July 15 – August 8, 2021
The 9th annual Vector Festival, Network Dependencies, asks what post-isolation co-existence might look like, with the return to in-person activities on the horizon. The festival’s 2021 program explored new ways of being together, finding community, and sharing space through a four-week program of mail art dispatches, outdoor screenings, virtual workshops and discussions, and enactable participatory performances.
50 artists participated in our festival program, which included:
3 exhibitions
2 screenings
3 performances
5 panel discussions, and
5 workshops
Thank you to all of the artists, organizational partners, volunteers, and audience who made 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.
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS:
EXHIBITION: dis-ease 
EXHIBITION: Infinite Scroll 
EXHIBITION: Constellation of Oracles 
PANEL: Decode and Disrupt 
WORKSHOP: Cyborg Bodies Minecraft Creations 
WORKSHOP: Understanding & Hacking Facial Recognition Technologies 
WORKSHOP: Jane’s Walk Minecraft 
WORKSHOP: Place-making & Mapping Beyond Binaries 
WORKSHOP: Virtual Reality Life Drawing 
SCREENING: of ties and tethers 
SCREENING: Everything Worthwhile 
TALK: On digital connection, suppression, and memory 
PANEL: dis-ease Curator Tour + Discussion 
PANEL: Accessibility in Game Art 
PANEL: Blockchain Art and New Forms of Community-Building 
PERFORMANCE: hello 
PERFORMANCE: Wild Fermentation – Communal Hydration Ritual 
PERFORMANCE: Hum Drone Listening Walks & Palindrome