AI Futures for Art and Design

Do we wanna be somebody

Part 2 of the series “Canada’s AI Strategy Forgot the Artists” If Part 1 was about why, this one is about what.

Oct 20 • 

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Canada’s AI Strategy Forgot the Artists

Dangerous mistake dudes

Oct 16 • 

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A Brief History of the Very Quickly

Because it’s October in Vancouver, the city is once again alive with the Signals Festival and VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival). Exactly a…

Oct 9 • 

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September 2025

Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen

When tools push back

Sep 9 • 

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Episode 3: When Machines Forget: A Dialogue with Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Read the interview here:

Sep 9 • 

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August 2025

What Lurks Inside Interactive Video

Today's gothic miracle

Aug 14 • 

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July 2025

The universe is giving Storm Troopers

AI is an engine for manifesting zeitgeist

Jul 24 • 

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June 2025

I was there

Where is our freakishly successful envelope-pushing cultural infrastructure that stretches underneath it all like an undulating electric field pulsing…

Jun 26 • 

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Unaddressed Contours on the Lot

Where are we on the Citizen Kane to Air Bud spectrum

Jun 5 • 

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May 2025

An Argument for Keeping Strange Strange

If you and your bathmat are the same, why read the Economist?

May 27 • 

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Messages from the Messages

Speak, Gown Constructed from Decades-Old Pink Plastic Bags, Hand-Cut and Wired to Resemble Feathers!

May 21 • 

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Thoughts on Immersive Media

Art that got kidnapped and forced to go on the road with the circus, but that came to love its captors

May 16 • 

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