Been Here So Long is a partnership project between Reel Asian International Film Festival and Vtape that saw eight local artists commissioned to create new short films … ⊕

This survey of one of Canada’s premier new media artists includes photographs, projections, websites and moving image works that span time and space effortlessly. The centrepiece is Skawennati’s exquisitely crafted machinima She Falls For Ages (2017) that reimagines Creation from a very specific indigenous point of view.  ⊕

Artist’s talk, Friday October 20, 2017, 8:30pm Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor @401 Richmond St. W. The exhibition runs through October 21 Open Thursday, Oct. 19, 1-5pm; Friday, Oct. 20, 10am-noon & 5-9pm; and Saturday, Oct. 21, 12-5pm Skawennati’s talk… ⊕

This summer, Vtape is supporting Phase 1 of curator/scholar Andrea Fatona’s crucial research project the State of Blackness Database. Guided by Fatona (OCADU) and Vtape Artistic Director Lisa Steele, researcher Elisha Lim has been commissioned to compile data on Black… ⊕

“Hearing Video” is a project that is part exhibition, part archival research experiment. It explores and plays with a number of works drawn from Vtape’s archive holdings selected on the basis of their audio rather than their visual content. By… ⊕