Residencies – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

SLFMAE 2026: Along the Red River on my Broken TV – Orima Bendisse

Part of the 2026 Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration.
VP is pleased to announce the one-night-only public presentation Along the Red River on my Broken TV by Orima Bendisse, recipient of the 2026 Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration.

Orima’s proposal for the residency centred on his longstanding interest in analog audio/video and the unique qualities it offers over digital image-making. As he describes it, analog A/V allows an image to be read slowly, frame by frame, in a way that digital cannot replicate; where digital is either there or not, analog can be split, stretched, and scrolled through with a different kind of physical feeling.

Media Arts + Technology Residency 2027- Call for Applications

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce our upcoming Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR). MATR specifically supports experimental, independent, technology-based works and we welcome member submissions that focus on a large variety of mediums, approaches, and aesthetics.

Video Commission Residency Vol.4 Recipients

VP is excited to announce that Herlinda Dalayoan, Christina Hajjar & Kaya Joan are the recipients of the Video Commission Residency for 2026!
Over the coming months, Herlinda Dalayoan, Christina Hajjar, and Kaya Joan will each develop new video works in response to this year’s theme, Attrition.

Video Commission Residency 2026 Application

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to announce the 4th Video Commission Residency, VCR Vol.4: Attrition. This residency supports the creation of new experimental screen-based works, inviting submissions from artists for a single-channel video responding to the theme of Attrition.

Attrition describes a condition shaped by sustained contact and duration, in images, in materials, in environments. Form and meaning change through processes that accumulate over time.

For this edition, artists are encouraged to consider how images and environments are worn down through use. Attention can move between the material image and the conditions that shape it. Surfaces erode. Signals weaken. Memory distorts. Landscapes, both physical and digital, carry traces of prolonged stress, circulation, and extraction.

Video Commission Residency 2026- Call for Submissions

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to announce the 4th Video Commission Residency, VCR Vol.4: Attrition. This program supports the commission of new experimental screen-based works, inviting submissions from artists for a single-channel video responding to the theme of Attrition.

Attrition describes a condition shaped by sustained contact and duration, in images, in materials, in environments. Form and meaning change through processes that accumulate over time.

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.

Orima Bendisse – Artist in Residence for SLFMAE 2026

Please Welcome Orima Bendisse to VP’s Scott Leroux Residency Program!

It is our pleasure to announce Orima Bendisse 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.

Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration + ACCESS A/V 2026 – Call for Submissions

The Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration (SLFMAE) is an annual residency focused on research and exploration.
In honour of Scott Leroux’s contribution to VP, we are creating an extension program of the Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration through a new access based A/V residency.

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.

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.