{"id":62,"date":"2020-02-20T04:27:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T04:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2020-12-17T19:37:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:37:22","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=62","title":{"rendered":"Events and News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list event-page-posts wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4316\">Welcome Professor Sarah Bay-Cheng!<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The BMO Lab is thrilled to announce that Sarah Bay-Cheng will join the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies on July 1, 2025&nbsp;as Professor of Emerging Technologies in Theatre and Performance and the Helen and Paul Phelan Chair in Drama. As an&nbsp;outstanding and field-shaping scholar, Professor Bay-Cheng will bring exciting research, collaboration, and pedagogical innovation to our department. In this position, Sarah will be an integral part of the BMO Lab team. Sarah Bay-Cheng\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4316\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Welcome Professor Sarah Bay-Cheng!<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4308\">Algorithmic Millennium: Creating Staged &amp; Digital Games &#8211; Feb 4, 2025<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Winter Keynote Lecture&nbsp;&nbsp;Natalie Tin Yin Gan &amp; Remy Siuof Hong Kong Exile &amp; Sunset Visitorin conversation with Dr. Doug Eacho Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, 5-7pm Audio recording of the presentation: BMOLab \u00b7 Algorithmic Millennium: Creating Staged &amp; Digital Games &#8211; Hong Kong Exiles at BMO Lab What does experimental performance have to do with video games? How do emerging media provide new landscapes for diasporic narratives? How can live and digital bodies perform and resist\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4308\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Algorithmic Millennium: Creating Staged &amp; Digital Games &#8211; Feb 4, 2025<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4284\">Beyond the Pose: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Dynamic Human Movement<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">We are, as an interdisciplinary team comprising members from Performing Arts, Computer Science, Kinesiology, and Inclusive Design, developing methods for improving the representation and interpretation of human movement\u2014in all its diversity\u2014to enable a richer, more embodied, and more equitable presence for bodies of all sorts in engagements with machine learning systems. THE CHALLENGE:&nbsp;How we are situated in the world within our individual bodies defines much of our experience and agency as humans. We navigate the\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4284\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Beyond the Pose: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Dynamic Human Movement<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4232\">Tarryn Li-Min Chun, Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theatre, Technology, and Politics in Modern China, Oct. 3 2024<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">part of the 2024 BMO Lab Lecture Series, \u201cPerformance Infrastructures\u201d curated by Doug Eacho. In this talk, Dr Chun introduced her forthcoming book,&nbsp;Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theatre, Technology, and Politics in Modern China, which draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in 20th century China. This unique approach to Chinese theatre history combines a close look at plays themselves,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4232\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Tarryn Li-Min Chun, Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theatre, Technology, and Politics in Modern China, Oct. 3 2024<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4218\">Roland Schimmelpfennig &#8211; Inaugural Nada Ristich Artist-in-Residence at BMO Lab<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The&nbsp;BMO Lab&nbsp;hosts its inaugural Nada Ristich Artist-in-Residence, Roland Schimmelpfennig, for two weeks in November. Schimmelpfennig is Germany&#8217;s most performed playwright and one of Europe&#8217;s most original voices, with productions worldwide in over 40 countries.&nbsp; While in Toronto, Roland will be working closely with Lab Director David Rokeby to delve into artificial intelligence, its potential applications to theatre, and to gain a deeper understanding of what is at play in recent developments of AI and its\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4218\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Roland Schimmelpfennig &#8211; Inaugural Nada Ristich Artist-in-Residence at BMO Lab<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3951\">Beware of Robots:  Performance, Questions of Technology,  and a Strong Program for Theatre Studies with Professor Ulf Otto &#8211; Mar. 27, 2024<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">part of BMO Lab&#8217;s &#8216;Staging Infrastructures&#8217; Winter Lecture Series Friday, March 27, 2024, 4-6 pm A recording of the lecture: Where does technology lead in the context of performing arts? In the logic of the discipline, technology is often equated with an extended concept of stagecraft, a domain of devices that are of interest in regards to their artistic use and the aesthetic experiences they enable. But a closer look at performance in practice reveals\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3951\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Beware of Robots:  Performance, Questions of Technology,  and a Strong Program for Theatre Studies with Professor Ulf Otto &#8211; Mar. 27, 2024<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3931\">Staging Infrastructure with  Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken, Mar. 8, 2024<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">part