New & Upcoming:

Lights On The Exchange

Festival Closing Night Event!

Taking place at The Output, join us for this closig night event for the Lights on the Exchange Festival, featuring 3 gorgeous A/V performances from four artists!

‘drawing Room -Lawrence Bird MATR 2024

It is our pleasure to present new work by Lawrence Bird, part of the current Media Arts + Technology Residency OPENING FRI Mar 15, 2024.

‘drawing Room explores aspects of “Withdrawal”, the last stage of VP’s Mid-life Crisis™ to be explored this year. The project deploys an array of moving images, audio, screens and technological remnants to collapse the distance between architecture and media, imagining Poolside gallery as a ground zero for future growth – expanding outward into adjacent spaces in Artspace, the city, and the world.

Job Posting: Education Contract

VP is seeking applications for an Education Program Development (EPD) contract position. The position will be the lead in developing a new HyFlex Learning (Hybrid/Flexible) educational program for VP and will include: HyFlex research and development, program conceptualization and development, instructor training and recruitment, grant-writing and funding research, partnership development, and technical implementation.

Mission Statement

Video Pool Media Arts Centre aims to inspire curiosity and creative expression through technological empowerment and open exploration in all media art forms, cultivating experimental artistic practices and accessibility to technology through presentation, production, distribution, and education. We house the largest collection of prairie video art in Canada, present work at the intersection of technology and art in our Poolside Gallery, and The Output, our A/V performance and rehearsal venue, provides new opportunities for performance based work.

VP is Manitoba’s only artist-run centre dedicated to the exploration of technology-based art.

We are located on Treaty 1 Territory in  Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Come visit us in the Artspace building, Unit 221 + 300, 100 Arthur St.