+ CURATED BY BRACY APPEIKUMOH
+ FACILITATED BY DROQEN
July 18, 2024 | 12 – 7 PM
InterAccess Gallery (950 Dupont St., Toronto ON M6H 1Z2)
Reception: 7 – 9 PM
Our five gamemakers in residence have been hard at work making games exploring how technology has enriched/hindered pursuits for sexual intimacy and self-understanding; come join us in celebration, and play some games!
Sex, sexuality, and intimacy are difficult topics also because they are social – we come into our sexual selfhood in relation to one another and each person is their own universe with stars and planets and needs and desires. Social interactions, by their very nature, can be difficult to navigate because of the many variables when interacting with another person. Now, taking all this into consideration, how has technology created spaces for finding kinship but also allowed for gross misunderstandings?
What human idiosyncrasies and intricacies cannot be turned off or mediated by technology?
How does the internet help queer folks discover themselves sooner, and what happens when the imagery supporting this discovery is primarily pornographic?
What happens when certain marginalized bodies (trans bodies; sapphic bodies; queer bodies; Black, Brown, and Indigenous bodies of color; femme bodies; women’s bodies) are made hyper visible as a result of increased access to online pornography but not made visible within public life or only made visible in an attempt to police and punish those bodies?
Featuring Dahlia Bloomstone, Max Lander, Seb Pines, Casper Sutton-Fosman and Tamika Yamamoto.
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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.