of BMO Lab&#8217;s &#8216;Staging Infrastructures&#8217; Winter Lecture Series Theatre artists Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava joined Prof. Doug Eacho to discuss their recent Canadian Stage multimedia spectacle Universal Child Care, gendered issues of care work and arts-making, and the need for political performance today. Here is a recording of the presentation: Universal Child Care: Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3931\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Staging Infrastructure with  Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken, Mar. 8, 2024<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3859\">From Digital to Dressing Room: Hair Theory, Technology, and the Styling of Black Women on Broadway &#8211; Christin Essen &#8211; Mar. 1, 2024<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">part of BMO Lab&#8217;s &#8216;Staging Infrastructures&#8217; Winter Lecture Series Christin Essin, Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and author of&nbsp;Working Backstage and Stage Designers in Early 20th Century America, is an award-winning historian of technical theatre, performance design, and labour. This Friday she will share work from a new project on the intersections between race, technological change, and the styling and costuming of Broadway performers.&nbsp; Essin&#8217;s research draws sharp focus to the skilled Broadway professionals whose\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3859\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: From Digital to Dressing Room: Hair Theory, Technology, and the Styling of Black Women on Broadway &#8211; Christin Essen &#8211; Mar. 1, 2024<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3915\">BMO Lab&#8217;s 2024 Winter Lecture Series: Staging Infrastructure<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Theatre is made of more then sets, words, and actors. It is made possible thanks to countless forces, energies, efforts, and things \u2013 from janitorial services to urban transit, air conditioning to box office tabulation. Increasingly theatre scholars as well as artists are following the broader \u201cinfrastructural turn\u201d in cultural and media studies to notice the unnoticed \u2018backstage\u2019 of our art, and our wider world. This March, the Lab will host three events pulling back\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3915\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: BMO Lab&#8217;s 2024 Winter Lecture Series: Staging Infrastructure<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3736\">Symposium: Interpolations 1 &#8211; Oct. 21, 2023<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Interpolations 1 was a one-day symposium at the BMO Lab devoted to the interfaces between computational media and the performing arts. A dozen scholars of digital performance, VR theatre, the tech industry, computational dance, and more gathered to chart connections and pathways for this increasingly vital area of research. The day culminated in a keynote address \u201cThe Work of Art in the Age of Digital Commodification.\u201d from renowned theatre artist Annie Dorsen and philanthropic leader\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3736\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Symposium: Interpolations 1 &#8211; Oct. 21, 2023<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3728\">Artists&#8217; talk with the creators of asses.masses &#8211; Sept. 20, 2023<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Creators Patrick Blenkarn, Milton Lim and Laurel Green came to BMO Lab to discuss their 7 hour gaming-based theatre production. How can and why should we make a video game for the theatre?&nbsp;The artists behind the video game performance&nbsp;asses.masses&nbsp;will break down the project\u2019s development from its origins as a 20-minute interactive experiment to a touring 7+ hour event for theatres in multiple languages. The artists will reflect upon how&nbsp;asses.masses&nbsp;was made and how their collaborative approaches\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3728\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Artists&#8217; talk with the creators of asses.masses &#8211; Sept. 20, 2023<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3428\">&#8220;Black Movement in Digital Spaces&#8221; lecture by LaJun\u00e9 McMillian, March 2, 2023 (recording available)<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI The third in a series of events in BMO Lab&#8217;s Performance Capture Series. For those who were interested but not able to attend, here is the video recording of the lecture: In the past few years, access to motion capture data, 3D base models, and software to \u201cmake an animation of yourself\u201d has skyrocketed. From MakeHuman to Mixamo to CMU\u2019s motion capture\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3428\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: &#8220;Black Movement in Digital Spaces&#8221; lecture by LaJun\u00e9 McMillian, March 2, 2023 (recording available)<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3376\">&#8220;Is My Robot Happy&#8221;, Lecture by Whitney Laemmli &#8211; February 15, 2023<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Is My Robot Happy? &#8211; A History of Movement and Emotion in People and Machines Whitney Laemmli, Carnegie Mellon University The second of a series of events in BMO Lab&#8217;s Performance Capture Series Wednesday February 15, 2023, 5-7 pm BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI Over the past few decades, an eclectic mix of artists, roboticists, and computer scientists have utilized a notation system called Laban Movement Analysis\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3376\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: &#8220;Is My Robot Happy&#8221;, Lecture by Whitney Laemmli &#8211; February 15, 2023<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3131\">Lecture Series: Performance Capture \u2013 on the  margins of the computable (2022-3)<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">When:&nbsp;Oct. 25, Feb. 15, March 2 (5\u20137pm)&nbsp; We held a lecture series at the BMO Lab this academic year (2022-3) entitled \u201cPerformance Capture \u2013 on the margins of the computable.