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. ⊕

Congratulations to Vtape artists Bonnie Devine and Cheryl L’Hirondelle, who are among this year’s recipients of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts! ⊕

On Friday, March 26, 2021, all of program 8 will be made available, and curator Shalon Webber-Heffernan will be in conversation with artists Ursula Biemann, Shelley Niro, prOphecy sun, and Sharon Isaac at 7pm EDT on Zoom Live. ⊕