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New technologies give artists more ways to approach familiar creative challenges, but the most useful tools are those that respond to real needs. Our work examines how recording equipment, audio software and AI-assisted processes can fit into practical production workflows without losing sight of artistic intention. The aim is to make more approaches possible, leaving creators better equipped to decide how their work should sound and reach an audience.
Technology

Making Better Audiobooks: The Technology Behind Professional Audio Production

Our program is developing practical audiobook workflows that combine human narration, AI-assisted audio, editing and accessible digital publishing.
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Experimental audio production: Exploring the creative possibilities of digital narration, audio technology and new approaches to producing long-form spoken content through hands-on experimentation and independent tool development.
Technology

Storytelling: What Happens When We Build Our Own Narration Tools?

An experimental arts entrepreneurship project exploring text-to-speech technology, digital skills and independent creative production.
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The snow will fall soon, but these lupines are still growing. Covered in beautiful drops of water, they're among our favourite flowers.
Photos and Short Stories

Gravity and Glass

Look closely at the delicate balance between green fronds and water drops after a heavy morning rainstorm.
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Community isn't always about being in the same room at the same time. It's the encouragement, shared ideas, small acts of kindness and willingness to pitch in that keep people connected, even when life takes them in different directions.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Happy Thanksgiving!

From community gardens to creative technology, we're looking ahead to fall and winter while wishing everyone a peaceful Thanksgiving weekend.
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Sometimes the best way to understand technology is to build something yourself. Bush Chess gave us an opportunity to experiment with algorithms, test ideas and see how small changes in the code affect the way a computer plays.
Artificial Intelligence

Experiments: Using Classical AI Instead of an LLM

Learn how Bush Chess uses algorithms, search trees and mathematical evaluation to make strategic decisions without a large language model.
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The D&AD report hit on something a lot of people have been feeling. The industry still wants strong creative judgement but keeps cutting the exact roles where that judgement used to develop. Juniors used to learn by doing the smaller tasks and watching seniors. Those tasks got automated and a lot of the jobs disappeared with them.
Creative Entrepreneurship

AI Ate the Junior Roles and Left a Weird Gap

AI took the repetitive work juniors used to do. Now taste and curation matter more from day one.
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A close-up view of Manitoba maple leaves glowing in vivid pink and deep crimson tones under the crisp autumn light.
Winnipeg

Forget Muted Yellows: The Manitoba Maple’s Autumn Transformation

Exploring Winnipeg’s autumn streets as Manitoba maple trees turn brilliant shades of crimson, pink, and fiery red.
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Games are some of the most effective classrooms for understanding digital logic and user experience design. By breaking chess down into state changes, coordinates, and feedback loops, we turned abstract coding concepts into something immediately tangible and fun to play with.
Community Projects

Bush Chess

Bush Chess blends art, code, and game logic. Read our weekend lab notes and take the prototype for a spin!
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Pausing on our walk back downtown to capture the alien beauty of one of Canada’s most striking architectural achievements.
Winnipeg

The Spaceship in Our Backyard

A crisp autumn walk through Winnipeg’s Forks turned into a moment of awe at the alien-like CMHR structures.
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This week we continued our fall and winter exploration of code and game design with a simple hunting game called "Caribou Hunt." You can play it online now!
Community Projects

Chasing Northern Lights and Code: Caribou Hunt

Step inside our fall digital arts program and try Caribou Hunt, our brand-new browser-based northern expedition game.
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In Music

Jukebox In Exile is the new country music album from Flin Flon singer-songwriter C.C. Trubiak, blending classic country, honky-tonk, Americana and traditional storytelling into a collection of songs inspired by resilience, community and life in Northern Manitoba. Written during and after the 2025 Flin Flon wildfire evacuation, the album draws influence from country music legends including Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and George Jones. Featuring the singles "Old Country Songs," "Being Rich" and the charting track "Outlaws Meditation," Jukebox In Exile showcases Trubiak's signature songwriting while celebrating small-town life, northern Canadian culture, queer country music and the enduring spirit of Flin Flon. The album is available now on major music streaming platforms.
Manitoba's own C.C. Trubiak's new album "Jukebox in Exile" dropped on June 5! Check it out!

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Upcoming Events

The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!
The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!

WINNIPEG ARTS PROGRAMS

This platform, our Winnipeg, Manitoba hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Arts Incubator was seeded and piloted with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. We thank them for their investment, supporting northern arts capacity building and bringing the arts to life.

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NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS

This platform, our Northwestern Ontario hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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