Saturday March 28, 2026 - 1pm-4pm

568 Richmond St. W, Toronto, Canada

A workshop on computer perception: attention, models, and how algorithms understand our world.

We spend a lot of time being seen by machines — cameras, phones, algorithms sorting through images of us without us knowing. Most of us are left with only a vague sense that something is happening, and no real way to look back.

Views from the Machine is for cultural practitioners, educators, facilitators, and curious thinkers who want to move beyond abstract conversations about AI and into direct, embodied experience with how these systems actually work.

Through hands-on exercises in drawing, collaging, and making — and watching what various vision models pay attention to in real time — participants develop an intuitive, grounded understanding of computer perception that no explainer article can provide.

Over the course of the workshop, we invite participants to:

• Experience firsthand how machine attention differs from human perception

• Develop playful, low-stakes methods for demystifying algorithmic systems

• Build confidence in explaining abstract technical concepts through tangible, embodied practice

• Engage critically with AI outside the familiar frames of productivity, efficiency, or fear

Participants in Views from the Machine will walk away with:

• Tangible facilitation methods for introducing algorithmic literacy to non-technical audiences

• A personal framework for engaging critically and creatively with digital technologies

• Clarity in articulating their own values and perspectives on algorithmic systems

• A shared experience with a small community of people asking the same kinds of questions

No technical background required. No computers to bring. Just your hands, your attention, and your willingness to be a little surprised by what the machine finds interesting.

At a moment when Artificial Intelligence saturates every part of life: work, creativity, story, and identity, Call of the Void offers a deep cultural reframing to reorient how we relate to it.

Call of the Void is for thinkers, artists, cultural workers, and professionals who want to explore technology not as a tool to continue driving endless exploitation, but as a cultural force we inhabit and interrogate.

Over the 4 sessions, we invite participants to:

• Surface assumptions about technology, nature, and culture

• Explore how culture and technology shape each other

• Develop personal frameworks for ecological storytelling

• Cultivate sincerity, relationality, and generosity over efficiency and extraction

Participants in Call of the Void will work towards:

• A clearer sense of their personal and cultural relationship with Artificial Intelligence

• Tools to articulate critical perspectives on technology’s ecological and social impact

• A framework for meaningful, non-instrumental engagement with complex systems

• A community of peers exploring similar questions

Join this program to explore how to reclaim agency within the rapidly changing landscape and go beyond simply coping with technology.