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The climate crisis is often framed as an environmental problem, but perhaps it is equally a cultural one.

What persists is not only infrastructure or policy, but a collective failure of imagination—an inability to evaluate, contest, or refuse the systems we have inherited.

Art alone cannot solve this. Yet the ways we make, gather, build, and live remain inseparable from the realities we continue to normalize.

Imagination, like any material practice, must be cultivated. Through experimentation, play, and cultural encounter, new relationships to climate—and to one another—become possible.

The climate crisis is often framed as an environmental problem, but perhaps it is equally a cultural one.

What persists is not only infrastructure or policy, but a collective failure of imagination—an inability to evaluate, contest, or refuse the systems we have inherited.

Art alone cannot solve this. Yet the ways we make, gather, build, and live remain inseparable from the realities we continue to normalize.

Imagination, like any material practice, must be cultivated. Through experimentation, play, and cultural encounter, new relationships to climate—and to one another—become possible.

The climate crisis is often framed as an environmental problem, but perhaps it is equally a cultural one.

What persists is not only infrastructure or policy, but a collective failure of imagination—an inability to evaluate, contest, or refuse the systems we have inherited.

Art alone cannot solve this. Yet the ways we make, gather, build, and live remain inseparable from the realities we continue to normalize.

Imagination, like any material practice, must be cultivated. Through experimentation, play, and cultural encounter, new relationships to climate—and to one another—become possible.

The climate crisis is often framed as an environmental problem, but perhaps it is equally a cultural one.

What persists is not only infrastructure or policy, but a collective failure of imagination—an inability to evaluate, contest, or refuse the systems we have inherited.

Art alone cannot solve this. Yet the ways we make, gather, build, and live remain inseparable from the realities we continue to normalize.

Imagination, like any material practice, must be cultivated. Through experimentation, play, and cultural encounter, new relationships to climate—and to one another—become possible.

It’s official! This community partnership between @ukaiprojects and @torontoclimateweek will be a site of imaginaries and myth-making. Come join us first week of June for a very different approach to what we need for new climate futures.

All of it—the reading in the park (co-produced with @bookclubtoronto.ca ), the listening attentively, the ferality, the conversation, the silence, the music, the warm cup of coffee in a wonky hand-made mug—points toward the same practice: learning to be in relationship with a world that is not a backdrop to human activity but a participant in it.

Climate action framed only as sacrifice or catastrophe asks people to give things up when what’s available is already scarce. It rarely asks them to fall in love with what remains, with what is still strange and worth knowing, with the particular quality of light or the swoosh of leaves in the wind in a specific place at a specific time of year that will never be exactly replicated.

Arts and culture carry this capacity—not to make people feel better about the crisis, but to situate ourselves in the living world as something worth forging a relationship with.

The climate movement needs new mythologies written through the pursuit of aesthetics, beauty, and meaning, among them a feral one, or even a grotesque one.
Nostalgia that aims to restore the past is not the answer.

We must focus our attention on building the capacity to dream of a different future once again.

Thank you to @canada.council and @foallangardens

It’s official! This community partnership between @ukaiprojects and @torontoclimateweek will be a site of imaginaries and myth-making. Come join us first week of June for a very different approach to what we need for new climate futures.

All of it—the reading in the park (co-produced with @bookclubtoronto.ca ), the listening attentively, the ferality, the conversation, the silence, the music, the warm cup of coffee in a wonky hand-made mug—points toward the same practice: learning to be in relationship with a world that is not a backdrop to human activity but a participant in it.

Climate action framed only as sacrifice or catastrophe asks people to give things up when what’s available is already scarce. It rarely asks them to fall in love with what remains, with what is still strange and worth knowing, with the particular quality of light or the swoosh of leaves in the wind in a specific place at a specific time of year that will never be exactly replicated.

Arts and culture carry this capacity—not to make people feel better about the crisis, but to situate ourselves in the living world as something worth forging a relationship with.

The climate movement needs new mythologies written through the pursuit of aesthetics, beauty, and meaning, among them a feral one, or even a grotesque one.
Nostalgia that aims to restore the past is not the answer.

We must focus our attention on building the capacity to dream of a different future once again.

Thank you to @canada.council and @foallangardens

It’s official! This community partnership between @ukaiprojects and @torontoclimateweek will be a site of imaginaries and myth-making. Come join us first week of June for a very different approach to what we need for new climate futures.

