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VIVO Media Arts Centre (“VIVO”) is an intersectional settler-founded and operated organization located on the stolen, sacred and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Incorporated as Satellite Video Exchange Society (“SVES”), VIVO acts as an agent for emergent experimental media arts practices. Our programs foster formal and critical approaches to media arts and reflect the diversity of contemporary technologies and communities that coalesce around new forms of knowledge and creativity. VIVO builds an engaged audience through workshops, production support, distribution, artist residencies, performances and exhibitions, and curatorial and archival research. We also attend to a significant and substantial repository of media art history. VIVO uniquely facilitates and fosters regional artistic practices through these activities and our extensive archival resources.
VIVO’s vision is that everyone has the means and agency to creatively question and participate in their mediated worlds.
VIVO’s mission is to nurture past, present, and future media arts discourses and communities through equitable and public access to resources for preservation, production, and dissemination.
The DS4Y Artist Residency will be a twenty-six-week paid residency working and creating alongside the Core Staff at VIVO Media Arts and an outside Mentor. VIVO will work with the artist to secure a Mentor based on the artist's needs. This will be an excellent opportunity for someone to build their digital skill sets through this residency, including media art production and production for programming, media art archiving, and distribution services. We are looking for dynamic proposals that can leverage the equipment and technology we have at VIVO, the expertise of VIVO’s Core Staff, and the Mentor you need.
VIVO has everything an artist needs to realize a media arts project or program from start to finish: current and vintage gear, a production studio, a media lab with current software, a digitization hub, and a research archive. During the twenty-six weeks, we can provide access to technology, space, and the right people to support the residency project from inception through the creative process. We can offer hands-on experience using different equipment, from high-end cameras and vintage video equipment to audio and lighting equipment to video, music or sound editing.
This residency overlaps with our fall and winter programming, allowing you to participate in producing and delivering all the programming we offer. This will include several digital
exhibitions by independent artists, an experimental sound/ music festival, a VR/XR conference, and a publication launch event on creative accessibility in art.
During the residency, the person will also have the option of working closely with our distribution manager to learn about the distribution side of media arts, how artists’ works get into festivals and galleries, and how we connect with and attract artists for distribution. You will also support the Archive through the CollectiveAccess project and learn about archival data entry and management. The Core Staff will offer experience and orientation in VIVO’s operations, including arts administration, technical learning, and events production.
This position is funded by the Government of Canada.
You are not expected to have a fully realized project/piece or work at the end of this residency; instead, you are expected to have built digital skills, explored your art practice, and participated in operating an arts-run centre like VIVO Media Arts.
At VIVO, we recognize the value of paid and unpaid work experience and transferable skills and knowledge.
This is a list of requirements for the residency
Other skills and knowledge we are looking for:
The DS4Y Artist Residency is a hybrid role at VIVO Media Arts Centre. At VIVO’s office, they will be exposed to noise and a regular flow of people.
Moderate lifting (up to 30 pounds) may be required on an occasional basis.
We are in a shared building, so we cannot guarantee a scent-free space. However, we aim to have a scent-reduced space. If you have specific questions relating to the accessibility of our space, please email Carla Ritchie, General Manager, at admin@vivomediaarts.com.
All candidates are asked to submit a resume and a one-page proposal outlining what they would like to learn or what skills they want to gain through this residency. If there is a Mentor you would like to work with, please include that in your proposal. You do not need a Mentor; VIVO will support recruiting someone. Applications will be regularly reviewed. The posting will remain open until September 6, 2024 @ 5:00 PM.
Please submit your application to admin@vivomediaarts.com with the subject line: “DS4Y Artist Residency.”
Meetings will occur the week of September 9, 2024. All candidates will be notified about the state of their application. If you have any questions, please email Carla Ritchie, General Manager, at admin@vivomediaarts.com.
VIVO Media Arts Centre is making ongoing efforts to improve the accessibility of 2625 Kaslo
St. A wheelchair ramp is located on the west side of the main entrance. There is a gender-neutral washroom with a 33-inch entrance and handrail. More information is available at www.vivomediaarts.com/venue-accessibility. If there are ways we can support the accessibility of the application process or understanding of accessibility practices at VIVO, please contact Carla Ritchie, General Manager, at admin@vivomediaarts.com.
Applicants will be considered for employment equity: VIVO values the contributions that individuals who identify as members of marginalized communities bring to our organization. We encourage, among others, Indigenous People, IBPOC people, people with disabilities, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI, formerly incarcerated or institutionalized people, recent immigrants, and people from working-class backgrounds to apply. We also understand that applicants may experience several of these identities simultaneously in ways that reinforce and nuance their experience. We are committed to creating an organization as diverse as the communities we serve.
Applicants who identify in these intersections will be considered for employment equity.
Interested in being an instructor at VIVO? We are always accepting proposals for media arts workshops in technology, theory, process, or whatever might be relevant to media artists in Vancouver. Please email VIVO’s education coordinator (education@vivomediaarts.com) with the subject: Workshop Proposal to find out if there is a potential fit.
VIVO is committed to providing training opportunities in the various aspects of media arts as it relates to artist-run culture. We are always in need of loyal volunteers to work in specific departments. Volunteers that commit to a regular weekly schedule for a minimum of 3 months earn Video Bucks (transferable for equipment and suite rental costs) and a Basic Producer Membership.