Programming – Page 2 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

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Temporal Landscapes

VP is excited to announce the ONE NIGHT ONLY gallery presentation of three new videos created by the recipients of the Video Commission Residency for 2025! VCR is a residency for the creation and exploration of experimental screen-based work.

Featuring new work by Zoë LeBrun, Ryan Hill & B.G-Osborne, please join us for the premiere of these gorgeous new works.

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.

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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 -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.

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.

World Building: Evan Tremblay & Mahlet Cuff MATR 2025

It is our pleasure to present a new two-person exhibit : World Building as Radical Imagination in partnership with TakeHome Art House featuring Evan Tremblay & Mahlet Cuff, part of the current Media Arts + Technology Residency. Opening Friday April 4, 7-10PM

Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration 2025 – 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.

A head and shoulders shot of the artist looking at the camera as she stands in front of her drawings. She has short brown hair, light skin and hazel eyes. She wears a black hoodie and, on her head, she wears a self described "neural fascinator" made of wire, thread, and knitting needles.

Beyond the Algorithm: An Artist Talk with Erika Jean Lincoln

This engaging talk is a chance to be inspired, spark curiosity, and explore the evolving intersection of disability arts with new media arts.

The potential for something truly extraordinary is here.

Media Arts + Technology Residency Recipients 2025

It is our pleasure to announce Evan Tremblay & Mahlet Cuff as the 2025 recipients of the Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR). MATR is designed to be a site-specific exploration of VP’s intimate Poolside Gallery where artists will respond to and utilize the gallery’s characteristics.
This edition of Media Art + Technology Residency of 2025 (MATR25) is in partnership with TakeHome BIPOC ArtHouse.

Media Arts + Technology Residency 2025- Call for Applications

Welcome to MATR 2025!

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce our first Media Art + Technology Residency of 2025 (MATR25) in partnership with TakeHome BIPOC ArtHouse.

The Media Art and Technology Residency (MATR) is designed to be a site-specific exploration of VP’s Poolside Gallery and its environs, where artists will develop and install a new work that responds to and utilizes the gallery’s characteristics. MATR specifically supports experimental, independent technology-based works and we welcome submissions that respond to the annual theme.