Tag: Sound Art

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.

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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.
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A darkly lit room with acoustic treatment on the walls, containing a desk with two computer monitors, a midi controller, and a keyboard and mouse on it. A desk chair is tucked under it. There are 6 speakers surrounding the desk.

Tech News -May 2025

Meet the new suite! VP’s multi-channel suite has been IMPROVED and is now a full 8.1 A/V suite, meaning you can do mono, stereo, quad, octo, or any combo therein, plus you can still do your visual creating in there too!

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Media Arts + Technology Residency 2025- Call for Applications

Welcome to MATR 2025!

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.

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