Events

2025 Media Arts Prize Finalist Jasmine Liaw presents a performance-as-research, expanding her experimental dance technology installation, "to name language".

2025 Media Arts Prize Finalist Marko Cindric reflects on how digital artists can mount effective critique of, and resistance to, tools with roots in the military-industrial complex and contemporary entanglements with control, surveillance, and extractivism.

Using static as a tool of resistance, multidisciplinary artist, instrument designer, and 2025 Media Arts Prize Finalist, Aliyah Aziz audibly extends the hidden sonic textures that exist underneath the perceived smoothness of our machines.

IA Current curator Talia Golland leads an in-depth tour of the group exhibition tangles, overlays, and lines drawn elsewhere.

A virtual book launch for Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age.

Kofi Oduro will show audiences how he uses open source code and algorithms to create works of image and sound

Calling all game artists! You’re invited to join Mark Haslam, Media Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council for a free online information session about the upcoming Media Artists Creation Projects funding opportunity. This session is tailored for game artists who are interested in gaining more information about the application process and requirements with an opportunity to ask questions directly to the funder.

Vector Festival is excited to announce its first-ever hybrid game and hardware jam, presented in partnership with Hand Eye Society.

Another Life is an evening showcase of experimental musical performances by Erin Corbett, Myriam Bleau, and Hex-A-Decimal centred around gaming, identity, and future feminisms.

Learn more about Vector Festival’s flagship exhibition, Machine Bodies (Is Cyborg Good or Evil?), in this in-depth discussion with artists Aljumaine Gayle, Madeleine Lychek, and Xuan Ye

A screening of video works by Peel-based artists that explore themes of fluid and amorphous identities, technology’s role in perpetuating harm, and imaginations of bodies beyond the binary.

Join us Friday, July 15 for The Glitch as a Remix, a screening program of music videos exploring glitch aesthetics.

Join us in celebrating the first night of Vector Festival and get the first look at our flagship exhibition, Machine Bodies (Is Cyborg Good or Evil?).

Come and enter 'The Play City' . A virtual world created by studio SPATIAL-ESK.

Heran Genene (UrDaughter.XYZ) is facilitating an opportunity to try virtual reality as a means of expression (instead of consumption!)

STYLY and InterAccess co-present an evening of artists talks and community gathering.

A discussion panel co-presented with Ada X on collecting, maintaining, and activating data within communities.

Join artist Casey Koyczan for an hour-long discussion on his artistic practice, past projects, and installation work Ełexiìtǫ ; Ehts’ǫǫ̀ / Connected ; Apart From Each Other.

A virtual screening and discussion with artist duo Primordial Dismemberment (Thomas L. Archambault and Manolis Daris).

Join emerging curator Tristan Sauer for a virtual tour and discussion of the virtual exhibition Sculpted in Our Image, Forged in Our Minds

Join artist Max Lester for a reading circle that will explore some of the central ideas and themes present in his exhibition Behind These Strange Sensations are Hidden Structures.

Tamiko Thiel considers the ways augmented reality can be used to evoke the past, visualize the future, and highlight underrepresented communities, histories, and cultures.

Scott Benesiinaabandan, Cat Bluemke, Jonathan Carroll, Adrienne Matheuszik, Jenn E Norton, and Karie Liao discuss the making of the exhibition Geofenced, and consider the contemporary applications and implications of AR technologies.