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AI-A-THON: Call for Indigenous Artists

Harbour Collective, in partnership with Video Pool Media Arts Centre, are responding to the disproportionate and biased imagery of Indigenous art within artificial intelligence and machine learning. The AI-A-THON will bring together four facilitators and up to 15 guest Indigenous artists to contribute to the development of contemporary First Nation, Metis and Inuit artists represented within the AI environment through a series of online and in person LABs.

MATR recipients || Lee Jones & Greta Grip

It is our pleasure to announce Greta Grip and Lee Jones as the 2023 recipients of the Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR). In response to our call, (de)PRESS(i)ON, these two artists have proposed an evolving/devolving, interactive, data-collecting, technology and craft related artwork that will respond not only to VP’s gallery, but will involve ways of including other areas of the building while drawing together ideas and inspiration from both historical and current activities.

QALEIDOSCOPE – QUEER FILM AND PERFORMANCE ON TOUR 2023

As a part of Qaleidoscope Queer Film on Tour 2023,Qaleidoscope will feature Queer and QTBIPOC films that explore diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender and race.

WORKSHOP – Queering the Celluloid with Elian Mikkola

As a part of Qaleidoscope Queer Film on Tour 2023, a free workshop will be offered in
Winnipeg and Saskatoon.
This three-day workshop will be facilitated by experimental filmmaker and green
“scientist” Elian Mikkola.

Alexandra Elliott || Live Performed Improvisation

An ever changing group of dancers and musicians come together on First Fridays in the Exchange to perform live improvisation. Initiated in 2019 by studio partners Emma Dal Monte, Trevor Pick, and Alex Elliott, LPI is back. Live Performed Improvisation (LPI) invites you to The Output on December 2nd for an evening of reflection, gathering, and celebration. Alex would like to dedicate this performance to a Visual Artist she met through her Forever-Mentor Tedd Robinson. We really hope to see you there.

Being & Belonging – Day With(out) Art 2022

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is proud to partner with Visual Aids for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting BEING & BELONGING, a program of seven new videos centering the emotional reality of living with HIV today.

The program features new work by Clifford Prince King, Jaewon Kim, Mikiki, Davina “Dee” Conner & Karin Hayes, Camila Arce, Jhoel Zempoalteca & La Jerry, and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas & Santiago Lemus.

Scott Leroux Fund 2022 recipient || Valeri Marina

It is our pleasure to announce Valeri Marina as the 2022 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 SOUND ART.

Video Commission Residency 2022 screening

VP is excited to announce the screening of four new videos created by the recipients of the Video Commission Residency for 2022! VCR is a residency for the creation and exploration of experimental screen-based work.

Featuring new work by Warren Chan, Plutoe Ilunga, Sarah Boo, and Jaye Kovac, please join us for the premiere of these gorgeous new works.

The VCR Program ran from June 15 – August 15, 2022. The VCR program is a residency for the creation and exploration of experimental screen-based work.

A small gallery with seven speakers hanging from the ceiling, forming a circle in the middle of the gallery. The view is from behind the speaker circle.

There is a Point at Which Methods Devour Themselves || Pedro Oliveira

Video Pool Media Arts Centre has teamed up with Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound to present a multi-channel sound piece by Pedro Oliveira. “There is a Point at Which Methods Devour Themselves” (2020) is a multi-channel sound piece on the limits and failures of machine and human listening. Commissioned by the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt, DE).

BIPOC Tech Talk

Video Pool Media Arts Centre would like to make space for #2SQT+BIPOC / #BIPOC #designers #programmers #coders #musicians #videographers #photographers #dancers #creators & #artsadministrators to talk about #art&technology, how we use #technology to make #art, and the milieu that comes with that in #Winnipeg ;