Events

A panel discussion on the dynamics of isolation and kinship in racialized creative communities.

Follow along with artist Meech Boakye as they process and fermet foraged and locally grown herbs, flowers, fruit, and honey.

A virtual tour of Vector Festival's 2021 flagship exhibition 'dis-ease' followed by a discussion with the curator and artists.

Steve Saylor, Tiffany Witcher, and moderator Sandra Danilovic examine the design and development of accessible and inclusive digital games and gaming spaces.

Community-engaged digital artists Danielle Braitwaithe-Shirley and Kim Ninkuru discuss the possibilities of post-pandemic togetherness.

Hum presents a limited run of printed zines mapping resonant sounds audible on the streets of Toronto. Artists Tasman Richardson & Kristel Jax perform Palindrome, a dualistic broadcast mixing these sounds.

An outdoor screening curated by Theresa Wang offering interpretations of the connections that can be found within digital spaces.

A panel exploring the recent NFT (non-fungible token) craze and the merits of the blockchain as an artistic and activist medium

Kim Ninkuru inaugurates Vector Festival 2021 with hello, a participatory soft movement performance.

Join co-curators Sean Sandusky and Dana Snow for a tour of the virtual exhibition QUEERSPHERE

'keikobot' is an unscripted, improvisational digital performance where artist Keiko Hart roleplays as a chatbot.

Jeremy Bailey, Rah Eleh, Ziv Schneider, and moderator Tristan Sauer address the rising popularity of CGI social media influencers and the controversy of simulating identity online

A panel discussion on tool-making presented in partnership with the Art Gallery of York University.

Ananda Gabo, Keeley Haftner, Anastasiya Yatsuk, Sultana Zana and Megan MacLaurin discuss sustainable art making, biomaterials, and interspecies collaboration

Artists Kelly Heaton and Johann Diedrick will talk about their collaborative project, 'Deep Fake Birdsong' (2020), in which they explore the expressiveness of analog electronics to generate waveforms that sound surprisingly like real birds.

InterAccess is pleased to host a virtual Media Arts grant writing seminar with the Toronto Arts Council's Visual/Media Arts Officer Peter Kingstone.

InterAccess is pleased to host a virtual Media Arts grant writing workshop with Mark Haslam from the Ontario Arts Council.

Vector Festival's closing party, featuring the live participatory pageant COVIDFASHION followed by a virtual dance party!

Bringing together several contributors to this year's live performance segment of Vector Festival, on this panel we explore the new kinds of digitally-bound performance art and participative art that are developing at a moment when computers seem to have become the only means of being in the presence of others.

Meagan Byrne, Elijah Forbes and Taylor McArthur discuss unique problems presented when working with digital and Indigenous content.