All of it—the reading in the park (co-produced with @bookclubtoronto.ca ), the listening attentively, the ferality, the conversation, the silence, the music, the warm cup of coffee in a wonky hand-made mug—points toward the same practice: learning to be in relationship with a world that is not a backdrop to human activity but a participant in it.

Climate action framed only as sacrifice or catastrophe asks people to give things up when what’s available is already scarce. It rarely asks them to fall in love with what remains, with what is still strange and worth knowing, with the particular quality of light or the swoosh of leaves in the wind in a specific place at a specific time of year that will never be exactly replicated.

Arts and culture carry this capacity—not to make people feel better about the crisis, but to situate ourselves in the living world as something worth forging a relationship with.

The climate movement needs new mythologies written through the pursuit of aesthetics, beauty, and meaning, among them a feral one, or even a grotesque one.
Nostalgia that aims to restore the past is not the answer.

We must focus our attention on building the capacity to dream of a different future once again.

Thank you to @canada.council and @foallangardens

It’s official! This community partnership between @ukaiprojects and @torontoclimateweek will be a site of imaginaries and myth-making. Come join us first week of June for a very different approach to what we need for new climate futures.

All of it—the reading in the park (co-produced with @bookclubtoronto.ca ), the listening attentively, the ferality, the conversation, the silence, the music, the warm cup of coffee in a wonky hand-made mug—points toward the same practice: learning to be in relationship with a world that is not a backdrop to human activity but a participant in it.

Climate action framed only as sacrifice or catastrophe asks people to give things up when what’s available is already scarce. It rarely asks them to fall in love with what remains, with what is still strange and worth knowing, with the particular quality of light or the swoosh of leaves in the wind in a specific place at a specific time of year that will never be exactly replicated.

Arts and culture carry this capacity—not to make people feel better about the crisis, but to situate ourselves in the living world as something worth forging a relationship with.

The climate movement needs new mythologies written through the pursuit of aesthetics, beauty, and meaning, among them a feral one, or even a grotesque one.
Nostalgia that aims to restore the past is not the answer.

We must focus our attention on building the capacity to dream of a different future once again.

Thank you to @canada.council and @foallangardens

and the music to our ears @xychaa 🎧🎶

At UKAI Husna shapes and maintains the ecosystem in which we create, you can catch her playing soft sounds coordinating art spaces and pondering🔮

Photo by @0928ul6

and the music to our ears @xychaa 🎧🎶

At UKAI Husna shapes and maintains the ecosystem in which we create, you can catch her playing soft sounds coordinating art spaces and pondering🔮

Photo by @0928ul6

Our studio director is a creative powerhouse spanning between words, sound, collective practices, goblin activities @goblins_everywhere and glass @_ai_na.objects

Ultimately @luisalyji creates poetic other worlds through her creations ☆。๑ ､♡

photo by @0928ul6

Our studio director is a creative powerhouse spanning between words, sound, collective practices, goblin activities @goblins_everywhere and glass @_ai_na.objects

Ultimately @luisalyji creates poetic other worlds through her creations ☆。๑ ､♡

photo by @0928ul6

All things tech report to @blapcode 🫡

In addition to his role as the XR Development Lead here at UKAI Projects, Ben is the program lead of creative tech education collective @softlaunch_net and a software developer across web, games, digital realtime creative applications, and TouchDesigner.

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Portrait by 📸 @0928ul6

All things tech report to @blapcode 🫡

In addition to his role as the XR Development Lead here at UKAI Projects, Ben is the program lead of creative tech education collective @softlaunch_net and a software developer across web, games, digital realtime creative applications, and TouchDesigner.

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Portrait by 📸 @0928ul6

ೃ࿔꩜ Welcoming a new UKAI team member@goblins_everywhere goblin and artist - @abbeyspiral ꩜.ೃ࿔

photo by @nastia.spvk

ೃ࿔꩜ Welcoming a new UKAI team member@goblins_everywhere goblin and artist - @abbeyspiral ꩜.ೃ࿔

photo by @nastia.spvk

Saturday, June 6 | 5:30 PM - 11:00 PM

@foallangardens Children’s Conservatory

Conversation + performances @torontoclimateweek

🦝🦝🦝

We do our bit. We name the species disappearing, we grieve the glaciers, we make the data pressing and elegant.
And still, the conditions that produce inaction remain largely untouched: our scripts about crisis somehow have not yet disturbed our day-to-day scripts that maintain the current order.
At the same time, our decisions, interactions, and language are increasingly scripted by systems with no body, no home, and therefore no existential stake. These algorithmic systems and artificial intelligences, severed from place, from grief, and from meaning, pose not only a serious environmental question, they pose essential questions about our public imagination and how culture is made and unmade.
If we understand that aesthetic choices are decisive, that language shapes possibilities, and that our cultural myths and scripts (whether historically or mechanistically scripted) are the breeding grounds of climate complacency….....how do we go FERAL?!

