JULY 16-23, 2020
VECTOR FESTIVAL 2020: ONLINE EDITION

For the first time in its eight-year history, Vector Festival 2020 was presented fully online. This year’s digital programming explored themes of solitude, distanced interaction, digital art-making and curation, and the many new forms of community, solidarity, and care spawned by the challenges and promises of the current moment.

Vector Festival 2020: Online Edition was curated by Katie Micak and Martin Zeilinger.

For 8 days, over 60 artists participated in our virtual programming, which included:

2 exhibitions
1 screenings
6 performances
4 panel discussions, and
5 workshops.

Thank you to all of the artists, community partners, and devoted audience who made this year’s online edition of Vector Festival possible. We would also like to acknowledge the generous support of our funders: the Government of Canada, the Canada Council For The Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.

Links to Exhibitions and Events:

  • Online is the New IRL (Exhibition)
  • view recent changes (Exhibition)
  • Intern Purgatory: A COVID-19 VRChat Story (Performance)
  • A to Z Experimental Chatroom (Workshop)
  • #WatchingTogether in Spite of a Dying Planet (Screening)
  • False Positive (Performance)
  • Curating Online: In Conversation with Sarah Cook and Lorna Mills (Panel)
  • Resistance Strategies in the Age of Surveillance (Workshop)
  • Fermenting a Revolution (Workshop)
  • ishkwe-ayi’ii (Performance)
  • is this real life drawing + unstill life drawing (Performance)
  • The Virtual and the Viral: Digital Arts Practices (Panel)
  • Making Meme Art On Your Phone (Workshop)
  • Luna (Performance)
  • Goose Cakes (Artist Talk)
  • Anti-Racist Artist Networks: Emerging Forms Of Community, Solidarity, and Care (Panel)
  • A Queer Guide to GIF-Making (Workshop)
  • You Need Protocols: Working with Indigenous Culture in the Digital Realm (Panel)
  • Performance in Quarantine (Panel)
  • COVIDFASHION (Performance)