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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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?…