​This night begins with a talk “Feral ecologies & mythologies for a feral public imagination” with Bianca Wylie, @apureapparatus facilitated by @luisalyji and ends with performances by artists @dorraamusic, @paleeyesmusic , and more that bring ferality to cataclysmic, delightful fruition. Through artistic-cultural processes and interventions rooted in eco-steme and hyperstition, this night is about imagining a feral mythology capable of co-creating an expansively feral future before the conditions for dreaming disappear.

Thank you @canada.council for supporting our programming on climate adaptation and cultural resilience

🦝
Journeying from ecology to cosmology ✨
Putting the cult back into culture ✨

Saturday, June 6 | 5:30 PM - 11:00 PM

@foallangardens Children’s Conservatory

Conversation + performances @torontoclimateweek

🦝🦝🦝

We do our bit. We name the species disappearing, we grieve the glaciers, we make the data pressing and elegant.
And still, the conditions that produce inaction remain largely untouched: our scripts about crisis somehow have not yet disturbed our day-to-day scripts that maintain the current order.
At the same time, our decisions, interactions, and language are increasingly scripted by systems with no body, no home, and therefore no existential stake. These algorithmic systems and artificial intelligences, severed from place, from grief, and from meaning, pose not only a serious environmental question, they pose essential questions about our public imagination and how culture is made and unmade.
If we understand that aesthetic choices are decisive, that language shapes possibilities, and that our cultural myths and scripts (whether historically or mechanistically scripted) are the breeding grounds of climate complacency….....how do we go FERAL?!

​This night begins with a talk “Feral ecologies & mythologies for a feral public imagination” with Bianca Wylie, @apureapparatus facilitated by @luisalyji and ends with performances by artists @dorraamusic, @paleeyesmusic , and more that bring ferality to cataclysmic, delightful fruition. Through artistic-cultural processes and interventions rooted in eco-steme and hyperstition, this night is about imagining a feral mythology capable of co-creating an expansively feral future before the conditions for dreaming disappear.

Thank you @canada.council for supporting our programming on climate adaptation and cultural resilience

🦝
Journeying from ecology to cosmology ✨
Putting the cult back into culture ✨

Saturday, June 6 | 5:30 PM - 11:00 PM

@foallangardens Children’s Conservatory

Conversation + performances @torontoclimateweek

🦝🦝🦝

We do our bit. We name the species disappearing, we grieve the glaciers, we make the data pressing and elegant.
And still, the conditions that produce inaction remain largely untouched: our scripts about crisis somehow have not yet disturbed our day-to-day scripts that maintain the current order.
At the same time, our decisions, interactions, and language are increasingly scripted by systems with no body, no home, and therefore no existential stake. These algorithmic systems and artificial intelligences, severed from place, from grief, and from meaning, pose not only a serious environmental question, they pose essential questions about our public imagination and how culture is made and unmade.
If we understand that aesthetic choices are decisive, that language shapes possibilities, and that our cultural myths and scripts (whether historically or mechanistically scripted) are the breeding grounds of climate complacency….....how do we go FERAL?!

​This night begins with a talk “Feral ecologies & mythologies for a feral public imagination” with Bianca Wylie, @apureapparatus facilitated by @luisalyji and ends with performances by artists @dorraamusic, @paleeyesmusic , and more that bring ferality to cataclysmic, delightful fruition. Through artistic-cultural processes and interventions rooted in eco-steme and hyperstition, this night is about imagining a feral mythology capable of co-creating an expansively feral future before the conditions for dreaming disappear.

Thank you @canada.council for supporting our programming on climate adaptation and cultural resilience

🦝
Journeying from ecology to cosmology ✨
Putting the cult back into culture ✨

pay-what-you-want | public event | June 5 1–3pm Allan Gardens Teaching Garden

@bookclubtoronto.ca and @ukaiprojects want you to READ OUTSIDE this summer @torontoclimateweek

Join @adrianlayner and @luisalyji for an afternoon session at the @foallangardens Teaching Garden.

