Vtape provides a variety of skills development opportunities through our professionally respected and varied educational placement programs. These programs provide access to contemporary and historical video materials and technologies, contemporary art forms, and critical discourse, in a supervised, artist-run environment. Our summer Collections Assessment Assistant program (in cooperation with the Canadian Museums Association and Young Canada Works), Curatorial Incubator program, and Research and Graduate Research Placements are designed as focused skills development programs for students enrolled in, or graduating from, post-secondary education, and for emerging artists and cultural workers.
Research Placements focus on identifying and adding critical writing to Vtape’s extensive and focused Critical Writing Index bibliographical database, which provides research materials on media arts for curators, critics, students, scholars, and other researchers.
Look out for the call for submissions for the Curatorial Incubator most years in the spring. And if you are eligible for the Young Canada Works Summer Jobs program, look for postings in April or May most years.