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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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……