Jamie Bell

Jamie Bell is a Winnipeg-based interdisciplinary artist and strategist working at the intersection of media arts, community engagement, and public affairs. Among others, his work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, with a focus on participatory media, strategic communications, and arts-based collaboration across northern and urban contexts.

December in Winnipeg Winter is here

December in Winnipeg

Jamie Bell December 10, 2025

It's almost the end of the year.

Automation: Rise of the Machine AI tools meet community research: a youth-built tool for designing ethical, participatory action projects with real impact.

AI tools meet community research: a youth-built tool for designing ethical, participatory action projects with real impact.

Automation: Rise of the Machine

Jamie Bell December 8, 2025

It’s not just efficiency—it’s evolution.

The Death of the “Admin Tax” Multi-agent systems rely on specialist agents — AI systems dedicated to specific types of work. These can include text generation, image synthesis, data analysis, or even music composition. Each agent is designed to perform a narrow but complex task exceptionally well.

Multi-agent systems rely on specialist agents — AI systems dedicated to specific types of work. These can include text generation, image synthesis, data analysis, or even music composition. Each agent is designed to perform a narrow but complex task exceptionally well.

The Death of the “Admin Tax”

Jamie Bell December 8, 2025

How AI Is Helping to Reclaim Creativity from Bureaucracy For decades, we’ve clung to a romantic picture...

Creativity Through Automation Where the Pavement Gives Up

Creativity Through Automation

Jamie Bell December 8, 2025

GenAI is helping us move our effort away from the grind and toward the purpose behind our...

The Warehouse The Warehouse - Winnipeg

The Warehouse

Jamie Bell November 28, 2025

The Warehouse Church with Riverwood isn’t just a place of worship; it’s a dynamic, multi-site movement that has spectacularly...

Research: When AI Becomes a Team At its core, an AI “agent” is not sentient. It’s a system capable of perceiving its environment, planning a sequence of actions, and executing those actions to reach a goal. In a multi-agent system, these behaviors are distributed across the team.

At its core, an AI “agent” is not sentient. It’s a system capable of perceiving its environment, planning a sequence of actions, and executing those actions to reach a goal. In a multi-agent system, these behaviors are distributed across the team.

Research: When AI Becomes a Team

Jamie Bell November 23, 2025

In short, multi-agent AI is a shift from isolated generative tools to collaborative creative systems.

Chicken Pot Pie Time Golden, flaky crusts hide rich, savory fillings brimming with local ingredients. Each chicken pot pie tells a story.

Chicken Pot Pie Time

Jamie Bell November 14, 2025

Our Manitoba cookbook is still growing. next up, hearty chicken pot pies to savour and share this...

AI and the Arts Practical workflows are also changing the conversation. Artists are increasingly using AI to handle repetitive or large-scale tasks, freeing humans to focus on storytelling and interpretation.

Practical workflows are also changing the conversation. Artists are increasingly using AI to handle repetitive or large-scale tasks, freeing humans to focus on storytelling and interpretation.

AI and the Arts

Jamie Bell November 9, 2025

In the end, the question isn’t whether AI can create art — it’s how we choose to...

Agentic Design? So, Where’s the Art? It’s easy to look at these pipelines and think that what we’re building is engineering, not creativity.

Agentic Design? So, Where’s the Art?

Jamie Bell November 9, 2025

It’s easy to look at these pipelines and think that what we’re building is engineering, not creativity.

Beyond Text Generation In the early days of generative AI, models were asked to do one thing at a time: write text, generate an image, or produce a small piece of structured data. But real-world creative projects are complex: text, images, audio, and metadata must work together, often in sequence and sometimes in parallel.