​BC + AI × CDM × Institut français du Canada x Metacreation Lab

​French artist and researcher Arthur Kuhn has been heads down at CDM for a month, pushing AI into sound, in collaboration with the Metacreation Lab for Creative AI (SFU/SIAT). He’ll play a tight excerpt from melodia atomizacji, a live model worrying its own meaning, then open the residency notebook: datasets chosen, training runs, what cracked, what sang. Open floor after. Ask about workflow, instruments, ethics.

​About Arthur: Artist and doctoral student at Paragraphe Lab, Université Paris 8. His practice sits between noise and knowledge. He studies the systems, methods, and protocols that move us from one to the other.

​He works through sound creation and creative writing with digital tools. His texts expose how information systems are built and situated, historically and culturally, because knowledge comes from somewhere. Sound is his way back to noise, a primordial and unstable field of abrasive possibilities.

​His PhD research focuses on Computational Ideology and its impact on today’s media culture. He lives and works in Nantes. He is part of the Open It collective, helps run the Plongeoir artists’ studios in the Primil district, and develops a practice as research residency program.

​The Lineup

• ​Introduction to the Artificial Muse residency, and Metacreation Lab

• ​Live piece (8-10 min): fragments, noise, and a model unlearning itself in public.

• ​Artist talk (25-30 min): dataset decisions → training tactics → compositional play.

• ​Open discussion (20 min): workflow, ethics, failure states, audience questions.

​Who it’s for

​Artists, sound people, geeks, tool-builders, students, skeptics, and anyone exploring creative AI without giving their agency away. This sits right inside BC’s DIY, community-first AI culture... cross-disciplinary, open, and grounded in place.

​Artists Statement:

​Summary: Arthur Kuhn is a french artist and PhD student who has been in residency at Vancouver's CDM for the past month, working on AI and sound art. To discuss the content of this residency, and his work with AI in general, Arthur Kuhn will perform a short noise piece from a previous project called melodia atomizacji – using real-time AI models to enact the dissolving of meaning at the heart of Machine Learning – then discuss his latest attempt at training models and working with them to explore new ways of creating sound. This will take the form of a lecture-discussion, where everyone attending is welcome to ask question about the artist's work process, tools, and intentions.

​Bio: Arthur Kuhn is an artist and doctoral student (Paragraphe Lab, Université Paris 8). His work revolves around the notions of noise and knowledge, and more specifically the systems, methods and protocols that enable us to move from one to the other. To explore these questions, he works primarily through sound creation and creative writing, using digital tools.

His texts aim to dramatize the uncovering of information systems, revealing what situates them historically and culturally, to support the idea that we always build knowledge from somewhere. Conversely, he sees sound as an opportunity to return to noise, a primordial, chaotic state of unstable, abrasive possibilities. His PhD project studies study the notion of Computational Ideology, and its impact in our mediatic culture.

He lives and works in Nantes, where he is also a member of the Open It collective, running the Plongeoir artists’ studios in the Primil district. There, he develops a pole for digital production, and a practice as research residency program.

​Program flow (drop into Luma “Schedule”)

• ​3:45pm - Doors, get settled, light soundcheck

• ​4:00pm - Introduction, forewords

• ​4:10pm - Noise intervention: melodia atomizacji (excerpt)

• ​4:20pm - Residency talk: training models as method

• ​4:50pm - Q&A / discussion

• ​5:20pm - Close

​Accessibility & care

​This event takes place on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples. The room is accessible; if you have access needs (seating, sensory breaks, captions), tell us in RSVP and we’ll sort it.

​Photo/recording note

​We may capture ambient documentation for community archiving. If you prefer not to be photographed, let the door team know; we’ll give you a visible sticker.

​Institut français du Canada

​The Institut français du Canada was created in 2025 and is part of the Embassy of France in Canada. It aims to become a key tool for cooperation between France and Canada, helping to bring our two countries even closer together by promoting shared values and deepening mutual understanding of our differences through language, education, culture, and science.

​The Institut français du Canada aims to strengthen cooperation between our two countries by organizing cultural events, debates, residencies, etc. with various partners in Canada, using a multidisciplinary approach aimed at different audiences. The “Artificial Muse” residency belongs to the Résidences Ouest-Ouest program, created by the Institut français du Canada to develop artistic residencies between Western Canada and France.

​About BC + AI

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​About Metacreation Lab for Creative AI

​Driven by interdisciplinary collaborations involving scientists, experts in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, designers, and artists, the Metacreation Lab for Creative AI is at the forefront of the development of generative systems, whether these are embedded in interactive experiences or augmenting creative workflows in creative software.

​About Centre for Digital Media

​The CDM is where BC’s creative tech gets built in public. Grad students, faculty, and industry partners share studios turning briefs into working prototypes and research into tools people actually use. It’s hands-on, cross-disciplinary, and collaborative by default: designers sit with developers, artists sit with product folks, and teams ship, test, and iterate fast.