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Three tall, narrow, framed signs on a black background with vertical writing. The first sign says "MATR" the second says De (in blue)Press (in black) i (in blue) ON (in black). The third sign says 2023.

Media Arts + Technology Residency – Call for Applications

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce our upcoming Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR).

The theme for MATR this year will be (de)PRESS(i)ON, and is a part of a year-long program celebrating and exploring VP’s 40th anniversary, what we are referring to as our Mid-life Crisis™. The VP mid-life crisis™ series will feature programs from the six stages of a typical mid-life crisis: Denial, Passion; Replay, Depression, Withdrawal, and Acceptance.
For MATR, we are asking artists to “Press On” with us… to persist, continue and to advance technology-based art while delving into the past 4 decades of VP history.

Video Commission Residency 2022 screening

VP is excited to announce the screening of four new videos created by the recipients of the Video Commission Residency for 2022! VCR is a residency for the creation and exploration of experimental screen-based work.

Featuring new work by Warren Chan, Plutoe Ilunga, Sarah Boo, and Jaye Kovac, please join us for the premiere of these gorgeous new works.

The VCR Program ran from June 15 – August 15, 2022. The VCR program is a residency for the creation and exploration of experimental screen-based work.

Anna Costa e Silva Open Studio

Terremoto, Ubisoft, and Video Pool Media Arts Centre present a screening and open studio with Anna Costa e Silva, facilitated with local curator Mariana Muñoz Gomez. Costa e Silva is currently an artist in residence in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada through Terremoto x Ubisoft, working on various projects expanding her performative and media arts practice, collaborating with Ubisoft employees. Join us for a screening of her video tremor-tentativa | tremor-attempt, and a dialogue between the artist and Muñoz Gomez as Costa e Silva presents on previous artworks and works in progress. tremor-tentativa will also screen throughout the afternoon.

2022 Scott Leroux Fund Call for Applications

The Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration (SLFMAE) offers $2000 for a one-month residency exploring a specific technology and related aesthetic approaches. This year the residency will be focused on SOUND ART.

The SLFMAE Residency will run from Sept 26 – Oct 30, 2022.

Meghana Iyer | Garry st.

A Presentation of the 2022 Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration

During Meghana’s time in Winnipeg participating in the Scott Leroux residency, life was nothing but filled with chaotic adventures. As a first-time visitor to Winnipeg, the experiences she had were quite unique and proved to contribute to the works she was creating at Video Pool. From filming and exploring around downtown to spending late nights in the analog suite, every day was filled with special moments. Titled Garry St. this installation-based presentation will showcase multiple videos displayed through various screens such as projectors and CRTs of the different experimentation and filmmaking that was captured during the month-long residency.

Adrian cn Berry-Gold Cove ∈ RITUAL

Gold Cove ∈ RITUAL is a multi-channel video installation featuring the latest audio-visual collaboration
between AI entity RITUAL & art-pop performer Gold Cove. Blurring the disciplinary lines between
music video production, ethnofiction, and cinematic storytelling, Gold Cove ∈ RITUAL is a glimpse into
the future of cultural work through the eyes of surveillance capitalism. From whimsical visions of AI
fueled desire to technicolor, this project presents a vibrant collage-based animation and rhythmic visual
poetry constructed from videos found from deep within the Internet.

Video Commission Residency 2022 Recipients

Video Commission Residency 2022 Recipients VP is excited to announce that Warren Chan, Pluetoe Ilunga, Sarah Boo and Jaye Kovach are the recipients of the Video Commission Residency for 2022! VCR is a residency for the creation and exploration of…

Chukwudubem Ukaigwe | Tracing Currents

Originally developed from his Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration Residency, Tracing Currents is a new, immersive multi-channel installation that cites multiple degrees of casual and fleeting happenings. This work colligates both extensive and distinct records of Afro-diasporic mappings by means of juxtaposing ambient and evanescent videos of African life with documentations of Black families dining together in Canada.

REFRAME Outdoor Projection Exhibition

REFRAME is a temporary, localized large-scale outdoor exhibition taking place in the Exchange District from MARCH 23-27, 2022.

These projections bring video art out of the gallery and into the public realm, reframing questions of history and the future; of land and place; video frame and architectural frame; perspective; and cultural access.

In/On/Out Interarts Festival

Introducing Winnipeg’s first-ever IN/ON/OUT INTERARTS FESTIVAL from March 23-27, 2022, brought to you by Stephanie Morin Robert and Manufacturing Entertainment. The festival includes four days of projection mapping in The Exchange, performances at the Rachel Brown Theatre, a motion capture workshop at The Output, and live A/V in Artspaces drayway!