Exhibition & Event Archive
Past Video Pool Media Arts Centre programming and events
Lights On The Exchange
Taking place at The Output, join us for this closig night event for the Lights on the Exchange Festival, featuring 3 gorgeous A/V performances from four artists!
âdrawing Room -Lawrence Bird MATR 2024
âdrawing Room explores aspects of âWithdrawalâ, the last stage of VP’s Mid-life Crisis⢠to be explored this year. The project deploys an array of moving images, audio, screens and technological remnants to collapse the distance between architecture and media, imagining Poolside gallery as a ground zero for future growth – expanding outward into adjacent spaces in Artspace, the city, and the world.
Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration 2024 – Call for Submissions
SLFMAE offers $2000 for a one-month residency exploring a specific technology and related aesthetic approaches.
This is a Site specific Research based residency of VPâs analogue video suite. The focus of the residency is reconstruction
Y2K Smasher’s Bash – Art works and Synopses
Y2K Smasher’s Bash Fundraiser
JOIN US on January 19th for VP’s Birthday Party fundraiser, closing out our 40th year of existence! The Y2K Smasher’s Bash will feature a cross-section of artwork from the VP collection from the 2000’s and 2010’s, music by Vav Jungle with DJ Beekeeni as well as VR games, and your chance to win prizes, including participating in the SMASHER’S BASH where you can vent your frustrations on selected items.
Media Arts + Technology Residency 2024 – Lawrence Bird
Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick
The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong), Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento (Brazil), Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines), Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria (USA), and Kurt Weston (USA).
VP40: Passion (The Early Years)
Not Too Hot or Cold, Just right || Emmanuel OC Harry
Presented in partnership with Send + Receive: Festival of Sound
Not too hot or cold, just rightâ is a form of open invitation into a fertile atmosphere suitable for a dialogue between two personalities coexisting in one body. This dialogue is a brawl for understanding and not supremacy, leaving the viewer deeply immersed in an experience basked in euphoria. This exhibition explores the use of storytelling to arouse particular emotional responses such as joy, sadness, anger, frustration, and excitement from its viewers, setting a stage for self-reflection.
Media Arts + Technology Residency 2024- Call for Applications
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce our upcoming Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR). MATR is designed to be a site-specific exploration of VPâs intimate Poolside Gallery where artists will have up to six weeks to develop and install a new work that responds to and utilizes the galleryâs characteristics. MATR specifically supports experimental, independent, technology-based works and we welcome submissions that focus on a large variety of mediums, approaches, and aesthetics.