Interview | Borscht Radio—on communal listening
We grew more familiar with Borscht Radio toward the end of 2024. Before that, the thread led to a curious chat with Dora about whales, animal communication, and listening through echoes: digital, more-than-human, and mythological echoes.
Fast forward to 2025, the Cultural Technologies Lab residency focused on translocal artists' collaboration and an ensuing gathering in Taiwan. Upon returning to Canada, we felt inspired, gaining a new outlook on listening, community-building, and how our local art scene can become more resilient by connecting with global networks.
Leaving an extractive content streaming platform is just a small step. Creating shared spaces online and offline to test new formats, discover interesting sounds, and develop ways for culture to circulate beyond the platforms we're given makes resistance tangible. Dora and Ilyse are building their own networks that connect different parts of Toronto’s experimental music scene.
Views from the Machine | Workshop Digest
On March 28, we held our first in-person workshop, "Views from the Machine," with a group of people from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Some had their work and employment connected to AI, while others were curious about how AI impacts their lives. All wanted a greater sense of individual and collective agency in navigating the rapid changes caused by its proliferation.
Call of the Void | January Program Digests
There’s a beginning and an end, or something like that. We begin the final session today aware of the ghostly presences who’ve made themselves known, who we’ve collected like paperclips to a magnet. Some parts of the internet are already dead, long cauterized stretches of digital space inhabited by bots and other unruly beings. Shadows, echoes, and duplicates dialogue between each other and with us. Reverberations of a long-decimated civilization. I wonder, how much noise will be there after we’re gone? Will we leave this place with the television running? With an old voicemail playing over and over into the void? What will it say?