About

For over a decade, Andrew McAllister has strived to make human-computer interactions more intuitive, usable and user-centered. As Manager, Web Design at Symantec Corporation, McAllister rolled out site-wide redesign campaigns and customized user-experiences for products and CRM projects, winning several Symantec IT awards along the way. Since 2003, McAllister has blended IT expertise with art & design at the Ontario College of Art & Design designing and building e-learning applications and supporting the digital enhancement of curriculum. As Manager, Academic Computing, McAllister currently manages the creative computing environment at OCAD, from student and faculty computing to leading innovative web development.

As a practicing artist, McAllister creates video, audio, interactive and photographic works, some of which have been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. McAllister’s videos and photographs have been shown at the International Biennale of Contemporary Art (Prague), the CONTACT Festival of Photography (Toronto), the imagineNATIVE media arts + film festival (Toronto), Century Gallery (London) and Sis Boom Bah (Toronto) in Out and About, GARDENfresh (Chicago), Oxo Tower (London) in Response/Ability and at FotoFestival Naarden (Netherlands). McAllister holds a Master’s degree in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

As a musician, McAllister has participated in the Toronto music scene since the 1990’s, including the Wavelength Music series, running a vanity label, helping mix and master records for his own band(s) and others, and performed numerous times at various venues.