Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative 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.
Vector Festival 2023: shadow work engages the formal and informal and mundane and arcane ways that classification systems attempt to contain the messy realities of our lives and shape our conditions. Confronting the work that both maintains and disrupts these systems, shadow work presents interventions on labour, the calculability of human life, the ungovernable, the echoes and reverberations of colonization and propositions for new, “life-giving” languages.
Programming details will continue to be announced! Check back here and follow up at @interaccessto for more updates.
shadow work | Flagship Exhibition
Curated by Mitra Fakhrashrafi
↗ July 6 - August 5
↗↗ InterAccess Gallery
Image courtesy of Imogen Clendinning: siliconsoul (2023), GIF
Toronto Games Week Showcase | Online Exhibition
Facilitated by Emily Koonce
↗ July 6 - 16
↗↗ Online gallery
Image courtesy of Emily Koonce
Anthropo-digitalism | GIF Exhibition
Curated by keiko Hart
↗ July 6 - 16
↗↗ Multi-Site
Image Courtesy of Sunny Nestler: Cone Worms Near Burrard Inlet
Worldbuilding Towards... | Participatory Game Jam
Curated by Bracy Appeikumoh
↗ July 7 - 16
↗↗ InterAccess Studio + Online
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Image Courtesy of Evangeline Y Brooks
a language of bodies | Screening
Curated by Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa
↗ July 12 | 8 PM
↗↗ Small World Music
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Image Courtesy of Jessica Arseneau: Solar
a LANpony LANparty | EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Curated by Ponyhaus
↗ July 14 | Doors: 7 PM | Music: 7:30 PM
↗↗ 918 Bathurst
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Image Courtesy of ponyHAUS
A Very Human Screening | Screening
Curated by Insomniac Film Festival
↗ July 15 | 9 PM
↗↗ Charles Street Video
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Image Courtesy of EGOTRIP PRODUCTIONS: PAYSAGE BUCOLIC
WE'RE ALL HERE IN TIME | ARTIST TALK
LED BY SWARM
↗ July 15 | 3 - 4:30 PM
↗↗ InterAccess Gallery
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Image courtesy of swarm
SinkInSync: Creating Interactive VR with Brainwave Data
Led by Tiange Wang and Xin Feng
↗ July 8 | 1 - 4 PM
↗↗ Remote via Zoom
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Image courtesy of Tiange Wang and Xin Feng
There is a Fruit Bowl: A Collaborative Experiment Creating Parallel Worlds
LED BY Kristine Buerano
↗ July 9 | 6 - 9 PM
↗ ↗ In-person at InterAccess
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UTOPICS | World Building: Labyrinths
Led by Geoffery Pugen
↗ July 13 | 6 - 9 PM
↗↗ In-person at InterAccess
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Image courtesy of Geoffery Pugen
Augmented Reality with Artivive
LED BY Sergiu Ardelean
↗ July 16 | 11 AM - 2 PM
↗ ↗ In-person at InterAccess
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Making a Solar-Server: DIY Web Design & Eco Media Art
Led by Imogen Clendinning
↗ July 22 | 1 - 4 PM
↗↗ In-person at InterAccess
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Image courtesy of Imogen Clendinning
Vector Festival Raffle
Tickets can be purchased in-person at InterAccess Gallery (950 Dupont St. Unit 1, Toronto) during the festival July 6 - 16.
Winners will be announced at the closing reception on July 16 and over social media.
Sponsors, Funders, and Partners
Vector would like to thank all of our sponsors and partners for their support of the 2023 Festival.
Special Thanks
Graphic design and visual identity by Emi Takahashi & Rebecca Wilkinson.
About the festival
Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative 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 was founded in 2013 as the “Vector Game Art & New Media Festival” by an independent group of artists and curators: Skot Deeming, Clint Enns, Christine Kim, and Katie Micak, who were later joined by Diana Poulsen and Martin Zeilinger.