Programming 2026 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Access AV Residency Recipients

VP is excited to announce that Thomas Toews, Paul Gubernachuk, Shivanya Ra, Leaf Pankratz & Mystery Byrd are the recipients of the Access AV Residency Recipients for 2026!

In keeping with the spirit of the Scott Leroux fund’s focus on exploration and research, VP’s Access AV Residency provides up to five artists with 60 hours of self-directed access to the analog-focused Adventure Lab. This program expands our commitment to research, experimentation, and sustained engagement with technologies, prioritizing process driven exploration over the production of finished works.

Dreaming into Systems: Lakota Semiotics and AI – Suzanne Kite

Centered on dreaming as a method of knowledge production, Suzanne Kite’s work develops symbolic systems drawn from Lakota cosmology and long-term dream research, translating them into visual, performative, and computational forms. Kite will discuss this process through a semiotic lens, focusing on how meaning moves from dream worlds into material, digital, and generative systems. Across sculpture, video, and performance, the presentation examines AI as a medium through which Indigenous symbolic knowledge is carried, transformed, and taught within contemporary art and research contexts.

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YOU’RE INVITED – VP OPEN HOUSE

Think you know Video Pool Media Arts Centre? Think again. Get ready to be surprised at our first-ever Annual Open House on February 13, 2026, from 2–6 PM. VP has been busy—really busy—with bold upgrades, fresh renovations, and powerful new tools, and we can’t wait to show you what’s new.