Fuel your
Creative Spirit
Save the Date: October 3-12, 2025
Get your tickets now!
Fuel your
Creative Spirit
Save the Date: October 3-12, 2025
Get your tickets now!
Fuel your
Creative Spirit
Save the Date: October 3-12, 2025
Get your tickets now!
Fuel your
Creative Spirit
Save the Date: October 3-12, 2025
Get your tickets now!
Fuel your
Creative Spirit
Save the Date: October 3-12, 2025
Get your tickets now!

Signals Creative Tech Expo, Oct 3 - 12, 2025 | DigiBC Studio, Vancouver, BC

WHERE ART MEETS INNOVATION

Signals Creative Tech Expo Oct 3 - 12, 2025

Signals returns as an essential destination for storytelling with immersive and interactive technology. Co-presented by DigiBC and the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), this year’s expo from October 3-12 explores our connection to land, history, and human rights while confronting issues from authoritarianism to AI ethics.

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Exhibition Experience (Oct. 3 - 12)

📍DigiBC Creative Tech Studio, #160 – 577 Great Northern Way

Our newly expanded showcase presents 30+ groundbreaking projects spanning XR installations, AI-driven art, interactive performances, speculative futures and playful worlds. Visitors will explore interactive and immersive works that prioritize healing over extraction, connection over isolation, and human agency over algorithmic control.

Special Perfomaces

Live Performance: Game

A live, interactive performance where audiences direct an artist through Vancouver’s streets via real-time prompts, blurring the lines between player and observer, performance and play. This gamified exploration of agency and surveillance transforms public space into a dynamic stage.

Live Performance: Pop-up Carnival

An evening of spontaneous performances that activate the exhibition space, transforming installations into stages for unexpected encounters. Artists respond to and reimagine the showcased works through live interventions, creating a carnival of connection between performers, technology, and audiences.

XP INDIE BIZ CONNECT & BETA LOUNGE (October 3 & 4)

📍DigiBC Creative Tech Studio, #160 – 577 Great Northern Way

An exclusive two-day industry event featuring high-level discussions, strategic networking, and hands-on experiences with emerging creative technologies. Industry leaders, investors, and creators gather to explore funding opportunities, business development strategies, and the evolving landscape of XR, gaming, and AI. Get early access to cutting-edge projects, participate in expert panels on market trends, and connect with the innovators shaping the future of interactive media.

360° Cinema — October 4 & 5

📍 The Dome at HR MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut Street

Step into the dome and be surrounded by immersive Indigenous cinema that shifts perspective, challenges dominant narratives, and honors the interconnectedness of land, language, and story. These powerful works invite you to see the world as a living, breathing relationship.

Ełeghàà; All At Once
Casey Koyczan

Inspired by legends, our current climate and society, and imagined paths forward, this short film asks what our world was, what it is now, and how it might be in the future.

Ways of Knowing
Kayla Briët

An exploration of Navajo Nation’s health and tradition through its enduring encounter with uranium mining.

Wilfred Buck: Star Stories
Lisa Jackson & The Macronauts

This 21-minute XR work brings to life four star stories, gathered and told by renowned Ininew (Cree) astronomer/star knowledge expert and author Wilfred Buck.

Stories Woven in Light — IM4 Media Lab

IM4 Lab empowers Indigenous artists and storytellers in XR through training, productions, and exhibitions. Rooted in community, we celebrate Indigenous innovation and reimagine the past, present, and future—on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh, səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh, and xwməθkwəy̓əm Peoples.

IM4 Day — October 7

📍DigiBC Creative Tech Studio, #160 – 577 Great Northern Way

Hosted by IM4 Media Lab, this global gathering of Indigenous innovators explores how communities are building technologies rooted in cultural values—technologies that safeguard sovereignty, protect the planet, and ensure stories endure to guide generations. Hear from visionaries turning traditional teachings into tools for today’s most urgent challenges, from environmental stewardship to digital self-determination.