video commission residency 2026

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to announce the 4th Video Commission Residency, VCR Vol.4: Attrition. This commission program supports the creation of new experimental screen-based works, inviting submissions from artists for a single-channel video responding to the theme of Attrition.

Attrition describes a condition shaped by sustained contact and duration, in images, in materials, in environments. Form and meaning change through processes that accumulate over time.

For this edition, artists are encouraged to consider how images and environments are worn down through use. Attention can move between the material image and the conditions that shape it. Surfaces erode. Signals weaken. Memory distorts. Landscapes, both physical and digital, carry traces of prolonged stress, circulation, and extraction.

Artists may work with analog or digital processes, or move between both. Proposals should focus on how the accumulation of processes alters the visual, engaging feedback systems, compression, copying, translation, repeated handling, or other similar processes. Each iteration produces difference; each transfer leaves a trace.

Note: This program is commissioning new single-channel video works and does not require in-person attendance during the creation process.