February 26, 2026
Innovation Led by Artistic Practice: HUPR Partners With Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence
HUPR's Piece of Mind, an arts-based knowledge translation of Parkinsons disease research, photographed at Atlanta Science Festival. Announcing A Strategic Partnership Between HUPR and Laboratory for…
August 6, 2025
Aligning City planning with living Indigenous traditions
Photo of presenters Ange Loft (Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence) and Jennifer Lafontaine (City of Toronto) alongside some workshop participants. How can municipal planning processes work in…
July 23, 2025
Poetic Assembly: An invitation to co-create a mobile poetry library
We’re calling on our community to help us co-create a mobile poetry library. Poetic Assembly is an interdisciplinary project and newly formed collective of cultural workers, united by a shared…
July 15, 2025
Look, Listen, Draw: A Collaborative Exploration of Nature, Place and Storytelling
Take a break and come draw with us. Wednesday, July 16, 2025. 10am - 1pm Friday, July 18, 2025. 4pm-6pm We are creating an “imaginary line,” an immersive and participatory drawing practice that…
June 9, 2025
Apply for a PlaySpace Residency
PlaySpace emerged in 2024 as a fledgling, innovative 'third space' for contemporary art, culture, and community engagement. Housed in an urban, floor-to-ceiling glass storefront shipping container…
June 4, 2025
Mystic Air: Coleman Hell’s ode to air conditioners
From June 4 to 11, 2025, artist-musician Coleman Hell presents an exhibition on air conditioners called Mystic Air... Join us for Coleman's exhibition opening, and the start of patio season, on…
May 17, 2025
Consultants & Researchers Program
Are you an artist wondering about how to get into consulting? Are you a PhD or Master's degree-holder in search of more than academia? Do you have layers of business consulting experience wrapped…
May 9, 2025
Introducing ART/IN Forum
Exciting update! The Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence has been working with Dr. Mary Elizabeth Luka at UTSC to develop the world's first international Forum for Artistic Intelligence, or ART/IN…
March 12, 2025
Elixir of Life: Alek Phan Reflects on Water
Under The Orange Sun by Alek Phan Trúc Artist Statement Nobel Prize-winning physicist C.V. Raman, who was awarded the prize in 1930 for his work on ‘the scattering of light”, once observed that we…
November 1, 2024
The Future of Funding at ELIA Biennial: Arts Plural
The Future of Funding 5pm - 6:30pm CET, Wednesday Nov 20, 2024 NABA Campus, Via Carlo Darwin, 20, Milan (Italy) In collaboration with ELIA and NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, the Laboratory for…
August 31, 2024
An Invitation with Returning River
The Returning River collective and the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence invite you for an art + community gathering in celebration of Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Free and open to…
August 14, 2024
Renaissance in Residence: Paper
Poster art by Renaissance, 2024. Photo courtesy of the artist. August 23-24, 2024, Toronto-based street artist Renaissance will be creating work in the Lab's PlaySpace. A micro-residency. Artist…
August 9, 2024
Nava Waxman working with Blue Gestures and other archival images
A short interview with artist Nava Waxman whose creative research is on view in the Lab's PlaySpace from August 9 to 23, 2024. Thank you for sharing your art with the public! How was it creating in…
July 15, 2024
Patio Party this Friday!
If you're in Toronto, drop by a Patio Party we're co-hosting in the courtyard at Scadding Court Community Centre (707 Dundas St W). It's a free, family-friendly outdoor event with a special…
June 13, 2024
Canada’s Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence To Headline European ELIA Biennial
Founding members of the innovative Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence have been invited to present plenary keynotes at this year’s ELIA Biennial Conference in Milan. Up to five hundred delegates…
June 7, 2024
Equity and inclusion for Black and racialized people in film and TV
The Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence (Lab) congratulates colleagues working in film and TV for the important CRTC news announced this week. On June 5, 2024, the Canadian Independent Screen Fund…
July 7, 2023
A ‘Cinq à Sept’ presentation on Reimagining Institutions
Hosted by Dancemakers and the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence, the Cinq à Sept reception features an overview of the past 18 months of artistic research that has been commissioned to inform the…
August 9, 2022
The Summer Issue
We've kept busy this year, working in a research and consulting capacity with many new clients and partners. There's also been art-making! Amy Hull has curated an evening program for Indigenous youth…
August 6, 2021
Summer update
Welcome to the Summer Issue This has been a busy, compact first half of the year. We have been hard at work on our arts and wellness research, collaborating with external research partners, and…
June 8, 2020
What Art Has To Offer Immigration
Media Release The Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence premieres a special 30-minute program on ‘What Art Has To Offer Immigration’ during Luminato Festival Toronto 2020 on Saturday June 13 at 1pm…
March 30, 2020
Exhibition Postponed
Announcement Several days ago, Luminato Festival Toronto announced that they are cancelling the 2020 edition of the Festival. The official announcement is available here. The names of all those who…
October 24, 2019
A new creative project for newcomer professionals struggling to secure first job in Canada
Press Release Toronto, October 24, 2019 – The Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence formally launches activities with its ‘Newcomer Innovations and Interventions’ project, setting out to hire 10…
October 3, 2019
Warm Responses to The Imagination Audit at re:publica Detroit
We presented a “snack-sized” version of The Imagination Audit at re:publica Detroit. Amazing participants! We laughed, we explored, everyone discovered new possibilities. Many thanks to our hosts,…
September 3, 2019
Art & Immigration
The Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence explores what Art has to offer Immigration, and other matters of public policy As climate breakdown progresses over the next decade, a major intersecting…