Media Arts + Technology Residency 2025 Recipient
Evan Tremblay & Mahlet Cuff
It is our pleasure to announce Evan Tremblay & Mahlet Cuff as the 2025 recipients of the Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR). MATR is designed to be a site-specific exploration of VP’s intimate Poolside Gallery where artists will respond to and utilize the gallery’s characteristics.
This edition of Media Art + Technology Residency of 2025 (MATR25) is in partnership with TakeHome BIPOC ArtHouse.
This edition of MATR is dedicated to supporting BIPOC artists by providing mentorship for the creative development of new work. With a specific focus on projection mapping, artists are invited to explore the theme of “World Building as Radical Imagination”, and to envision and prototype alternate realities that challenge current and conventional boundaries, offering transformative perspectives on society, environment, and human connection.
About the Artist
Evan Tremblay
Evan Tremblay is a Red River Métis artist driven by an ongoing process of land-based learning, his practice explores themes of trade, translation, and dwelling at scales ranging from the micro topographies of lichen to the lifecycles of the land. Blending landscape analysis and custom-programmed interactive digital components, his work is consciously oriented towards the enaction of rituals for the reversal of entropy, and the cultivation of a budding Indigenous futurism. Manitoba-based, he moves seasonally between the former city of St. Boniface and the Riding/Duck Mountain regions.
Evan earned his Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Manitoba, from which he also holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Design. For his practicum work on the subject of 'A Landform-based Approach to Noogenesis', he was awarded both the Department of Landscape Architecture Graduate Fellowship and the university-wide Masters Award for Indigenous Students. This research was carried forward as Light Sculptures, supported through a Research + Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2023, Li Graan Bwaa (Michif for ‘forest’) was awarded a Concept to Realization grant, also from the Canada Council for the Arts to deploy this research as a working installation at the Soupstock Festival of Arts and Music in Whitemouth, MB.
Ongoing projects include Land Beads, a video series which chronicles his apprenticeship as a Métis harvester, Forest Studio, a process-driven series of exchanges with Vancouver-based artist Alyssa Schwann, and Roogaroo (Michif for ‘werewolf’), a cycle of gatherings and interactive sculptural systems exploring the link between the regeneration of Michif and land-based trade networks.
Mahlet Cuff
Mahlet Cuff is a AfroCaribbean queer femme born and based in Winnipeg Manitoba (Treaty 1). They are an interdisciplinary artist, curator, filmmaker, arts cultural worker, writer, film programmer, DJ, performance and sound artist. Using DJing as a method of space making they place their intentions with blending various genres as a way to create their own worlds, building and rebuilding to transform dancefloors as a site for liberation. Making the dancefloor a space for dreaming and to think beyond what a dancefloor can do, be or look like. As a Black queer femme, and wanting to be able to be in conversation with the 2SQTBIPOC audience that they are playing for. They use critical fabulation as a way to fill in the gaps where the erasure of Blackness when it comes to genres such as house, electronic and techno.