EVENT: VECTOR FESTIVAL 2022 (JULY 14 - 22 2022, TORONTO, CANADA + ONLINE)
VECTOR FESTIVAL 2022: GLITCH
July 14 – 24, 2022
Inter/Access
950 Dupont St., Unit 1.
Toronto ON M6H 1Z2 Canada
InterAccess is pleased to announce the program for Vector Festival 2022: Glitch. This year’s festival centres around the enticing, joyous, infinite possibilities offered by glitch. Drawing inspiration from Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism the festival considers glitch as a necessary, protective force for interrupting the machinic workings of patriarchy, capitalism, and racism. Counterintuitively, through its multitudinal ruptures and refusals, glitch becomes a generative site for envisioning new ways of existing beyond current sociopolitical operating systems.
Through a hybrid online and in-person program of exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, talks, and community events, this 10-day festival invites artists and audiences to come together in celebration of failure and all its potentials.
All Vector Festival events will be offered for free or pay-what-you-can. Registration for all festival events will be released on July 4, 2022.
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.Among the highlights are VECTOR's first-ever hybrid game and hardware jam, presented in partnership with Hand Eye Society and TRANZAC, an evening showcase of experimental musical performances by Erin Corbett, Myriam Bleau, and Hex-A-Decimal centred around gaming, identity, and future feminisms curated by Sofie Mikhaylova. Also not to be missed is Keep it Strange, a beginner’s workshop will delve into a buffet of tiny experimental programs that require little to no coding experience, such as Flickgame, Sok Worlds, and Bitsy. LINK
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, kris kim, and Katie Micak, who were later joined by Diana Poulsen and Martin Zeilinger.