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.

Stories Over Coffee Stella's Cafe in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Stories Over Coffee

Jamie Bell 19 Dec 2025

At Stella’s on Portage, coffee, conversation, and curiosity fuel Winnipeg’s Living Lab experiments in storytelling and AI.

Winnipeg’s Union Station trains-via-rail-station-winnipeg

Winnipeg’s Union Station

Jamie Bell 17 Dec 2025

Step inside Winnipeg’s historic Union Station, where grand architecture meets over a century of railway stories and...

December in Winnipeg Winter is here

December in Winnipeg

Jamie Bell 10 Dec 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 8 Dec 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 8 Dec 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 8 Dec 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 28 Nov 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 23 Nov 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 14 Nov 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.