Programming – Page 2 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

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 right” 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 VP’s intimate Poolside Gallery where artists will have up to six weeks to 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 focus on a large variety of mediums, approaches, and aesthetics.

AI-A-THON 2023

A Harbour Collective and Video Pool Media Arts Centre Artificial Intelligence (AI) LAB with facilitation and workshops, content creation and creative development.

The Life of a Party & Unraveling || Lee Jones & Greta Grip

It is our pleasure to share an update on Lee Jones and Greta Grip’s Media Art + Technology Residency that is wrapping up soon and will be showing from June 23 – September 15, 2023

Brady Allard-The Five Drones

The Five Drones is presented by Cluster Festival and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.
The Five Drones is an exploration of the concept of drones in modern society. The installation is inspired by the term drone–a continuous, low-pitched sound, and the various connotations of the word in popular culture. As I reflect on the world we live in, I am struck by the increasing reliance on AI, technology, and the potential consequences this may have for humanity.

i.o with Darcy Bunio

On May 19th, limitless percussionist i.o (Victoria) returns to The Output for a live collaboration with guitarist Darcy Bunio, following their stunning 2022 duet. Don’t miss this opportunity to see two of Canada’s finest improvisers working at the limits of their instruments, with a solo performance from i.o.

Valeri Marina || Assiniboine River and Red River speak

SHOW EXTENDED TO MAY 5TH!

A Presentation of the 2022 Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration

Where do the living memories of Assiniboine river and Red river float? Come to listen!

Active Research Lecture by Kegan McFadden

PLATFORM is excited to co-present this Active Research Lecture with Video Pool Media Arts Centre. In conjunction with the artist’s exhibition, A Sepearate Peace, McFadden will be presenting an Active Research Lecture on 21 April at 6PM at the Output. A Separate Peace is distrubuted by Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

Channel Surfing: Four Works from the Video Commission Residency

In 2022, Video Pool Media Arts Centre launched our first-ever Video Commission Residency (VCR). During the residency, VP commissioned 4 artists to create new works responding to the prompt of “channel surfing.” The artists selected were: Warren Chan (ON), Jaye Kovach (SK), Sarah Boo (ON), and pluetoe (MB) each of whom produced unique and clever perspectives on the theme. VP is pleased to present this program of their works, available to watch for free between March 21st – April 4th (2023)

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.