Since the late 1990s, Surrey Art Gallery has been a leading public art museum in Canada with a commitment to the production and presentation of digital art, and to working with local, national, and international Indigenous artists through this stream, more broadly within other media, and art education. The Gallery collaborates with artists to proactively respond to new developments in art and provide communities where situated with opportunities to learn about and experience contemporary art using technology. Moving toward its 50th anniversary in 2025, the Gallery readies for its transition into the Interactive Art Museum, a new facility at three times its current size in Surrey City Centre. This is informed by working with extraordinary local and international artists and community stakeholders through 20 years of operating its TechLab, a purpose-built facility supporting the production and presentation of digital art, followed by 6 years an experimental art lab pilot; 21 years of its Media Gallery, an interactive screen installation space; 20 years of its Open Sound, an ongoing program of commissioning, presenting, and discussing digital audio art and related symposia; and over 10 years of its UrbanScreen, an offsite projection venue presenting leading edge digital and interactive art.

Quantum Mechanics and Tech-Art are two distinct frontier fields. The former continually expands the boundaries of human knowledge, while the latter delves into the intrinsic structure of technology and its cultural effects, as well as probing the boundaries of human perception. Unlike most creations or curations that symbolically or metaphorically reference the characteristics of quantum mechanics, this project involves collaboration among three laboratories at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU): the Quantum Optics Laboratory of the Institute of Photonics Technologies, the Art in Action Lab, and the LumiSound XR Lab of the Graduate Institute of Art & Technology. The aim is to establish Taiwan's first practical field that combines Tech-Art with quantum experiments. As a highly experimental initiative, our primary focus is exploring potential cross-domain collaborative solutions. A key task is the creation of what we call a 'bridge' – an artistic initiative that includes both practical and theoretical methodologies for bridging these two fields.

Teaching electronic arts in art schools and universities has always involved temporal experimentation, as educators seek ways to evoke interrelated histories of technologies, genres, disciplines, movements, subcultures, and communities of practice that are constantly remediated, rediscovered, and reborn. This temporal experimentation is further intensified as electronic artist/teachers reach outside the classroom, to partner with communities on pedagogical explorations that also engage with radically different local understandings of history, time, and place, through “resonant” approaches to ecology, environment, and cultures in change. At the School of Art, Media, Performance, and Design, at York University, Toronto, Canada, the past five years have been marked by new kinds of partnered learning and research experiences in electronic arts, taking place across our fine arts departments, and shaping our brand-new Creative Technologies program (launching in September 2024). This institutional presentation shares new initiatives at AMPD and invites ISEA delegates and their local partners to imagine new kinds of connections between our programs and their own work. The institutional presentation showcases electronic arts work from our resource sharing, pedagogical partnering, and technology management, and shares some of our current global community-based partnerships.