Events
Upcoming event
Jul 12, 2025
VF25 | CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
What happens on a website when we can’t connect? Maybe behind the loading screen is: a party! Disconnect and reconnect with interactive artworks and performances that need your physical presence, IRL.
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Upcoming event
Jul 15, 2025
VF25 | Marked for Disposal
A performance and sound composition by SA Smythe that stages encounters through the anarchival—a somatic meditation on what cannot or should not be kept, and the pain and power in being mis/remembered
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Upcoming event
Jul 18, 2025
VF25 | Canvas Conductor
Canvas Conductor is an interdisciplinary instrument by musical and performance duo, Duo Cichorium, built and debuted in May 2024. It is a hybrid artistic tool that integrates a painter’s canvas with a custom built synthesizer and a suite of other digital musical technologies, giving four painters simultaneous control over sonic and visual output.
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Past event
Jan 27, 2022
Screening + Discussion — Primordial Dismemberment, Sadovnik (2021)
A virtual screening and discussion with artist duo Primordial Dismemberment (Thomas L. Archambault and Manolis Daris).
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Past event
Jan 19, 2022
Curator Talk — Sculpted in Our Image, Forged in Our Minds
Join emerging curator Tristan Sauer for a virtual tour and discussion of the virtual exhibition Sculpted in Our Image, Forged in Our Minds
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Past event
Nov 27, 2021
Reading Circle — Behind These Strange Sensations are Hidden Structures
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.
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Past event
Sep 29, 2021
Artist Talk: Tamiko Thiel
Tamiko Thiel considers the ways augmented reality can be used to evoke the past, visualize the future, and highlight underrepresented communities, histories, and cultures.
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Past event
Sep 25, 2021
Geofenced: Building and Rebuilding Mixed Realities
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.
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Past event
Aug 8, 2021
Screening — of ties and tethers
A screening program curated by Maria Alejandrina Coates and presented at Fort York in partnership with Toronto Outdoor Picture Show.
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Past event
Aug 6, 2021
Panel — Decode and Disrupt: The BIPOC Artist Experience Pre- & Post- Pandemic
A panel discussion on the dynamics of isolation and kinship in racialized creative communities.
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Past event
Aug 5, 2021
Performance — Meech Boakye, Wild Fermentation: Communal Hydration Ritual
Follow along with artist Meech Boakye as they process and fermet foraged and locally grown herbs, flowers, fruit, and honey.
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Past event
Aug 4, 2021
Panel — dis-ease Curator Tour + Discussion
A virtual tour of Vector Festival's 2021 flagship exhibition dis-ease followed by a discussion with the curator and artists.