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Article on Adobe Design and Film School Connection

by Andrew on December 21, 2011

Using Flash on a Microsoft Surface I’m delighted to have an article on the Adobe Design and Film School Connection this month, writing about the work at OCAD University with the Microsoft Surface and Adobe Flash. Check it out here.

Soft Copy: Games

by Andrew on December 6, 2011

Soft Copy released Games on November 5, 2011. Entirely written and recorded by Soft Copy, with an absolute minimum of studio trickery: just 100% honest to goodness live off the floor noise. It’s available on iTunes, but why not have a listen first.

Similarly, the original artwork is by London-based artist Emer O’Brien, in a tradition of us working with other artists and designers such as Paul Boddum and Dan McCafferty (no, not the lead singer of Nazareth, the Toronto based designer) and Shelley Heebner McCafferty.

Fin de Siècle at Music Gallery

June 4, 2011

THE SUMMER COURTYARD SERIES Presented by the Music Gallery. In Collaboration with Scion. June 3-10, 2011 “FIN DE SIÈCLE” by Andrew McAllister Suburban teen angst is nostalgically distilled through a dual-screen video loop with music by the band Soft Copy. View Music Performances by: Friday June 3 RADIAN With guests, Odradek Saturday June 4 CATL. + BILL ORCUTT With [...]

Titles 6 at Musée d’Art de Joliette

February 20, 2010

Titles 6 opened Sunday 31 January at Musée d’Art de Joliette and runs until 25 April 2010.

HOT CAKES: Video from Soft Copy’s Vicious Modernism

January 27, 2010

Soft Copy’s first music video from their new 2010 release “Vicious Modernism”: Hot Cakes. “Sounding like a muscular cross between XTC at its most adventurous and Gang of Four at its most accessible, this Toronto band has a knack for making the daring sound user-friendly. ” John Sakamoto, Toronto Star

Soft Copy: Vicious Modernism

January 24, 2010

“Sounding like a muscular cross between XTC at its most adventurous and Gang of Four at its most accessible, this Toronto band has a knack for making the daring sound user-friendly. “ John Sakamoto, Toronto Star

Titles 5: Art Metropole

November 24, 2009

While the current chapter of the Titles exhibition, organized by the WayUpWayDown collective closed at Art Metropole on the 7th November, it’s expected that the exhibition will continue as Titles 6 in Quebec at Musee d’art de Joliette.

Love on the Street

October 15, 2009

For the past while, Kerry Potts and I have been working on a short doc (11 mins) entitled Love on the Street, which premiered at the imagineNATIVE media arts + film festival. In this work, we interview people who are homeless about their perspectives on love. The video also interweaves the interviews with shots of Toronto [...]

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