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…
March 11, 2022
Bonding over food, culture and conversations: How Sharada Eswar’s Akhara brings communities together
The first Akhara of 2022, a pandemic-induced virtual affair, coincided with Pongal, the ancient harvest festival of Tamil Nadu—some 13,300 km away from the suburb of Toronto where Sharada Eswar, the…
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…
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…