Artificial Intelligence

Artists Exploring Digital Arts, AI Tools and Technologies

Here we showcase groundbreaking initiatives that merge participatory arts with cutting-edge AI tools and 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. Discover how AI is helping us reimagine the arts and foster connections across Canada and beyond, one project at a time.

Northern AI, Youth, and Innovation: Stories Across Manitoba, Ontario, Nunavut & Minnesota

Designing the Future Multi-agent AI represents a new paradigm: one where creativity, reliability, and collaboration converge. These systems do not replace human imagination; they expand it, enabling us to tackle ambitious projects with confidence.

Multi-agent AI represents a new paradigm: one where creativity, reliability, and collaboration converge. These systems do not replace human imagination; they expand it, enabling us to tackle ambitious projects with confidence.

Designing the Future

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg 8 Nov 2025

Multi-agent workflows allow organizations to tackle larger projects.

Trust but Verify Imagine receiving a beautifully written chapter from a machine. It reads perfectly, flows naturally, and seems exactly what you asked for. But when you look closer, the word count is off, a key plot detail is inconsistent, or it accidentally repeats a name that should never appear. At this moment, you realize: just because the AI wrote it doesn’t mean it can be trusted blindly.

Imagine receiving a beautifully written chapter from a machine. It reads perfectly, flows naturally, and seems exactly what you asked for. But when you look closer, the word count is off, a key plot detail is inconsistent, or it accidentally repeats a name that should never appear. At this moment, you realize: just because the AI wrote it doesn’t mean it can be trusted blindly.

Trust but Verify

Jamie Bell 7 Nov 2025

AI models, particularly large language models, are probabilistic by design.

From Prompts to Plans all-our-analogue-ghosts

From Prompts to Plans

Jamie Bell 5 Nov 2025

At its core, dynamic prompt engineering is like compiling code from natural language.

E is for Environment

Across the vast, culturally rich landscapes of Northwestern Ontario and the broader Canadian North, a powerful creative movement is taking shape. From the intricate beadwork of the Anishinaabe and Dene to the striking sculptures of Inuit carvers and the digital art of a new generation, creativity in these regions has always been more than expression — it is storytelling, identity, and survival.

E is for Environment

Art Borups Corners 3 Nov 2025

How can your project honour the land, the water, and the air it depends on?

What Is an Agentic System?

When we talk about AI agents in popular culture, we often imagine something autonomous, almost sentient: a voice that understands us perfectly and acts on its own. But in reality, the kind of systems we’re exploring are far more precise, methodical, and controlled. They are stateful orchestration engines, designed to interpret human intent and transform it into structured, reliable outputs. In other words, they turn creative chaos into ordered, auditable data.

What Is an Agentic System?

Jamie Bell 3 Nov 2025

Human creativity is messy, full of nuance, and difficult for a machine to interpret directly.

A is for Advantage

A river of ideas flows through ECO-STAR North, where interdisciplinary arts, mixed-methodological AI research, and climate-focused entrepreneurship come together to shape meaningful Northern innovation.

A is for Advantage

Art Borups Corners 3 Nov 2025

To find your advantage, you need to know the landscape.

Introducing ECO-STAR North AI tools meet community research: a youth-built tool for designing ethical, participatory action projects with real impact.