Ed Video is pleased to present an exhibition of 3 media art works created by undergraduate students of the University of Guelph’s Studio Art program for the 2025 Juried Art Show.

October 18 – October 31, 2025

46 Essex Street, Guelph ON

Reception: Monday, October 27th | 3-5PM

Gallery Hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
10AM – 5PM

WORKS:

Kayla Pryce – The So-Called Negro (2025)

This audio work is an exploration of the racialized language used to describe people of African descent within the Western Hemisphere. Voices recite and often repeat terms that have been both historically and presently used to label Black people. This focus on a particular subsection of the African diaspora reflects how language has been used to divide and control, sorting people by physical appearance and ancestry. During segregation, terms became markers that physically separated individuals and later evolved into labels, stereotypes and assumptions about character, worth, and belonging.

This collection of words highlights how Black individuals have been homogenized and reduced to a single racial identity saturated with prejudice. Within these terms, however, there are moments of reclamation and resilience. There are words that, while often negative, take on different meanings within the Black community. Familial terms like “brother” and “sister” denote kinship and unity within a forced separation. Ultimately, this audio piece invites listeners to sit with both the alienation and solidarity of this racialized language and to reflect on how these labels carry legacies of both suffering and strength.

Zoe Land – What In the World (2024)

This experimental video contains a digital collage including multiple blender animations of original and appropriated 3D scans, greenscreen footage of myself, and found footage. The video constructs a hybrid environment, where various sounds, objects, and locations coexist, further exploring how this manipulated environment interacts with each other. 

The work continues my exploration of humanity’s impulse to control and curate its environments. The video utilizes metaphors for human control, with the greenhouse as a controlled ecosystem; preserved specimens as life arrested for human study; and the nature documentary as an edited, idealized version of truth.

Crucially, the creation of the video itself embodies and critiques this theme. By manipulating and synthesizing these diverse visual and auditory elements, including appropriated media like space garbage scans and highly controlled documentary footage, I replicate the human practice of environmental control within the digital realm, highlighting the constructed nature of our perceived reality.

Matei Beu & Manny Brinton – The Culture (2025)

The initial idea behind this video was to explore the juxtaposition between police brutality and protests, both in past history and in recent times. Our concept evolved into something more open-ended and ambiguous. We drew inspiration from artist Arthur Jafa’s video titled LOVE IS THE MESSAGE, THE MESSAGE IS DEATH. We aimed to develop a similar raw and graphic approach using our own judgment and creativity. Kendrick Lamar’s song Reincarnated plays in the background throughout our video, chosen intentionally to enhance our vision of Black culture in Western society. Lamar raps from the perspective of musicians who have passed away, then shifts back to his own perspective, reflecting on his career as an artist. In the final verse, he has a one-on-one conversation with God, sharing the wonderful things he has done to help others while also expressing his feelings of conflict when God reveals to him where he has fallen short.This idea of reincarnation resonates in our video, as the monumental moments from history will continue to live on beyond our generation and into future ones. These moments will be reincarnated for the next person, who will bring forth their own interpretation and meaning, perpetuating an endless cycle of layered depth in the Black experience.