VAST LAB Inc.

Building community with experimental Visual, Audio, Story & Technology Arts. We host 6-8 shows each year spanning genre and medium.

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Founded in 2016 by Daniel Paul Bates in Los Angeles, CA THE VAST LAB is a Multi-Disciplinary Playground for Lovers, Learners, and Masters of the Visual, Audio, Story, and Technology Arts. In parallel to our programming, we host monthly Youth Labs connecting local students with working artists.

09/09/2026

Sorry for the delay friends. Here an excerpt from the AMAZING July 31 2026 Nireus LIVEscore of M. Woods Melencolia 5: Robitussin Memories - VLX7.5 Chicago

Thank you again to Nireus Doppelgänger M Woods 🙌🔥

07/31/2026

Tonight. VLX 7.5 at Elastic Arts.
13 experimental short films from 9 countries, select works scored live by Nireus. Doors 8:00, program 8:30
The last night of VLX 7 in Chicago. Come find us.
Free RSVP, link in bio.

07/30/2026

Thank you for last night.

A small room, a wall of light, the street still moving outside the window while the room sat still. VLX 7.4 at Material, select works scored live by Missing Piece.

One more, Chicago. VLX 7.5, Friday July 31 at Elastic Arts,
Nireus scores select works live. Doors 8:00, program 8:30. The last night of VLX 7 in Chicago. Free RSVP, link in bio.

07/24/2026

We saved you a seat.

VLX 7 comes to Chicago next week for two nights of international experimental film, select works scored live, the same weekend the rest of the city is at Lollapalooza.

VLX 7.4 · Wed Jul 29 · Material, Roscoe Village
12 films · 8 countries · LIVEscore by Missing Piece Missing Piece
Doors 7:30

VLX 7.5 · Fri Jul 31 · Elastic Arts, Avondale
11 films · 9 countries · LIVEscore by Nireus Nireus
Doors 8:00

Small rooms. Free RSVP. Get your seats, link in bio.

Elastic Arts Material

07/22/2026

Hanna Abrahamsson .abrahamson works where art meets ethnology. Trained at HDK-Valand Academy of the Arts in Gothenburg and in ethnology at Stockholm University, with a year of documentary film at Biskops Arnö, she brings a fieldworker's eye to the moving image.

Her work has shown across Sweden, from Galleri CC to Färgfabriken to Röda Sten Konsthall, and abroad, from Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen to galleries in Warsaw and Athens.

Her film joins VLX 7 in Chicago this month. Select works scored live, free RSVP, link in bio.

07/21/2026

David Witzling is a Milwaukee-based artist and educator, best known (or, as he'd put it, least known) for LHOHQ, a long-running anonymous web-art project. He's taught 16mm production, sound design, and Modernist cinema at UW-Milwaukee for over a decade, and his films have shown at Ann Arbor, the London Short Film Festival, and the Wisconsin Film Festival.

His work - Algorithmic Nudes Grapple with Entropy - screens at VLX 7.5,
Friday July 31 at , Avondale.
11 films, 9 countries, select works scored live by
Free RSVP, link in bio.

07/19/2026

Penny McCann is a
Canadian media artist whose body of work spans thirty years and encompasses both narrative and experimental films and video.
Penny's short Buses don't stop here anymore screens at
Material on July 29 as part of VLX
7.4.

The Night
VLX 7.4 is one night of experimental short film,
presented by VASTLab. Twelve films from eight
countries, with select works scored live by Chicago
duo Missing Piece (Dan Galat, violin; Kelly Quesada,
cello).

Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Doors 7:30 PM · Program 8:00 PM
Material · 2025 W. Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
(Roscoe Village)
30 seats
RSVP at vastlab.org

The Program
01 · How Do You Move In This World? — Brian Padian
(United States)
02 · Externalities — Dan McHale (United States)
03 · On a clear day you can see forever — Ian Haig
(Australia)
04 · The Dream Portal — Samuel Karow (United States)
05 · hurricane — Héctor Almeida (Cuba)
06 · London Quick City — Mark G Lonsdale (United
Kingdom)
07 · Buses don't stop here anymore — Penny McCann
(Canada)
08 · Sandia — Mélissa Faivre (Germany)
09 · Calibrating — Aby Isakov (United States)
10 · You're finally home — Hanna Viktoria
Abrahamsson (Sweden)
11 · Wherever Street Piece — Panu Johansson
(Finland)
12 · La noirceur souterraine des racines —
Charles-André Coderre (Canada)

Presented by VASTLab Experimental. Contact:
[email protected]

07/18/2026

Charles-André Coderre works in 16mm, hand-made and projected live. A member of Montreal's Double Négatif collective, he's built live 16mm projections for Jerusalem In My Heart, Jessica Moss, and others, and his films run through Light Cone (Paris), CFMDC (Toronto), and Vidéographe (Montréal).

Come see his film
La noirceur souterraine des racines / The subterranean blackness of roots
in Chicago at VLX 7.4
Wednesday, July 29 · Material · Roscoe Village.
12 films, 8 countries, select works scored live by Missing Piece.
Free RSVP, link in bio.

07/11/2026

Samuel Karow is a video artist based in Wisconsin. His short The Dream Portal is one of twelve international works screening at Material on July 29 as part of VLX 7.4, and one of the films Chicago duo Missing Piece (Dan Galat, violin; Kelly Quesada, cello) will score live in the room that night.
VLX 7.4 is one night of experimental short film, presented by VASTLab. Twelve films from eight countries, with select works scored live by Missing Piece.
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Doors 7:30 PM · Program 8:00 PM
Material · 2025 W. Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618 (Roscoe Village)
30 seats · Free with RSVP

RSVP at vastlab.org

The Program
01 · How Do You Move In This World? — Brian Padian (United States)
02 · Externalities — Dan McHale (United States)
03 · On a clear day you can see forever — Ian Haig (Australia)
04 · The Dream Portal — Samuel Karow (United States)
05 · hurricane — Héctor Almeida (Cuba)
06 · London Quick City — Mark G Lonsdale (United Kingdom)
07 · Buses don't stop here anymore — Penny McCann (Canada)
08 · Sandia — Mélissa Faivre (Germany)
09 · Calibrating — Aby Isakov (United States)
10 · You're finally home — Hanna Viktoria Abrahamsson (Sweden)
11 · Wherever Street Piece — Panu Johansson (Finland)
12 · La noirceur souterraine des racines — Charles-André Coderre (Canada)

Presented by VASTLab Experimental. Contact: [email protected]

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