The Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration 2025 - Call for Submissions

We’re seeking submissions from artists for The Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration (SLFMAE).

The Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration (SLFMAE) is an annual residency focused on research and exploration.

SLFMAE offers $2000 for a one-month residency exploring a specific technology and related aesthetic approaches.

This is a site-specific research-based residency of VP’s analogue video suite.

This media arts residency focuses on exploring and researching analogue video systems as a realm of experimental potential. Instead of emphasizing the creation of new works, the program invites artists to engage with the distinctive characteristics of analogue video, embracing its tactile processes, material qualities, and inherent unpredictability.

This residency provides a flexible framework for creative exploration, encouraging the Artist-in-residence to investigate the technical, aesthetic, and conceptual possibilities of analogue video. It provides an opportunity to deconstruct and reimagine the medium, uncovering its capacity to distort, fragment, and reshape perceptions of time, space, and reality.

 

The analog video system is made to be flexible in routing, so that mixer ins / outs can be routed in a loop or to other mixers, and finally to the monitors and computers for capture. The system will also accept input for cameras, legacy tape decks (VHS, Umatic, Beta), which are all available as well.

Monitors
Various Sony, Panasonic, JVC & Commodore 4:3 CRT Reference Monitors, ranging from 9" - 18"

Routing
Kramer VS-162V 16 x 16 Video Matrix

Video Mixers
Sony FXE-100 - Video Mixer
Edirol V-4 Video Mixer
Videonics MXPro Video Effects
Videonics VE-1A Video Equalizer

Scott Leroux was a unique and creative force during the time he spent making artwork at VP. He had boundless energy and an ability to bring people together around his and others’ acts of expression. Suddenly, and sadly, Scott passed away on October 29, 2016. VP is honoured  to continue his legacy through a fund created by the Leroux family in Scott’s name.