Programming News

Touch Designer 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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Touch Designer 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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Touch Designer 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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GroupChat02-Game Night

Join us for a special edition of GroupChat where we explore the world of gaming. In this interactive event, we’ll not only play a variety of games but also dive into a thought-provoking discussion on how gaming can inspire and be applied to artistic practice….

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Workshop: Web-Based Augmented Reality for Artists

This workshop is designed for artists interested in exploring the world of web-based augmented reality (AR). You’ll learn how to create interactive AR experiences that are free, open-source, and accessible through a web browser—no need for users to download an app. With just a few lines of simple HTML code, you’ll be able to bring your drawings to …

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PLAYING WITH IDEAS: A WORKSHOP WITH KATE HEARTFIELD

The blank page can be intimidating, whether it’s the start of an email, an artist statement, a novel or a newsletter. Imagination in our use of language is a skill and a resource, and is more valuable than ever in an age of chatbots and large language models. This workshop with University of Ottawa Writer-in-Residence Kate Heartfield will help part…

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Touch Designer Meetup 03

Are you new to TouchDesigner or looking to level up your skills? Join us for The Clinic, a relaxed, community-driven meetup where you can get hands-on help with your TouchDesigner projects. Whether you’re just starting out or have specific issues you need help with, this is the perfect space to ask questions, troubleshoot problems, and learn along….

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GoupChat XR/VR Edition

October 24thth 6:30pm @artengine…

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MONAHAN: Talk with Laura Taler

October 16th 7:30pm @artengine Join artist Laura Taler for a conversation ‘behind the scenes’ of the creation process for MONAHAN….

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Workshop: Web-Based Augmented Reality for Artists

This workshop is designed for artists interested in exploring the world of web-based augmented reality (AR). You’ll learn how to create interactive AR experiences that are free, open-source, and accessible through a web browser—no need for users to download an app. …

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TouchDesigner Meetup 02

Ottawa-Gatineau TouchDesigner Meetup 02 6:30 PM Thursday September 19th Artengine, 2 Daly Ave Come join us at Artengine for another gathering of TouchDesigner creatives! This edition will be semi-formal with time to check out projects; see what’s under the hood and connect with others. …

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Launch of EEPVERS.XYZ: A digital collectibles workshop

Join us for an engaging and informative session as we explore the fascinating world of digital collectibles and blockchain technology. The founders of EEPVERS.XYZ will provide an in-depth look at real-life use cases, demonstrating how these digital innovations are transforming the creative landscape. …

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BOOK LAUNCH: Suyi Davies Okungbowa new science fiction novel, Lost Ark Dreaming

BOOK LAUNCH: This Saturday, join Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa for a discussion of his science fiction novel, Lost Ark Dreaming. 📅 Saturday, 1 June 2024, 5PM 📍 Artengine Studio…

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TouchDesigner Meet Up

Come share your projects and get connected with others working with TouchDesigner in the region!…

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Maylee Todd - The Fundamentals of Ableton and How to Build a Multimedia Show with Ableton Live

Artengine is partnering with Pique, as part of their new full roster of programming under the title Topique, to bring you an introductory Ableton workshop with the talented and delightful Maylee Todd. …

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Jesse Stewart @ Pique

For the upcoming Pique event Artengine will be hosting Jesse Stewart in the Studio. Stewart brings his characteristic artistic ingenuity and exceptional performance skills to the event with an interactive piece for a collection of custom built gongs. Built out from the Adaptive Use Musical Instruments (AUMI) tool…

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Annika Walsh shooting Chinese Croquembouche for upcoming Food Conference.

In the studio this week with Annika Walsh. In her words, “Chinese Croquembouche is a savoury twist on a classic French dessert presented as a durational interactive sculpture. A traditional croquembouche consists of choux pastry puffs piled into a cone and bound together with threads of caramel. Chinese Croquembouche has a savoury filling and is bo…

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Resident Sarah Conn presenting Remix in Victoria

Sarah Conn’s experience Remixed premiered in Western Canada from May 5th-6th at SKAM studios Victoria. The creator of the Project Trophy, which explored life’s turning points, introduced Remixed: a 45 minute personalized polyphonic playlist of true stories and prompts on transformation set in a colour changing garden inspired space.The playlist in…

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Walk on the Wild Side: Interspecies Collaboration in Art

We are delighted to be a partner in the SciArt Symposium organized by SAW. Through a series of wonderful conversations with SAW we have helped assemble the panel: Walk on the Wild Side: Interspecies Collaboration in Art Moderator by our Managing Director, Remco Volmer and including: Aleksandra Bajde, a Slovenian composer-performer, cultural manager…

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Art and Science Fiction Residency

Join Artengine for a residency exploring the potential of science fiction as an artistic framework for imagining alternative futures. …

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Artengine Slow Video Roku Channel

Artengine is experimenting with smart TV channels. We currently have a slowwwwwwww video channel for Roku TVs. We are loading up some experiments in atmospheric moving images and you can add it to your Roku line up and check it out….

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Cheryl L’Hirondelle in Conversation

As part of the Entanglements exhibition we are delighted to host an artist talk and conversation with Cheryl L’Hirondelle. She will discuss her work Nipawiwin Akikodjiwan: Pimizi ohci, her relationship to the eels and her research on interspecies communication….

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Negotiating Digital Space in Culturally Significant Storytelling

Artengine is delighted to be supporting the newly formed organization Mindful Habitats with their online presentation series Negotiating Digital Space in Cultural Significant Storytelling. These series explores the relationship between narrative and our experience of the environment around us….

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Sourdough Rising

This week we kicked off our new cultural incubator program Sourdough. The beta version of the program includes three participants all developing new projects for their creative communities. They will meet together on a weekly basis for mentorship and workshops from leading artists and cultural producers from around the world. …

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Welcome Junior Fellows!

We welcome our first Junior Fellows to Artengine – Annika Walsh and Kayla Eli! The Junior Fellowship program helps recent graduates transition out of the school context and into their professional practice. Annika and Kayla will be grounded at Artengine until the end of the year, making and exploring the beginning of their artistic practices i…

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remixed in residence

Remixed is an immersive listening party that can be experienced at-home or in-person. Together, we travel down the spine of change, connected by our custom app, the portal into the performance. Five years in the making, Remixed gathers true stories of transformation from all over the globe in a personal and multi-faceted meditation on how we i…

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Welcome to New Team Members!

Artengine welcomes Najeeba Ahmed and Mercedes Ventura to our team as part of a new internship program. Najeeba (they/them) is an artist and designer with a bachelor’s degree in biology and visual arts at the University of Ottawa. They are currently doing their Masters research on nakshi kantha in Bangladesh. Mercedes (she/her/they) is an artist…

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Alpha Beta… something before 1.0

We are excited to share an early version of our new artengine site. This new space will be an ongoing and transforming space as we develop new features and refine our web presence out in public. The most exciting change is our new Ideas section. Here we are rethinking what it means to lead dialogue about art and culture in our time. It’s a bit publ…

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Indigenous Youth Mentorship

Thunderbird Sisters Collective was recently awarded an exciting grant from the Trillium Foundation to develop its mentorship program for youth. Artengine is excited to be working in mentorship and exchange over the three year arc of their project development. Their program is targeted at youth’s from 12-19 and they recently kicked off with an in de…

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