Digital Distribution Platform Announced

Video Pool is excited to share the Canada Council for the Arts’ announcement of a 1.5 million dollar investment into a new digital distribution platform.
We are thrilled to be part of this amazing group of distributors who have been working so hard to get the platform off the ground to benefit Video Pool Members and the Media Arts Community at large.

International Women’s Day 2014

In celebration of International Women’s Day this Saturday, March 8, Video Pool was excited to share three works in our collection made by incredibly talented Manitoban women. Zuma by Sharon Alward, Super by Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan and Private Residence by Wendy Geller, were available online to watch over a 48 hour period.

Media X Screening

Media X is to disseminate contemporary Canadian media art in the form of screenings promoting emerging and experienced artists together. Media X’s current theme “Subversive Revolution” creates a compilation of video art provoking response and conversation on the infrastructures of the contemporary art world.

Skot Deeming (aka mrghosty) – Artist Talk

Join Skot Deeming (aka mrghosty) for a curatorial talk on the practice of curating games and game based artworks. Skot will briefly outline the history of the employment of video games in contemporary art practice and discuss his vision for the curation of such artworks.What condiserations must be made when selecting this kind of work? What are the spaces, critical and aesthetic concerns in curating video games and game art? This discussion will span the indie video game making scene, art games, video game modding practices, ROMhacking, bootlegs and more.

Apparatus – Andrew J. Milne

Apparatus is the construction of mechanism as ruin. It is a collection of decaying monuments that realize a historical vision of future utopias, dragging them back toward obsolescence, futility and critique. The exhibition commemorates a future where vision is total and simultaneous; where Cinema has eclipsed experience.