Vector
Festival
2025
July 10 – 20

Presented by InterAccess, Vector Festival 2025, 404_not_found, embraces the broken hyperlink, the loading screen, and the sharks biting undersea fiber-optic cables.


The 12th edition of Vector Festival, 404_not_found, will resurface our forgotten realities of the 1:1 relationship between digital representations of the physical. If we held close the understanding that our digital memories had physical footprints – motherboards that can corrode or servers that require maintenance – would we still expect immortality from the web? How can we build websites that are meant to decay, perennial files, or computers that are only awake with the sun? Can our machines teach us to celebrate impermanence?
Festival programming runs July 10 – 20, with most exhibitions on view until August 9.

IRL @ Toronto, ON


Centre for Culture and Technology
InterAccess
Liason of Independent Filmmakers



404_not_found
Flagship exhibition
July 10 - August 9
InterAccess
Server Incognito
Window Activation
July 10 - August 9 | LIFT
random access memories 
Game Art Residency Showcase
July 17 - 20 | Centre for Culture and Technology



CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT Festival Party
July 12 | 8-11pm | InterAccess
Marked for Disposal 
Flagship Performance
July 15 | 7-8:30pm | InterAccess
A London (ON) Invasion!
Screening & performance
July 20 | InterAccess
Canvas Conductor
Performance
July 18 | 7-10pm | InterAccess
"Between the Public and the Private": Vector Festival Game Art Residency Keynote with Min Sook Lee
June 14 | 6:30-8pm | InterAccess


WORKSHOPS

My Computer and I Watch Each Other
July 11 | InterAccess
Pocket Portal Power Play
July 13 | InterAccess
Ritual of Reuse
July 16 | InterAccess
Ephemeral Matter
July 19 | InterAccess
3D Scanned Portraiture
July 26 | InterAccess


About Vector Festival






Vector Festival is an experimental media arts festival 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 is proud to be a participatory and community-oriented initiative organized by InterAccess in Toronto, Ontario.

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.

Festival Archive

About InterAccess

InterAccess is an artist-run new media gallery, education facility, studio, and festival, dedicated to new media and emerging practices in art and technology. Annually, Interaccess executes multiple exhibitions, a full curriculum of skill-building and critical theory workshops, and a broad range of discursive events that explore the impact of technology on the social, political and cultural aspects of contemporary life.