Festival Closing Night Event!
Taking place at The Output, join us for this closig night event for the Lights on the Exchange Festival, featuring 3 gorgeous A/V performances from four artists!
Category: Programming (page 2)
âdrawing Room -Lawrence Bird MATR 2024
It is our pleasure to present new work by Lawrence Bird, part of the current Media Arts + Technology Residency OPENING FRI Mar 15, 2024.
âdrawing Room explores aspects of âWithdrawalâ, the last stage of VP’s Mid-life Crisis⢠to be explored this year. The project deploys an array of moving images, audio, screens and technological remnants to collapse the distance between architecture and media, imagining Poolside gallery as a ground zero for future growth – expanding outward into adjacent spaces in Artspace, the city, and the world.
Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration 2024 – Call for Submissions
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.
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 VPâs analogue video suite. The focus of the residency is reconstruction
Y2K Smasher’s Bash – Art works and Synopses
Here you’ll find the synopses of all the artworks in the Y2K Smasher’s Bash!
Y2K Smasher’s Bash Fundraiser
A VP Fundraiser for our NEW SPACE!
JOIN US on January 19th for VP’s Birthday Party fundraiser, closing out our 40th year of existence! The Y2K Smasher’s Bash will feature a cross-section of artwork from the VP collection from the 2000’s and 2010’s, music by Vav Jungle with DJ Beekeeni as well as VR games, and your chance to win prizes, including participating in the SMASHER’S BASH where you can vent your frustrations on selected items.
Media Arts + Technology Residency 2024 – Lawrence Bird
It is our pleasure to announce Lawrence Bird as the 2024 recipients of the Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR). MATR is designed to be a site-specific exploration of VPâs intimate Poolside Gallery where artists will respond to and utilize the galleryâs characteristics.
Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.
The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong), Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento (Brazil), Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines), Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria (USA), and Kurt Weston (USA).
VP40: Passion (The Early Years)
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is thrilled to announce our upcoming 40th-anniversary party Phase 2: Passion (the early years), taking place on September 22, 2023 and commemorating the organizations first two decades. Join us and get totally tubular with works from the archive, catered food, DJ’s, digital games and more!
Not Too Hot or Cold, Just right || Emmanuel OC Harry
Presented in partnership with Send + Receive: Festival of Sound
Not too hot or cold, just rightâ is a form of open invitation into a fertile atmosphere suitable for a dialogue between two personalities coexisting in one body. This dialogue is a brawl for understanding and not supremacy, leaving the viewer deeply immersed in an experience basked in euphoria. This exhibition explores the use of storytelling to arouse particular emotional responses such as joy, sadness, anger, frustration, and excitement from its viewers, setting a stage for self-reflection.
Media Arts + Technology Residency 2024- Call for Applications
Welcome to MATR 2024!
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce our upcoming Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR). MATR is designed to be a site-specific exploration of VPâs intimate Poolside Gallery where artists will have up to six weeks to develop and install a new work that responds to and utilizes the galleryâs characteristics. MATR specifically supports experimental, independent, technology-based works and we welcome submissions that focus on a large variety of mediums, approaches, and aesthetics.