Exhibition & Event Archive
Past Video Pool Media Arts Centre programming and events
Temporal Landscapes
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!
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
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.
Anthony Valade – Artist in Residence for SLFMAE 2025
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
Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration 2025 – Call for Submissions
SLFMAE offers $2000 for a one-month residency exploring a specific technology and related aesthetic approaches.
Beyond the Algorithm: An Artist Talk with Erika Jean Lincoln
The potential for something truly extraordinary is here.
Media Arts + Technology Residency Recipients 2025
This edition of Media Art + Technology Residency of 2025 (MATR25) is in partnership with TakeHome BIPOC ArtHouse.
Media Arts + Technology Residency 2025- Call for Applications
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce our first Media Art + Technology Residency of 2025 (MATR25) in partnership with TakeHome BIPOC ArtHouse.
The Media Art and Technology Residency (MATR) is designed to be a site-specific exploration of VP’s Poolside Gallery and its environs, where artists will develop and install a new work that responds to and utilizes the gallery’s characteristics. MATR specifically supports experimental, independent technology-based works and we welcome submissions that respond to the annual theme.