We are pleased to announce that Aden Solway is the recipient of the 2022 The Researcher Is Present position. This will allow full support for his research project through the videos and printed material at Vtape throughout the first months of 2022, culminating in a project. ⊕

Vtape Video Play is a personal invitation to a series that features leading artists from different generations and cultural perspectives, who are among the most important artists working in video and digital imagery today. All of the titles represented have been closed-captioned for accessibility. ⊕

Vtape and Images Festival co-present “Safe Keeping: Vtape and the artists whose works live in our care,” curated by Kiera Boult and Dustin Lawrence, available for viewing here, May 27-June 9. ⊕

This year we commissioned Vtape artist Annapurna Kumar to animate our Vtape logo which will premiere a this year’s Images Festival! Annapurna Kumar is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose animated films are about the advancement of technology and the tension… ⊕

Please join us for a conversation with Vtape artist, filmmaker Glace Lawrence and critic, curator and thinker Sarah-Tai Black. This conversation will be followed by questions from special guests Cameron Bailey, artistic director and co-head of TIFF; Andrea Fatona, OCADU Professor and founder of State of Blackness Database, and others. ⊕