two people's head and shoulders, each with a TV for a head. Each is holding the TV where the head would be. Smasher's Bash is written across the background in yellow with logos and titles inside the cracked TV screens

VP’s Smasher’s Bash: Demolition in the Drayway!

After the cathartic mayhem of last year’s inaugural Smasher’s Bash, it was clear: the arts community has some stuff to work through (grant rejections, etc.), and breaking things in public seems to help. So we’re doing it again.

Join us Friday, August 23, 8 pm to midnight in the Artspace Drayway for Smasher’s Bash Vol. 2: a one-night-only release of tension, frustration, and pure destructive joy.

TV monitor screen with a blue background and green and white heart-like shapes, mirrored from the centre of the screen

SLFMAE 2025: Soul-Analog – Anthony Valade

Part of the 2025 Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration. Presented in partnership with First Fridays

Soul-Analog is an interactive art installation experiment / artist talk that integrates vintage/retro video technologies and cameras in tandem with human interaction to create active motion murals of the “Soul” in the image presented.

bingenTV, by Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo

bingenTV -Sophie Seita & Naomi Woo

bingenTV is presented by Cluster Festival and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

June 6 – August 1, 2025

Working with video, textile, autofiction, and various installation processes, Sophie Seita’s and Naomi Woo’s exhibition pulls out and reroots the speculative potential of archives and queer history.

Playful and flirty, this genre-bending talk show installation features a cast of queer characters real and fictional, past and present, in a whirlwind jaunt through space and time.

SLFMAE 2025

Anthony Valade – Artist in Residence for SLFMAE 2025

Please Welcome Anthony Valade to VP’s Scott Leroux Residency Program!

It is our pleasure to announce Anthony Valade as the 2025 recipient of the Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration (SLFMAE). In memory of Scott Leroux and supported by the Leroux family, the SLFMAE is an annual, month-long residency focused on the research and exploration of a specific technology and related aesthetic approaches. This year the residency is focused on working  with the Analogue Video system.

Video commission Residency Call for submissions

Video Commission Residency 2025- Call for Submissions

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to announce the 3rd Video Commission Residency, VCR Vol.3: Temporal Landscapes. This residency supports the creation of new experimental screen-based works, inviting submissions from artists for a single-channel video responding to the theme of Temporal Landscapes.

For this edition, we encourage artists to explore the temporal representation of landscapes through the potential of digital media. Temporal Landscapes highlights the tension between time’s transient nature and the digital medium’s capacity to manipulate and distort temporal perception.

Video commission Residency Call for submissions

Video Commission Residency 2025 Application

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to announce the 3rd Video Commission Residency, VCR Vol.3: Temporal Landscapes. This residency supports the creation of new experimental screen-based works, inviting submissions from artists for a single-channel video responding to the theme of Temporal Landscapes.

For this edition, we encourage artists to explore the temporal representation of landscapes through the potential of digital media. Temporal Landscapes highlights the tension between time’s transient nature and the digital medium’s capacity to manipulate and distort temporal perception.