VECTOR FESTIVAL 2025: Flagship Exhibition

Call for Submissions

What exists online will remain indexed forever—at least that’s what the ubiquity of the web might lead us to believe. But the digital realm we inhabit tells a different story: one populated with broken hyperlinks, dead websites, finite memory, and technology ceaselessly hurtling towards obsolescence. Rather than chase an imagined realm of digital immortality, what would it mean to give into the ecstatic euphoria of forgetting, with reverence for the deleted, the unarchived, and the unfound?

InterAccess is seeking submissions to Vector Festival’s 2025 flagship exhibition, curated by Dallas Fellini. The exhibition asks questions about notions of permanence associated with the web, considering how we might come to terms with the broken archival promises of digital media or begin to understand decay as a distinct but equal counterpart to growth. We invite artists working in new media to submit work engaging with digital decay, impermanence, the anti-archival, and the ephemeral qualities of digital memory.

Timeline

Application deadline: April 7, 2025
Exhibition dates: July 10 – August 9, 2025
Installation dates: June 30 – July 4, 2025
Artists are expected to be available for installation

Type of Artwork

New media artworks for a group exhibition installation.

Location

Vector Festival’s flagship exhibition is held on-site at InterAccess (32 Lisgar Street, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7).
Gallery floor plan is available upon request via email.

Fees

Vector Festival does not charge submission fees or provide production expenses. All artists selected for participation will receive fees in accordance with CARFAC and IMAA fee schedules, as well as support to apply for external funding.

Equity

InterAccess is committed to equity and strongly encourages applications from equity-deserving communities, including artists who are Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, LGBTQ-identified, Gender Diverse, Two-Spirit, and Persons with Disabilities. 

Contact

Please reach out to art@interaccess.org with any questions.