Events

A book launch and screening celebration of an anthology focused on the emergence of technological arts in post-war Brazil, featuring a panel with editors Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez. Books will be available at a discounted price during the event.

You’re invited to the community roundtable launch of Terra Firma: an online resource designed to support artists, cultural workers, and arts organizations engaging with community-based approaches to new media.

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.

In this panel speakers Geneviève Wallen, Fallon Simard, Ashley Jane Lewis, and Syrus Marcus Ware address the multidimensional, multiscalar registers of their care and community work.

Simon Fuh and Rowan Lynch's Goose Cakes is an attempt to learn more about the geese in our proximity in order to gift them a cupcake specific to their dietary needs and wants.

This panel brings together several artists contributing to this year’s festival, for a chance to introduce their work and discuss the challenges and opportunities of making art during a pandemic, connecting with art communities across digital divides, and other issues related to this year’s festival theme.

In two back-to-back participatory live-streamed performances, Keiko Hart reimagines the practice of life drawing.