Highlights

BMO Lab is featured in the most recent (October 2023) issue of U of T Magazine. Thank you Glenn Sumi for spending some time with us in the lab and writing it up so well! The Theatre of… Read more: BMO Lab featured in U of T Magazine – October 2023

For months we have been holding informal zoom meetings with American poet Nick Flynn, exploring together our ‘Voice Scroll‘ system that translates spoken voice into panoramic images in real-time. Nick Flynn is the inaugural artist-in-residence for the Lab’s… Read more: Nick Flynn at BMO Lab – July 2023

(article by Tara Maher) The BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI led by director David Rokeby at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies is providing its expertise to help… Read more: The BMO Lab provides its expertise for a new theatrical production with actor Sébastien Heins

On Friday, April 14, we explore how AI image generation works and looked particularly at BMO Lab’s own work incorporating voice recognition and text-to-image models to produce real-time voice generated panoramas suitable for installation and performance work, but… Read more: AI Salon – Text to Image Generation – April 14, 2023 5-7

On Friday, March 31, we hosted a salon where we explored the recent developments in Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. We talked about how they work, gave detailed examples of the generation process, tested out many prompts… Read more: AI Salons – Text Generation and Large Language Models – March 31, 2023 5-7pm

Real-time Generation of Panoramic scenes from Voice using a custom Stable Diffusion pipeline (2023) We have extended our exploration of text to scrolling image to work with the latest version of Stable Diffusion and adapting it to our… Read more: Voice Scroll: Real-time Voice to Scrolling Image for Performance

When: Oct. 25, Feb. 15, March 2 (5–7pm)  We held a lecture series at the BMO Lab this academic year (2022-3) entitled “Performance Capture – on the margins of the computable.” These events, which ran on Tuesdays or Thursdays… Read more: Lecture Series: Performance Capture – on the margins of the computable (2022-3)

In partnership with Canadian Stage, the BMO Lab presented a workshop production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Toronto’s Berkeley Street Theatre on February 25th and 26th of 2022. Two women conquer a city and –… Read more: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – Feb 25-26, 2022

For our production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, we explored the use of live motion capture for some of the scenes. At various times, two of the performers wore rigs of 17 sensors under their costumes,… Read more: Arturo Ui – Real-time Control of Avatars in Performance

For our production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, we explored the use of live motion capture for some of the scenes. At various times, two of the performers wore rigs of 17 sensors under their costumes,… Read more: Arturo Ui – Body Pose Recognition for Sound, Lighting and Video Cues

We are very excited to be participating in the CanadianStage Festival of Ideas and Creation! Tuesday May 18, Wednesday May 19 and Thursday May 20, we will be presenting the activities of the performers-in-residence Sebastien Heins, Ryan Cunningham,… Read more: BMO Lab at the CanadianStage Festival of Ideas and Creation 2021

Workshop: February 29th, 1-4 pm — Artist’s Talk / Lecture: March 2, 4:30-6 pm The BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence was very pleased to present two events with internationally renowned artist Kyle… Read more: Artists Talk / Workshop with Kyle McDonald