The Clinic - Toronto. Installation: Examine, Expose
April 21 - May 13, 1995

Symbiosis, 1087 Queen West - Toronto. Installation: The Grief Room
November 7 - 13, 1993

Courtyard 9 - Toronto. Artsweek Group Show at the Church of Saint George the Martyr September 24 - October, 1993

You Are For Gutting Me - Toronto. Site Specific Installation at an abandoned building in the financial district.
March1993

Berliner Zeitung
Marin Majica, Helden am Werk
September 14. 2002

Eye Weekly
'Micro Movies take Art to the Street' - RM Vaughan
October 12, 2000

Eye Weekly
'Beyond the Cube' - Jennifer Leonard
October 5, 2000

Chicago Art Joural
'Telos' - Kerry Boeye
Spring 2000

Espace
'L'oeuvre/site comme echange et action' - John K Grande
December, 1999

Eye Weekly
'Shame Garnishes Farewell Dinners' - RM Vaughan
October 8, 1998

Xtra Magazine
'Sex & Deconstructing Construction' - Gordon Bowness
August 13, 1998

The Globe and Mail
'Gallery Going' - Gary Michael Dault
August 8, 1998

CBC Infoculture
'Web art: pushing the boundaries' - Bob Steele
June 17, 1998

The Bank of Symbiosis
Catalogue Essay: Sally McKay
Bank Chronology: Harold Alegria-Ortiz
32 pages, May 1998

INTERTWINING
' Artists, Landscape, Issues, Technology' - John K. Grande
Black Rose Books, Montreal 320 pages, 1998

The Globe and Mail
'Gallery Going' - Gillian MacKay
October 11, 1997

Vie Des Arts
'Humains Inhumains' - John K. Grande
No. 163, Summer, 1996

Xtra Magazine
'Mutant Latex is No Stretch' - Corneil Van Der Speck
July 18, 1996

Unhuman Kind
A Space Catalogue Essays - Claire Christie and John Grande
July 1996

Matriart
'Do Not Talk of It' - Virginia Macdonell
Double Issue, Spring, 1996

Eye Weekly
'The Curse of Twiggy' - Oliver Girling
April 27, 1995

Xtra Magazine
'Injecting Life Into Art' - Donna Lypchuck
April 14 1995

semiotext(e) canadas
Photo Essay on 'You Are For Gutting Me' Installation
July, 1994

substance
Co-curated with Camille Turner an exhibition of interactive installations as part of the Subtle Technologies conference. InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
May 11 - 25, 02

Pixel Plunder©
Co-curated with Michelle Kasprzak an exhibition of seven net.art projects which explored issues of artistic authenticity and copyright on the web.
September 01 - April 02

TRANSMEDIA 2000
Curator or site-specific video billboard project of international media art. Progamme featured works from artists in Australia, China, Hungary, the United States, Russia and seven from Canada. Corner of Yonge & Eglinton Streets, Toronto.
September 22 - October 15, 2000

SYMBIOSIS COLLECTIVE
Project Co-ordinator of four multidisciplinary site specific exhibitions.
Responsibilities include grant writing, fund raising, publicity, and chairing meetings.
1992 - present

YEAR ZERO ONE
Curator and administrator of artist run internet site dedicated to exhibiting artists web projects.
1996 - present

THE HOARDING PROJECT
Project Co-ordinator of site specific installation project with six artists at the Festival Hall construction site in Toronto
June 11 - December 31, 1998

A SPACE GALLERY - UNHUMANKIND
Co-ordinated with MaryAnne Barkhouse four artist show focusing on issues regarding animal exploitation
June 20 - July 27, 1996

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