Thursday, July 22 | 7—7:30 PM EST
Online via Instagram Live
FREE (no registration required) 

Hum: Drone Listening Walks are risograph printed zines poetically detailing resonant spots for audio, created by Tasman Richardson and Kristel Jax (Brigitte Bardon't). Readers are encouraged to walk to the sites on the map at their leisure and participate in a guided sound tour. For Vector Festival 2021, Hum has reissued Summer 2020's sold-out zine as a new special edition folding map complete with bonus resonant spots. Zines, printed in a limited edition of 100 copies, will be available from The Fix Coffee & Bikes, 80 Gladstone Ave, Toronto.

On July 22 at 7PM EST, tune into Instagram feeds @humzine and @interaccessTO for Palindrome, a dualistic live broadcast from Hum where resonant spots collaborate, become one, and appear again.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kristel Jax is a writer and artist based in Toronto. Her work traces the impossibility of a single narrative by channeling the ambiguity of perception and memory, and seeks to shift perspectives on the human experience in the digital era through emotion based story telling. Jax spent almost a decade riding Greyhounds and sleeping on couches, floors, and above doors. She now lives and works in Toronto, Canada with my mini pug Lana.

Tasman Richardson has exhibited extensively internationally. His primary practice consists of video collage using the JAWA method (The technique he pioneered in 1996), fully immersive media installations (Kali Yuga, Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal 2019, Toronto 2021), and live a/v performances (Singapore Art Week 2021). His themes to date have been a critical response to recordings which he dubbed "contemporary necromancy", social media as the panopticon realized, and the increasingly abstract human relationship to mediated space/time.

ABOUT VECTOR FESTIVAL

Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and workshops, Vector acts as a critical bridge between emergent digital platforms and new media art practice. The festival was founded in 2013 as the “Vector Game Art & New Media Festival” by an independent group of artists and curators: Skot Deeming, Clint Enns, kris kim, and Katie Micak, who were later joined by Diana Poulsen and Martin Zeilinger.