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Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence The Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence specializes in reimagining how things work in the world.

Summer shenanigans 😎 Too much fun to keep up with the posts! Two weeks ago, we had an amazing retro dance aerobics sessi...
09/01/2026

Summer shenanigans 😎 Too much fun to keep up with the posts! Two weeks ago, we had an amazing retro dance aerobics session in the park. We weren’t sure if people would participate, but retro tunes + fun moves turned out to be a real intergenerational crowd pleaser. 👯‍♀️ All kinds of passerbys jumped right in - walkers and all - including the Honourable Deputy Mayor Ausma Malik, who danced the whole workout! Thank you everyone in the community for the great sense of fun you all brought with you 🎶🕺

P.S. We’ve still got more community art workshops coming up, check our profile and the Events link in bio.

Helen Yung is giving a talk on Sept 15 with Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter on bioart and biotech capitalism.
08/24/2026

Helen Yung is giving a talk on Sept 15 with Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter on bioart and biotech capitalism.

🧫 🎨🔬On Sept 15 at 20h00 CEST, ᴀʀᴛ ʟᴀʙᴏʀᴀᴛᴏʀʏ ʙᴇʀʟɪɴ will present Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter and helen yung in an online Colloquium on the topic of Bodies of Value: Reproductive Biomaterials Between Art, Biotech, and Biocapital.

Human reproductive biomaterials, especially those sourced from AFAB (assigned female at birth) bodies are increasingly becoming hotbeds of scientific innovation, economic value, and political contestation. This colloquium will discuss how materials including human eggs, embryos, and menstrual stem cells have become entangled with biomedical research, commercial enterprise, and cultural narratives. In the colloquium session, artist and researcher Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter and artist and researcher Helen Yung, in conversation with Regine Rapp, will unpack how these biomaterials are simultaneously exploited and contested on social media, where viral feminist discourse, venture capital, biotechnology, and influencer culture converge to shape public understanding and the commercial desire fueling emerging bio economies. Through contemporary bio art and the complexities of IVF (In-vitro-fertilisation), Hunter and Yung will consider how they use artistic practice to challenge extractive narratives while instigating more socially conscious and nuanced futures for reproductive biotechnology.

Free, online. Link in bio to RSVP.

Conceptualized and curated by Regine Rapp , Colloquium is a discursive format on research in art, science and humanities.

ᴀʀᴛ ʟᴀʙᴏʀᴀᴛᴏʀʏ ʙᴇʀʟɪɴ is a Knowledge Partner with Art/In Forum.

Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter, PI is a research-group-in-residence with Art/In Forum.

Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter and helen yung are proud members of Art/In Forum.

We had a delightful time with Joe Lewis yesterday learning to upcycle old and discarded textiles. Big love to the interg...
08/15/2026

We had a delightful time with Joe Lewis yesterday learning to upcycle old and discarded textiles. Big love to the intergenerational humans who came - you’re da best! Joe returns for another weaving workshop next Friday, Aug 21, 4-6pm!

Drop by an hour earlier for a (gentle) 80s & 90s dance aerobics workout with the amazing Jen Hum.

Calendar: artisticintelligence.com/events

🎨 What a beautiful afternoon yesterday exploring hand-drawn lines. 🌱 Over several hours, several dozen people came by an...
08/08/2026

🎨 What a beautiful afternoon yesterday exploring hand-drawn lines. 🌱 Over several hours, several dozen people came by and contributed to an organic sense of belonging in a city that can sometimes feel lonely or aloof... Thank you to Anita Matusevics for the gentle, nourishing creative inspiration. We arrived, we listened, we drew, we inked, we painted, we experimented, we learned, we discussed, compared views, we connected, we became acquainted, and we made new friends. ☺️

Small Things: Hand-Drawn Lines - because comes in many forms.

Part of a new workshop series, Small Things: Tea, Teachings & Being Together, which explores the connections and relationships that emerge when people make something together… when communities gather in shared space… when we slow down enough to connect and journey together.

The Small Things workshop series is led by Indigenous and settler artists presented by Scadding Court Community Centre, Alexandra Park Neighbourhood Learning Centre, and Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence, with the support of the Toronto Arts Council. Curated by Helen Yung.

🎨 Join us! Small Things: Tea, Teachings & Being Together is a series of creative workshops led by Indigenous and settler...
08/05/2026

🎨 Join us! Small Things: Tea, Teachings & Being Together is a series of creative workshops led by Indigenous and settler artists taking place Scadding Court Community Centre starting this Friday, August 7 through to October 8, 2026.

