Highlights from the blog
Bodies of Value: Reproductive Biomaterials Between Art, Biotech, and Biocapital
Art Laboratory Berlin & Art/In Forum invite you to take part in Colloquium on Tuesday, Sept 15, 2026. Conceptualized and curated by Regine Rapp, Colloquium is a discursive format on research in art, science and humanities. "While researching, we often tend to shift between practical inquiry and theoretical research, browsing various disciplines. Following the original meaning of colloquium as 'speaking together,' we want to provide a platform for exchange and embrace various kinds of work…
Small Things: Weaving Threads
Photo: Textile Museum of Canada, 2024. “‘Wearability’ is not the end of life.” Learn how to transform old clothing and fabrics into new 'threads'! Join textile artist Joe Lewis for a workshop on weaving as a process of transformation, taking what exists and giving it new form. Participants will be guided on creating a woven (upcycled) textile piece, and have the option to take home their own cardboard loom. Workshop runs 4pm to 6pm on Aug 14, and Aug 21 at 707 Dundas St West, in the…
Join us for Tea, Teachings, and just Being Together
Come join us for tea, teachings, and just being together. Small Things: Tea, Teachings & Being Together is a series of creative workshops led by Indigenous and settler artists presented by Scadding Court Community Centre, and Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence, with the support of the Toronto Arts Council. Small things hold worlds: a greeting, a stitch made in time, a single stroke of colour, a courageous moment of connection, and the care to transform that which has been rejected or…
One Thousand Ways: Anita Matusevics in Residence at PS707
Early sketch investigation, Anita Matusevics, 2026. The Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence presents a large-scale drawing project by the artist Anita Matusevics, titled One Thousand Ways. Visit PS707 to witness the artist as she creates the installation with graphite, paper, beeswax and starched cotton. The creative practice of Anita Matusevics navigates the paths of displacement and the experience of diaspora. These are expressed as vibrations embodied within simple objects, memories,…
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 Industrial Design at Humber College, and helps her family run a Mexican food business at Scadding Court Community Centre. This exhibition features a series of paintings that Karina made last summer. Her intent is for people to understand that when they migrate, and when they bring kids along, those…
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 Intelligence evolve - from intersectoral residencies with new immigrants and refugees, to consulting and research collaborations with science, education, government, and nonprofits. Today, in 2026, the European Union is allocating 15 million euros for research projects in artistic intelligence... What…