Exhibition and Event Archive – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Will it Bow -Kerrigan & Gage Salnikowski

Will it Bow is presented by Cluster Festival and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

May 27 – August 1, 2026

Step into the living room—part set, part signal—as Will It Bow? unfolds in an uncanny broadcast. Channelling 1990s children’s TV and scored with analog synths, everyday objects are bowed and transformed. Equal parts instructional and deconstructional, the installation invites visitors to sit, follow along, and experiment with the hidden acoustics of the familiar.

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.

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.

Exhibition & Event Archive

Past Video Pool Media Arts Centre programming and events

Will it Bow -Kerrigan & Gage Salnikowski

Access AV Residency Recipients

Orima Bendisse – Artist in Residence for SLFMAE 2026

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