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.

Creative Entrepreneurship

Automation: Rise of the Machine

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

Artificial Intelligence

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…

Arts & Creative Leadership

Creativity Through Automation

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

Photos and Short Stories

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…

Artificial Intelligence

Research: When AI Becomes a Team

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

Food Security and Innovation

Chicken Pot Pie Time

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

Creative Entrepreneurship

AI and the Arts

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

Arts & Creative Leadership

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.

Uncategorized

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.