Programming 2025 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We’re At

VP is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 by presenting Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.

The program features new work by Camilo Tapia Flores, Camila Flores-Fernández, Hoàng Thái Anh, Kenneth Idongesit Usoro, José Luis Cortés, and Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto.

Chronicling the tunnel’s eternal return to debt – Bint Mbareh

Presented in partnership with Send + Receive: Festival of Sound, Chronicling the tunnel’s eternal return to debt conveys artist BINT Mbareh’s research on Palestinian ways of knowing to Treaty 1 territory. In this work, sound is both communicative content and a medium of passage, transgressing colonial borders and discrete bodies as a wave.

Smasher’s Bash Thanks!

Many thanks to everyone who came out to swing the bat, throw the dishes, sledge the hammer. Click continue reading to view slide show.

3 still images from the artists videos framed in pink outlines and a purple background

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.

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 -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

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.