\u201d These events, which ran on Tuesdays or Thursdays from 5-7pm, introduces major thinkers on themes of performance and digital culture to our community through lectures and extended, in-depth conversation (with refreshments!). This year, our speakers will focus on the tenuous compatibility and disjuncture between digital\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3131\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Lecture Series: Performance Capture \u2013 on the  margins of the computable (2022-3)<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3087\">Relational Dramaturgies: Lecture by Imanuel Schipper: October 25, 2022 (recording available)<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Relational Dramaturgies: Co-Producing Spectators, Immersive Spaces and the change of the locus of dramaturgy October 25, 2022, 5-7 pm BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION OF LAB: University College, Room H-12 (map below) People are walking the street, doing strange things, a theatre audience is discussing greenhouse gas reductions of countries that they do not know exist &#8211; these are just two examples of\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3087\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Relational Dramaturgies: Lecture by Imanuel Schipper: October 25, 2022 (recording available)<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3060\">How will Virtual Reality Affect our Lives? : Sept 19, 2022<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">BMO Lab is proud to be a sponsor of this exciting event. Join us this Monday, September 19th, for an evening discussion on the&nbsp;technophilosopy of virtual and augmented reality. A panel of leading thinkers will explore the social and ethical implications of emerging VR and AR technologies. Doors open: 5:00pmEvent starts: 5:30pmRegistration: technophilosophy.ca Speakers: Jessica Hall&nbsp;(University of Toronto, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology) Karan Singh&nbsp;(University of Toronto, Department of Computer\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3060\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: How will Virtual Reality Affect our Lives? : Sept 19, 2022<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2670\">Arturo Ui &#8211; Interview with Director Johanna Schall<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Johanna Schall is a freelance director living in Berlin. Before starting her directing career, she was an actor at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin for 15 years, working there with a wide range of directors like Thomas Langhoff, Frank Castorf, Alexander Lang and Heiner Mueller. In the mid 90s she directed her first play, Strindberg\u2019s The Pelican, and from 2002 to 2008 Johanna acted as the artistic director of the Volkstheater in Rostock, Germany, where\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2670\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Arturo Ui &#8211; Interview with Director Johanna Schall<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2454\">AI As Foil Series: Hacking the Voice &#8211; Friday, Mar 18, 2022<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A discussion with Toronto vocalist Fides Krucker, and London beatboxer Reeps One (Harry Yeff), moderated by Natalie Klym and hosted by the BMOLab at the University of Toronto. Friday, Mar 18, 2022, 2:00-2:45 pm Fides Krucker uses the unmediated voice to unlock the power of the self. Reeps One (Harry Yeff) is using AI to unlock the power of the voice. In this session Krucker and Yeff compare and contrast their work to explore what\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2454\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: AI As Foil Series: Hacking the Voice &#8211; Friday, Mar 18, 2022<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2102\">AI as Foil Series: The Essence of Style: AI Meets Fashion Design &#8211; Feb 19, 2021<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A Discussion with fashion designer&nbsp;Daniela Bosco&nbsp;and&nbsp;Idris Mootee, CEO of Urbancoolab Friday, February 19, 2021, 2:00-2:45pm This online event was part of the series&nbsp;AI as Foil: Exploring the Co-evolution of Art and Technology&nbsp;curated by Natalie Klym. Craft\/discipline: Fashion design Guest artist:&nbsp;Daniela Bosco, Creative Consultant\/Stylist AI respondent:&nbsp;Idris Mootee, Co-founder of&nbsp;Urbancoolab&nbsp;&nbsp; When Toronto fashion designer Daniela Bosco&nbsp;creates, she draws inspiration from photography, architecture, music, and cinema. So does STiCH, the fashion robot driving Urbancoolab\u2019s&nbsp;streetwear&nbsp;design and commerce platform.&nbsp;STiCH is\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2102\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: AI as Foil Series: The Essence of Style: AI Meets Fashion Design &#8211; Feb 19, 2021<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2091\">Diagonal: &#8220;Enchanting Infrastructure: New Approaches to AI&#8221; &#8211; Feb. 5, 2021<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Here is the recording of the event: (the very active chat that took place during this event is presented in full below.) How should the recent explosion of research, investment, and discourse around &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; be critically understood? Which methods, traditions, and narratives from the humanities and social sciences are fit to grasp these unusual technologies? What elements of today&#8217;s society are influencing tomorrow&#8217;s computing? This panel invited four researchers to present their emerging but\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2091\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Diagonal: &#8220;Enchanting Infrastructure: New Approaches to AI&#8221; &#8211; Feb. 5, 2021<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2079\">CanadianStage debuts its short film about the BMO Lab \/ CanStage Residency<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">For the 20.21 season, Ryan Cunningham and S\u00e9bastien Heins are participating in the BMO Lab in Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. Canadian Stage and the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto have partnered to create this unique paid opportunity for two professional actors who will immerse themselves with the Lab\u2019s technologies and research possibilities for application to live theatre performance. Video by: https:\/\/www.videocompany.ca\/\u200b The BMO\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2079\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: CanadianStage debuts its short film about the BMO Lab \/ CanStage Residency<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2087\">Diagonal Reading Group: &#8220;Cloud Ethics&#8221; by Louise Amoore &#8211; Jan 8, 2021<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">On January 8th, The Diagonal Reading Group held its second meeting. We discussed Louise Amoor&#8217;s Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others. It was again a lively and invigorating discussion. Thanks to everyone who participated! Doug Eacho&#8217;s Invitation prior to the event: Louise Amoore is a Professor of Geography at the University of Durham, and her&nbsp;Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others&nbsp;(Duke, 2020) has generated a lot of attention\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2087\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Diagonal Reading Group: &#8220;Cloud Ethics&#8221; by Louise Amoore &#8211; Jan 8, 2021<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1631\">Hacking Choreography: Kate Sicchio &#8211; Dec 2, 2020<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dance Composition through Live Coding Abstract: Technology is often used within dance as a way of extending or enhancing a performance, many times ending up as decoration. But what happens when technology is used to interrupt movement or used within the inner workings of a choreographic process? This talk explores the field of live&nbsp;coding and how to use programming as a way to make dances in real-time. It will also demo Terpsicode, a new programming\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1631\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Hacking Choreography: Kate Sicchio &#8211; Dec 2, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1589\">AI as Foil Series: The Automation of Beauty: AI\u2019s Role in Architecture &#8211; Nov 27<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A Discussion with Thom Payne, Architect, and Francesco Iorio,&nbsp;CEO&nbsp;and Chief Scientist, Augmenta AI Friday, November 27, 2:00-2:45pm Here is the recording of the Zoom Event: This online event is part of the series&nbsp;AI as Foil: Exploring the Co-evolution of Art and Technology&nbsp;curated by Natalie Klym. Craft\/discipline: Architecture, Drawing Guest artist:&nbsp;Thomas Payne, Architect AI respondent:&nbsp;Francesco Iorio, CEO&nbsp;and Chief Scientist, Augmenta AI Thomas Payne, architect of multiple cultural institutions throughout Canada and around the world&nbsp;spoke about his&nbsp;evolving\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1589\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: AI as Foil Series: The Automation of Beauty: AI\u2019s Role in Architecture &#8211; Nov 27<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1127\">AI as Foil Series: Moves Like Moon Watcher &#8211; Oct 9<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The pioneering AI movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, brought us one of the most iconic (and brutal) opening scenes in the history of film, The Dawn of Man. This classic cinematic moment features the ape-man, Moon Watcher, transforming the bone of a dead animal into a weapon, sealing the fate of humankind. Made long before CGI was available, director Stanley Kubrick relied on the skills of professional mime, Dan Richter to perform this scene and train the other actors re the nuances of ape movements. Dan\u2014the man inside the ape suit\u2014will join us remotely from California in conversation with new CDTPS Faculty member Douglas Eacho to discuss this unique experience. Through this discussion we will explore the current and future opportunities for AI to play a role in the acting process, as well as new roles for actors, including outside the arts.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1427\">Canadian Stage \/ BMO Lab Performers-in-Residence Announced<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">When you think of a laboratory, what comes to mind? Experiments? Ground-breaking innovations? Maybe an explosion or two? These are all true of BMO Lab, the country\u2019s only theatre workshop solely devoted to explorations in emergent technologies. Think of S\u00e9bastien Heins and Ryan Cunningham as the latest \u201cscientists\u201d to explore, experiment, and break new ground in their crafts. They are the two innovative artists that Canadian Stage has invited to join the Lab for this\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1427\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Canadian Stage \/ BMO Lab Performers-in-Residence Announced<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=955\">BMO Lab \/ Canadian Stage Performers-in-Residence Call<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Canadian Stage and the BMO Lab in Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto are partnering to host two paid professional artist residencies for the 2020\/21 Season.