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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.
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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…
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Building from the Ground Up
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Beyond ChatGPT—Integrating AI into Organizational Workflow and Policy
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Beyond ChatGPT—Integrating AI into Organizational Workflow and Policy

At its surface, Digital Salvage might seem to present merely a "custom GPT experience"—a tailored implementation of OpenAI's conversational technology embedded into a WordPress platform.…
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Digital Salvage: The ChatBot Plugin
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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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Say goodbye to expensive WordPress contact form plugins. Embrace AI tools and vibe coding to create dynamic, simple contact forms effortlessly and for free!
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Create a Simple WordPress Contact Form Plugin With AI and Vibe Coding. For Free!

Create Free Wordpress Plug-Ins with AI Tools and Vibe Coding These days having a contact form is essential for any website. Yet, many struggle with…
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We learned how to use audio visualizers using GPT 4 Turbo (GPT 4.5) and Javascript. It was lots of fun!
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Vibe Coding with AI: How Artists Are Taking Control of Code

Vibe coding is simple at its core: You describe what you want to make. You give instructions the same way you'd tell a friend what…
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Integrate OpenAI API into Google Sheets for Enhanced Productivity
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Integrating the OpenAI API into Google Sheets

Supercharge Google Sheets with built-in AI for streamlined data analysis, dynamic text generation, and enhanced productivity—all in one place.
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Learn how to make a 3D music visualizer developed using three.js. Bouncing equalizer bars, orbiting camera, and cosmic stars merge sound and art.
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Interstellar Beats: Visualizing Music in a 3D Space

Learn how to make a 3D music visualizer developed using three.js. Bouncing equalizer bars, orbiting camera, and cosmic stars merge sound and art.
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Forget straight lines. Forget hierarchies. The universe is a messy, interconnected, rhizomatic masterpiece waiting to be explored. Join us as we delve into the revolutionary ideas of smooth spaces and cosmic artisans, guided by the visionary work of the Nomadic Detective Agency.

Diving into the Deep End: Are You Ready for Rhizomes, Cosmic Artisans, and Smooth Spaces?

Ever feel like the world is way more interconnected and fluid than it seems? Like there's a hidden web of connections running beneath the surface,…
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Autonomous Operation

Digital Salvage explores the use of digital archiving, artificial intelligence, data organization, publishing systems, and content preservation technologies to support heritage and community storytelling. The project serves as a practical learning environment where participants develop skills in digital literacy, research, content management, automation, archival practices, and emerging technologies while creating lasting public value.

Acknowledgements

This project was an activity piloted with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse in 2022. We thank them for their support.

Experimental Futures

Digital Salvage explores the long-term relationship between technology, creativity, memory, and knowledge. The project examines what happens when information systems continue to evolve beyond their original creators, creating new opportunities for autonomous research, publishing, cultural preservation, and digital stewardship.

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