May 7, 2026
Peace In Me: A Solo Exhibition by Karina Sanchez Jaimes
What I Left Behind, a painting by Karina Sanchez Jaimes, 2025. Karina Sanchez Jaimes was born in Toluca, Mexico. At the age of 10, she and her family immigrated to Canada. Today, she is studying…
March 8, 2026
FILL YOUR CUP: Gather with women physicists, poets, and policy advisors
Happy International Women's Day. Come gather with women physicists, poets, and policy advisors... For those of you who have been with us since 2019, you've watched the Laboratory for Artistic…
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…
January 17, 2026
On Dismantling & Weaving New From Old: “‘Wearability’ is not the end of life” – An Artist Statement By Joe Lewis
Artist Joe Lewis holds up an embroidery sampler on a dismantled pillow case (27.94 cm X 223.52 cm). Artist Statement Having learned to turn old bed sheets into braided rugs at the age of three, I was…
November 23, 2025
Rainbow Circle: An Augmented Reality Comic Book Project by Cynthia Undyantara
YOUR PHONE IS A PORTAL. Wander by PS707 and use your cellphone to unlock a rich Augmented Reality experience. As winter approaches, PS707 switches over to primarily function as a window gallery. Stop…
October 17, 2025
Immortal Spirits: A Halloween Fundraiser & Farewell Party at CSI Annex
Social change requires social and cultural infrastructure, which is a fancy way of saying change happens when people come together with care around art, community, and making special. The Lab's…
October 16, 2025
The Drawing Forest: A 5-Hour Drawing Exercise by Heather Frise and Anita Matusevics
Interview with artists Heather Frise & Anita Matusevics 1. What inspired you to want to draw with others? what led to this impulse of co-creating large scale drawings with community and…
October 16, 2025
MULTIfest: Toronto’s first-ever experiential art festival
Yesterday Toronto's very first week-long MULTIfest was launched at Stack Market by the Lab's very own Tom Kuo and Alex Martin. Featuring 10+ interactive art installations on view daily, 6+…
September 18, 2025
UNESCO Mondiacult Event Sept 24, 2025
ART/IN Forum is honoured to host a special UNESCO Mondiacult 2025 event online on Sept 24, 2025, at 12:30 PM ET called, Artistic Intelligence: Shoring up resourceful and resilient cultures. This is…
September 14, 2025
Origins & Endings: Photography by Sebastian Portillo
Reflections from the artist Origins & Endings brings together two projects: Notes on Biology and The Day I Destroyed the World, both collections developed with support from the Ministry…
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 18, 2025
AI in Relationships: New research exploration led by Zemina Meghji
Humans are dependent and shaped by the ebbs and flows of our relational ties: human-to-human; human-to-animals; human-to-Source. Healthy connections have been shown to enrich the human experience,…
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…
January 6, 2025
Winter greetings & a call for proposals
Hello, New Year. My winter break began with a solstice gathering for which I was wholly unprepared. We were given a prompt about Light, and somehow other people in this gathering were hopeful,…
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 17, 2024
Longing Belonging Redux
Poster art by Kwoi Gin We're proud to launch our new home with a poster art series by artist Kwoi Gin. Longing Belonging Redux is a vivid, powerful assemblage of tableaux vivant dealing with…
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 25, 2024
What TCM has to offer Indigenous Science
Some reflections from artist Helen Yung: Last month, Dr. Melanie Goodchild, founder of the new Indigenous Knowledge Lab at Agoma University, invited the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence to…
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…
August 24, 2023
Suggested Readings: Art + Migration
From time to time, Azada Rahi, the Lab's Resident Librarian prepares a bibliography of resources on various topics. This one is on Art and Migration. Let us know if you find this resource list…
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…
December 30, 2021
Let’s have a meal together in the New Year
What a year. Are you happy, and is this a holiday for you? May this week before the New Year offer a generous combination of rest and salve for your soul. I will not recap 2021 in this holiday…
September 10, 2021
Decolonizing RDM
To decolonize Research Data Management (RDM) is to commit to preventing further harms and trying to undo or repair previous colonial violence. With the support of Compute Ontario and the University…
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…
January 11, 2021
What is Creative Morning Practice?
Developed by the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence, Creative Morning Practice is a 6-week virtual guided arts program to support health and wellness, and mitigate the effects of stress, loneliness…
December 31, 2020
Making possible, making visible
On the other side of the world, it's already 2021. In these transitional hours between 2020 and 2021, many of us are thinking about the lives we've lived these past twelve months. The joys, the…
November 20, 2020
The Imagination Audit
Chief Artistic Officer Helen Yung discussing The Imagination Audit at republica Detroit, 2019. What are ‘diverse ways of thinking?’ How can artistic intelligence help leaders produce innovative,…
August 19, 2020
Thinking Forward On Immigration: A Public Report To The IRCC On Modernizing Immigration
It's ready! The public version of our recommendations to the Department of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship of Canada is now available. Download your copy of Thinking Forward On Immigration……
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…
March 25, 2020
Gone Virtual: Taking Our Creation Practice Online
Newsletter On Monday, March 9, we entered the Meridian Arts Centre to begin the first day of a 3-week creation residency supported by TO Live. On Friday, March 13, we received an email at 6:55 PM…
February 27, 2020
Impact Evaluation for the Arts in Kingston Ontario
Workshop On Saturday, March 7, Helen Yung, Chief Artistic Officer of the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence will teach a special half-day workshop on Impact Evaluation for the Arts at the Tett…
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 26, 2019
The role of artists in evidence-based policymaking
Earlier this year, we gave a presentation at The Mowat NFP’s Innovations in Evidence conference at the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The presentation was enthusiastically received by participants,…
September 17, 2019
What is artistic intelligence?
We’ve only just started using our new name, the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence. Already the questions are rolling in. What does ‘artistic intelligence’ mean? Why a lab? What will we do?…
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…