Saturday, June 14, 2025 | 6:30 – 8PM 
In person at InterAccess (32 Lisgar St, Toronto ON)
FREE, registration here

Join us to celebrate the beginning of the Vector Festival Game Art Residency with keynote speaker, Min Sook Lee, a critically-acclaimed documentary filmmaker and activist. Lee will speak on this year’s residency focus: exploring video games as authethnographic and autofictive practice.

The residency is curated by Bracy Appeikumoh and presented with the support of Hand Eye Society, Toronto Games Week, and the Centre for Culture and Technology at University of Toronto.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Min Sook Lee has directed numerous critically-acclaimed feature documentaries, including: Donald Brittain Gemini winner Tiger Spirit, Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature winner Hogtown, Gemini nominated El Contrato and Canadian Screen Award winner, The Real Inglorious Bastards.

Lee is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award, and the Alanis Obomsawin Award for Commitment to Community and Resistance. Canada’s oldest labour arts festival, Mayworks, has named the Min Sook Lee Labour Arts Award in her honour.

Lee’s most recent feature, Migrant Dreams tells the undertold story of migrant workers struggling against Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) that treats foreign workers as modern-day indentured labourers. In 2017, Migrant Dreams was awarded Best Labour Documentary by the Canadian Journalists Association and garnered the prestigious Canadian Hillman Prize which honours journalists whose work identifies important social and economic issues in Canada.

Lee is an Associate Professor at OCAD University, her area of research and art making focuses on counter hegemonic narratives of resistance, migrant justice, borderless worlds and feminist working-class cultural praxis.

ABOUT THE GAME ART RESIDENCY 

The game art residency supports the development of conceptual games for showcase with Vector Festival. Through their chosen gaming medium, residents will explore the 2025 curatorial theme of random access memories. This year's residency is supported by Hand Eye Society, Toronto Games Week, and the Centre for Culture and Technology at University of Toronto.

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.

Header image by Evangeline Y Brooks.