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.
The Death of the “Admin Tax”
How AI Is Helping to Reclaim Creativity from Bureaucracy For decades, we’ve clung to a romantic picture of the writer: a lone figure hunched over…
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Creativity Through Automation
GenAI is helping us move our effort away from the grind and toward the purpose behind our work.
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The Warehouse
The Warehouse Church with Riverwood isn't just a place of worship; it's a dynamic, multi-site movement that has spectacularly reclaimed Winnipeg's Elmwood neighbourhood, one historic building at…
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Research: When AI Becomes a Team
In short, multi-agent AI is a shift from isolated generative tools to collaborative creative systems.
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Chicken Pot Pie Time
Our Manitoba cookbook is still growing. next up, hearty chicken pot pies to savour and share this season.
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AI and the Arts
In the end, the question isn’t whether AI can create art — it’s how we choose to use it.
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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.
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Beyond Text Generation
Imagine trying to produce a five-chapter story where each chapter has not only text but also illustrations, metadata, and references — all generated automatically.
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Trust but Verify
AI models, particularly large language models, are probabilistic by design.
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Recent Posts
- Painting Workshops
- Ten Years Later: All Grown Up
- Strong Stitches: A Community of Craft
- Mapping What We’ve Been Up To
- What Happens When Scrambled Research Meets Cognified Governance?
- Scrambled Research: Rethinking the Boxes We Put Research In
- Ribbon Skirts With a Story
- Canada’s Civic Engagement Is Fraying — And What Community Organizations Can Do About It
- From Tundra to Timberline: The Lasting Legacy of Labrador Tea
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