Exhibition and Event Archive – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Exhibition & Event Archive

Past Video Pool Media Arts Centre programming and events

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

Dreaming into Systems: Lakota Semiotics and AI – Suzanne Kite

YOU’RE INVITED – VP OPEN HOUSE

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

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

Smasher’s Bash Thanks!

Temporal Landscapes

VP’s Smasher’s Bash: Demolition in the Drayway!

SLFMAE 2025: Soul-Analog – Anthony Valade

bingenTV -Sophie Seita & Naomi Woo