&nbsp; Salary will be jointly paid by Canadian Stage and the BMO Lab, with each recipient receiving a total of $10,000 (CAN). APPLY HERE About the BMO Lab Residency The BMO Lab residency\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=955\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: BMO Lab \/ Canadian Stage Performers-in-Residence Call<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=889\">ARTificial Intelligence: AI and Creativity Distinguished Lecture &#8211; Allison Parrish &#8211; Aug 28<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The Vector Institute and the BMO Lab are excited to present: A lecture with Allison Parrish&nbsp; Friday, August&nbsp;28, 2 &#8211; 3:30 p.m. EST Machines are playing increasingly significant roles in creative activities such as music, architecture, poetry, visual and performing arts, as well as science. This distinguished lecture series will take a look at the evolving and complex relationship between AI and the human creative process. How might AI assist and augment human creativity? How\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=889\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: ARTificial Intelligence: AI and Creativity Distinguished Lecture &#8211; Allison Parrish &#8211; Aug 28<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=852\">BMO Lab and the theatre community Zoom Sessions<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">During the Covid-19 lockdown, the BMO Lab has been hosting regular zoom-based meetings of actors, directors, and other theatre people to present the Lab, its facilities and technologies and its mission to the Toronto and International theatre community. Lab Director David Rokeby presented introductions to various technologies and approaches such as motion capture, GPT-2 based text generation, Generative Adversarial Networks for face generation and real-time scenography, virtual face puppetry. The wonderful group of actors, directors\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=852\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: BMO Lab and the theatre community Zoom Sessions<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=156\">Artists Talk \/ Workshop with Kyle McDonald<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Workshop: February 29th, 1-4 pm &#8212; Artist\u2019s Talk \/ Lecture: March 2, 4:30-6 pm The&nbsp;BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence&nbsp;was very pleased to present two events with internationally renowned artist&nbsp;Kyle McDonald.&nbsp;&nbsp; Kyle McDonald&nbsp;is an artist working with code. He crafts interactive installations, performances, sneaky interventions, playful websites, workshops, and&nbsp;toolkits&nbsp;for other artists working with code. He explores the possibilities of new technologies: to understand how they affect society,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=156\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Artists Talk \/ Workshop with Kyle McDonald<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=153\">A Screening of Bone Mother<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">BMO Lab presents a screening of Montreal artist Dale Hayward&#8217;s award-winning film &#8220;BONE MOTHER,&#8221;&nbsp;a work created entirely with the use of 3D printing. Join us after the screening for a talk with Dale and an exhibition of the physical artifacts.&nbsp; BONE MOTHER A vain and arrogant youth dares to enter Baba Yaga\u2019s living house of bones. What emerges will forever fill our nights with terror.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=373\">Official Opening<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">With its largest-ever gift to a single Canadian institution, BMO Financial Group is investing $5 million to explore the potential of artificial intelligence and other revolutionary technologies in a novel way. The BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI, an initiative of the University of Toronto&#8217;s Centre for Drama, Theatre &amp; Performance Studies, will harness the latest technological developments to create new forms of human expression. Through multidisciplinary work\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=373\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Official Opening<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=149\">Robert Wilson in Conversation<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI hosted a reception for internationally acclaimed theatre and opera director Robert Wilson in honour of his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. To learn more about the event, visit our\u00a0events page.\u00a0<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=72\">Friedrich Kirschner, \u2019Spiel und Objekt\u2019<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI hosted a&nbsp;presentation by Friedrich Kirschner of the Ernst Busch School of the Performing Arts, Berlin.&nbsp; Friedrich Kirschner is a professor for digital media in puppetry at the renowned Ernst Busch School of Performing Arts in Berlin. He is a theater director and software developer, devising participatory performances, social simulations and interactive installations. He is a Professor for digital media at the\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=72\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Friedrich Kirschner, \u2019Spiel und Objekt\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=389\">Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">BMO Lab Director David Rokeby was invited by the Vector Institute to give the inaugural Distinguished Lecture on Creativity and Artificial Intelligence. He described his presentation, &#8216;Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence&#8217; as follows: Artificial Intelligence research has provided an abundance of powerful tools for artistic creation in visual arts, music and the literary arts. But amazing tools, in themselves, do not necessarily make for a better, more creative artist. Artists exploring the creative\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=389\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-62","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2048,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}