Residencies – 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Video Commission Residency Vol.3 Recipients

VP is excited to announce that Zoë LeBrun, Ryan Hill and B.G-Osborne are the recipients of the Video Commission Residency for 2025! This residency supports the creation of new experimental screen-based works.

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

Video commission Residency Call for submissions

Video Commission Residency 2025- Call for Submissions

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to announce the 3rd Video Commission Residency, VCR Vol.3: Temporal Landscapes. 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 Temporal Landscapes.

For this edition, we encourage artists to explore the temporal representation of landscapes through the potential of digital media. Temporal Landscapes highlights the tension between time’s transient nature and the digital medium’s capacity to manipulate and distort temporal perception.

Video Commission Residency 2025 Application