Part of the 2025 Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration – Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce the one-night-only public presentation soul analog by Anthony Valade, recipient of the 2025 Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration. The presentation will open with an artist talk, presented in partnership with First Fridays.
Date: September 5, 2025
Time: 6:00 – 9 PM
Artist Talk: 6:00 – 7 PM
Location: The Output (2nd Floor, 100 Arthur St.)
During his residency, he began by hunting down and watching the original tutorial and introductory videos for the legacy video mixers. He then spent the majority of his time exploring the feedback loop effects of each mixer and how those loops were affected by sending the signals back into the mix using different styles and eras of video cameras and television monitors. Toward the end of each day, he would experiment with creating motion-activated effects by using parts of his body to further manipulate the feedback loop, often resulting in fantastic, unexpected visuals. He considers these explorations to have been very successful and plans to integrate his new findings into future projects.
Soul-Analog is an interactive art installation experiment/artist talk that integrates vintage/retro video technologies and cameras in tandem with human interaction to create active motion murals of the “Soul” in the image presented.
In between viewings, there will be live Analog VJ/video art demonstrations.
Please join us in VP’s Output Venue for an intimate opportunity to explore Anthony Valade’s research on the analogue video system.
