MAKING TOMORROW'S CULTURE TODAY

Artengine is an artist-run futurelab that brings together artists, designers, technologists, and researchers to explore the social impacts of emerging technologies through collaborative learning and production.

Flutterings/Papillonnements

01/05/2025

Flutterings/Papillonnements: Bridging Science and Art to Foster Biodiversity Conservation

Valérie’s project aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between conservation biology and the arts, raising awareness about the pressing need to protect biodiversity in an era of change. Through a residency with Artengine, and in collaboration with Dr. Heather Kharouba, Valérie has created an experience that fuses art and technology. This collaboration presents an exciting opportunity to amplify the important role that art can play in raising awareness about biodiversity conservation, while engaging audiences in technological innovations fostered by Artengine.

New Suns

09/09/2024

a worldbuilding lab for radical futures

NEW SUNS is a collective worldbuilding laboratory that brings together an interdisciplinary group of creatives to explore radical futures through art and speculative fiction.

GroupChat

19/09/2024

Evenings of great work and interesting conversation.

So often with interesting art works, particularly those at the edge of different disciplines, we need to talk about what we saw or heard or experienced. Our new programming series, GroupChat combines the fun of checking out something new with a engaging discussion. It’s like a book club for artworks.

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TouchDesigner Meet Up

Artengine TouchDesigner Meetup: Collaborative Session Join us at Artengine on Wednesday, June 25th at 6:30 PM for our next informal TouchDesigner meetup! This gathering is all about collaboration, problem-solving, and shared inspiration. …

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TouchDesigner Meetup: Artist Talk Edition with Michaela van Beinum

Join us at Artengine on Wednesday, May 22nd at 6:30 PM for a TouchDesigner Meetup with Michaela van Beinum (MVB creates)! This event welcomes everyone, especially media artists interested in exploring interactive technology. Michaela, an abstract artist and electrical engineer, will take us “under the hood” of her captivating TouchDesigner project…

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TouchDesigner Meetup

April 16th 2025 For this edition of our TouchDesigner MeetUp we have invited a number of local artists to show us under the hood of their TouchDesigner projects….

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Flutterings / Papillonnements

Join us for the opening of Flutterings, a residency showcase exploring the delicate relationship between humans and insects. This work memorializes monarch butterflies and invites reflection on the fragility of life and the urgent need for sustainable cohabitation with more-than-humans….

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TouchDesigner Meetup: MediaPipe Workshop

Join us for an interactive TouchDesigner meetup, where we’ll explore the powerful capabilities of the Free Motion Tracking plugin using MediaPipe for Face, Hand, and Pose Tracking. This session is perfect for creators who want to integrate real-time motion tracking into their projects using TouchDesigner and MediaPipe, an open-source machine learni…

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Interspecies Communication

Cheryl L’Hirondelle presents the process and ideas behind her new work Nipawiwin Akikodjiwan: Pimizi ohci, shown for the first time as part of our Entanglements exhibition. The work is a immersive AV installation about (and with) the eels and their challenges in the context of our local hydroelectric dam on the Ottawa River. L’Hirondelle discusses how her relationship with the falls evolved as she discovered the existence of eel ladders designed to help the endangered animals on their journey through the river.

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How Does Culture Shape Sound?

What does it mean to speak of “aural culture?” What does listening offer, as a tool or technique for understanding our world, that visual perception cannot? The sounds that fill our lives are dense with information about the interwoven cultures to which we belong, and approaches to their investigation can take similarly varied routes. For Linda-Ruth Salter, language is a primary element of culture. Expressed aloud it is a richly coded meaning system, but it can also speak volumes when forced into silence.

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Can Sound be Spaceless?

Sound is inherently tied to space, it traverses. Once you start considering the possibility of a spaceless sound, you are delving into a realm of abstraction. Two types of re-encodings of sound that might be considered aspatial are the conversion of “vibrations moving through the air” to a digital signal and our memory of sonic events.