Signals Creative Tech Expo 2024
HuckleberryBy Tracey Kim Bonneau
sumaxatkʷ offers a beautiful prayer song and immersive experience to spark conversations about the beauty and importance of st̓xałq and land.Learn MoreAI & MEBy MOTS
We’ve uploaded our lives on social media, why not confess to an AI? Enter the confessional and let AI imagine its own version of you.Learn MorePROTOPICABy Manuel Sainsily and Will Selviz
Protopica is an immersive exhibition that intertwines AI, EEG, and cultural storytelling inviting participants to rediscover their roots and reflect on the ever-changing meaning of “home”.Learn MoreNOCTURNAL FUGUEBy Jiabao Li, Matt McCorkle, Botao Amber Hu
An interactive AI project that invites you into an immersive bat world, where their social vocalizations are reinterpreted as evocative music, set against digital recreations of their natural habitats.Learn MorePOINT OF REFLECTIONBy Trevor Twells
Exploring themes of delayed trauma, race, confrontation, and introspection, Point of Reflection gives participants the opportunity to process all that has transpired over the past four years.Learn MoreDIGITAL FEASTBy Raven John
What was taken can be made anew, the spirits of our ceremony wait for us to take up our lost practices and make new ones as the world opens up into the virtualLearn MoreAEXIABy Strawberry Fields Interactive
Aexia is a platform for creating, sharing and playing VR role-playing games.Learn moreI Would Like to be Midnight I Would Like to be SkyArtist Amelia Winger-Bearskin confronts the idea of sky ownership using innovative AI techniques to visually erase man-made structures in her landscape photography and morph hand-drawn animations.Learn more
Signals Creative Tech Expo 2024
Signals is an interactive and immersive expo showcasing bold and innovative storytelling in video games, XR, virtual production, and AI—all with a focus on world-class Canadian and Indigenous works.
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The 2024 Signals Expo featured the following events:
Our annual showcase of innovative storytelling in video games, immersive, virtual and augmented reality, virtual production and AI from top Canadian and Indigenous artists.
An inspiring afternoon of connection, curation, and celebration of Indigenous works in XR!
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This two-day symposium explored the intersection of AI and creativity. It highlighted how AI enhances artistic expression in films, video games, and research.
Presentations included Microsoft’s David Seymour on the Art of the Possible, DNEG’s Crawford Doran on the use of Ziva AI for character animation, EA’s Rick Stringfellow on looking at how AI is a signal of change, SFU’s Philippe Pasquier on MetaCreation Lab’s ethical AI tools for non-coders, OpenAI Ambassador Manuel Sainsily and Will Selviz’s work with SORA technology in short films, and Indigenous filmmaker Amelia Bearskin-Winger’s integration of AI in storytelling.
IM4 Lab proudly presented this rare opportunity to meet Co-Founder and Signals’ Co-Curator Loretta Todd, alongside incredible artists Michael Running Wolf and Caroline Old Coyote, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Tracey Kim Bonneau, Kahentawaks Tiewishaw, and Raven John.
Visitors discovered their innovative works and learned about their journeys through talks and a roundtable discussion.
This all-ages event was free and open to everyone! Featuring complimentary tea and pemmican, no less.
Beta Lounge: Interactive Digital Media Conference
An exclusive component of the Signals Creative Tech Expo designed to facilitate high-level business-to-business (B2B) interactions and networking opportunities.
Sent off with a Performance of Nocturnal Fugue by Matt McCorkle and Jiabao Li, creating an immersive bat language and habitat through AI.
Are you part of the creative industries in the Greater Vancouver area and ready to export, or new to exporting and looking to break into international markets?
A warehouse in False Creek flats is being transformed from an industrial blank slate to a portal to a digital future rich in imagination and possibility. And it’s all to set the stage for Signals: Vancouver’s annual creative tech expo.