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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…