Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Welcome to our Arts and Artificial Intelligence News Page, where we showcase groundbreaking initiatives that merge participatory arts with cutting-edge AI technologies. With support from the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, our projects are transforming how communities engage with the arts, advancing efforts in mental health, resilience, and equity. With activities spanning Winnipeg, Borups Corners, and Minneapolis, this space highlights the power of AI to empower artists, researchers, and communities to push creative boundaries. From enhancing storytelling and music to developing new ways to support community programming, like food security and climate change, we’re driving meaningful change and innovation. Discover how AI is helping us reimagine the arts and foster connections across Canada and beyond, one project at a time.

Digital Salvage is a Winnipeg-based arts collective and non-profit supporting community-rooted media, gallery, and digital art projects across Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. We offer mentorship, access to digital tools, and space for experimentation—especially where art, artificial intelligence, and cultural storytelling intersect. Through exhibitions, workshops, and collaborations, Digital Salvage builds creative infrastructure for emerging artists, Indigenous creators, and grassroots organizers working at the edges of art and technology.

Where Policy Ends and the Machine Begins

It ghosts through institutional memory, seeping into the cracks of bureaucracy, rewriting the script of policy with machine-touched hands. It does not answer questions—it reconfigures process, dissolving rigid workflows into liquid intelligence, bending the weight of administrative inertia into something fluid, responsive, alive.

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Jamie Bell April 3, 2025

Building from the Ground Up

The Digital Salvage project is inherently grassroots in nature—modeled intentionally after frameworks common within innovative technology startups, small arts and culture-driven organizations, and highly community-based development programs.

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Digital Salvage April 1, 2025
This project supported relationship development, consultation, and engagement actions to explore participatory food security research and food sector training opportunities with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Creative Entrepreneurship program. It supported research design to attract research investment to Manitoba and was led by youth from the Winnipeg-based Art Borups Corners project.

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Digital Salvage is structured intentionally as an inclusive and interdisciplinary Arts-based Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) initiative, bringing together youth from northern regions and diverse creative communities in active co-creation of a powerful new technological resource.

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Digital Salvage April 1, 2025

Digital Salvage: The ChatBot Plugin

Digital Salvage is an innovative digital initiative designed around the concept of creative reuse and renewal. Drawing thoughtfully from various elements derived from past research,

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Digital Salvage April 1, 2025
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