“We land in abundance through art & stories.”

​Small Things explores the connections and relationships that emerge when intergenerational people make something together, when communities gather in shared space, when we slow down enough to connect and journey together.

Indulge in Hand-Drawn Lines with Anita Matusevics, Weaving Threads with Joe Lewis, Beading Stories with Catherine Blackburn, Making Ink with Heather Frise, and exploring Place-Based Art with Ange Loft.

Event link in bio and comments. Please RSVP.

Curated by helen yung. Presented with the support of Toronto Arts Council, Alexandra Park Neighbourhood Learning Centre, Scadding Court Community Centre and Lab for Artistic Intelligence.

First image: Photo and artwork by Catherine Blackburn, 2019.

Image descriptions under ALT TEXT.

Anita Matusevics is a multidisciplinary artist, bridging art, animation, architecture, and communication design. As an a...
07/28/2026

Anita Matusevics is a multidisciplinary artist, bridging art, animation, architecture, and communication design. As an artist, her practice is driven by histories of displacement and all forms of vibration.

Anita’s artistic work encompasses large scale graphite drawings, works on paper, animation and binaural soundscapes. Ultimately drawing serves as a way to represent how life is inscribed with histories, that take the form of lines, hints, scars and echoes.

Join Anita Matusevics on Fri August 7 at the gallery. From 4-6pm, Anita will host a free drop-in drawing session in the courtyard, open to all. Artist talk at 6:30pm, with refreshments before and after.

More about Anita:

Anita is a co-founder of Wonder Incorporated, a design practice dedicated to adaptability, resilience and innovation in design, and the Director and founder of the GDV Studio (graphic design and visual communication), launched in 2016, a rural design school within Fleming College and the Haliburton School of Art + Design. She has also held positions of sessional lecturer at the Daniels School of Architecture at the University of Toronto, and former Director of the Global Board of Contemporary Art, centred in Belgium, focused on supporting emerging contemporary art.

Anita is one of the original members of Bruce Mau Design, the Canadian studio that led the voice of international graphic design for over 2 decades. Her work there included collaborations with the architects Rem Koolhaas & Frank Gehry, curators Barbara Vanderlinden and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Danish/Canadian industrial designer Niels Bendtsen, the Vitra Design Museum, the Vitra Furniture Company, the MAK museum in Vienna, Maharam textiles in New York and many books and exhibitions. She holds a bachelors degrees in Psychology and Architecture (B.A and B. Arch), and a Masters Degree from the University of Edinburgh (M.Sc Digital Media).

06/19/2026

Wind 💨 stole our thunder… We were about to announce Anita Matusevics is our next artist-in-residence, but then nature and physics collaborated and made a new work out of our gallery window…

is under repair… when the technician arrives…. 👀

This one is the Deputy Mayor’s favourite 😊Thank you Ausma Malik for coming to see KSJ Art’s exhibition, Peace In Me, bef...
06/13/2026

This one is the Deputy Mayor’s favourite 😊Thank you Ausma Malik for coming to see KSJ Art’s exhibition, Peace In Me, before it closes this weekend. We appreciate your public service, and support of artists and artistic thinking. 🎨🧑‍🎨✨

COME MAKE WITH US. 🎨🖼️ This Wed June 3 at 1pm,  will be giving a short artist talk for an Indigenous group in the courty...
05/31/2026

COME MAKE WITH US. 🎨🖼️ This Wed June 3 at 1pm, will be giving a short artist talk for an Indigenous group in the courtyard . All are welcome to join. After the introduction to the exhibition, we will make some drawings / paintings. No experience necessary. ✨ Take a break from your work day and re-center through art-making and self-expression. ✨

707 Dundas St West
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Congratulations  on the beautiful opening yesterday! Thank you to all the enthusiastic people who came through, shared s...
05/17/2026

Congratulations on the beautiful opening yesterday! Thank you to all the enthusiastic people who came through, shared stories, and spoke to your own connections to the subject matter. Karina, we are so proud of you, and happy that your first solo exhibition has gotten off to a strong start! Gracias .ca para los chilaquiles y bebidas!

Peace In Me is, an exhibition by Karina Sanchez Jaimes curated by is on view until June 6.

Gallery open Wednesdays and Fridays 11-7pm.

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