🪴 About Book Club Toronto

Book Club Toronto is an open education platform and cultural hub founded by Adrian Layne, grounded in a long career across art, education, and community development. What started as a music book club and radio show on ISO Radio between two friends has grown into a public learning platform that uses books, music, art, and conversation to create shared spaces for thinking and exchange.
Book Club Toronto operates as a living classroom and third space, offering accessible, community-led learning beyond traditional institutions. Programming includes book clubs, radio shows, art exhibitions, music events, interviews, workshops, and public conversations, with an emphasis on participation, curiosity, and collective reflection.
The platform has collaborated with Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), SHEEEP Studio, DesignTO, Pepper’s Food and Drink, Run The Flex Dance Studio, and ISO Radio, among others. These partnerships support an approach to culture as an active, communal practice rather than a finished product.
Interested in structures beyond buildings, Book Club Toronto builds temporary and ongoing forms of community infrastructure through culture, supporting experimentation, shared learning, and cross-disciplinary exchange.
At its core, Book Club Toronto is about making education open, social, and rooted in lived experience.

pay-what-you-want | public event | June 5 1–3pm Allan Gardens Teaching Garden

@bookclubtoronto.ca and @ukaiprojects want you to READ OUTSIDE this summer @torontoclimateweek

Join @adrianlayner and @luisalyji for an afternoon session at the @foallangardens Teaching Garden.

🪴 About Book Club Toronto

Book Club Toronto is an open education platform and cultural hub founded by Adrian Layne, grounded in a long career across art, education, and community development. What started as a music book club and radio show on ISO Radio between two friends has grown into a public learning platform that uses books, music, art, and conversation to create shared spaces for thinking and exchange.
Book Club Toronto operates as a living classroom and third space, offering accessible, community-led learning beyond traditional institutions. Programming includes book clubs, radio shows, art exhibitions, music events, interviews, workshops, and public conversations, with an emphasis on participation, curiosity, and collective reflection.
The platform has collaborated with Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), SHEEEP Studio, DesignTO, Pepper’s Food and Drink, Run The Flex Dance Studio, and ISO Radio, among others. These partnerships support an approach to culture as an active, communal practice rather than a finished product.
Interested in structures beyond buildings, Book Club Toronto builds temporary and ongoing forms of community infrastructure through culture, supporting experimentation, shared learning, and cross-disciplinary exchange.
At its core, Book Club Toronto is about making education open, social, and rooted in lived experience.

pay-what-you-want | public event | June 5 1–3pm Allan Gardens Teaching Garden

@bookclubtoronto.ca and @ukaiprojects want you to READ OUTSIDE this summer @torontoclimateweek

Join @adrianlayner and @luisalyji for an afternoon session at the @foallangardens Teaching Garden.

🪴 About Book Club Toronto

Book Club Toronto is an open education platform and cultural hub founded by Adrian Layne, grounded in a long career across art, education, and community development. What started as a music book club and radio show on ISO Radio between two friends has grown into a public learning platform that uses books, music, art, and conversation to create shared spaces for thinking and exchange.
Book Club Toronto operates as a living classroom and third space, offering accessible, community-led learning beyond traditional institutions. Programming includes book clubs, radio shows, art exhibitions, music events, interviews, workshops, and public conversations, with an emphasis on participation, curiosity, and collective reflection.
The platform has collaborated with Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), SHEEEP Studio, DesignTO, Pepper’s Food and Drink, Run The Flex Dance Studio, and ISO Radio, among others. These partnerships support an approach to culture as an active, communal practice rather than a finished product.
Interested in structures beyond buildings, Book Club Toronto builds temporary and ongoing forms of community infrastructure through culture, supporting experimentation, shared learning, and cross-disciplinary exchange.
At its core, Book Club Toronto is about making education open, social, and rooted in lived experience.

pay-what-you-want | public event | June 5 1–3pm Allan Gardens Teaching Garden

@bookclubtoronto.ca and @ukaiprojects want you to READ OUTSIDE this summer @torontoclimateweek

Join @adrianlayner and @luisalyji for an afternoon session at the @foallangardens Teaching Garden.

🪴 About Book Club Toronto

Book Club Toronto is an open education platform and cultural hub founded by Adrian Layne, grounded in a long career across art, education, and community development. What started as a music book club and radio show on ISO Radio between two friends has grown into a public learning platform that uses books, music, art, and conversation to create shared spaces for thinking and exchange.
Book Club Toronto operates as a living classroom and third space, offering accessible, community-led learning beyond traditional institutions. Programming includes book clubs, radio shows, art exhibitions, music events, interviews, workshops, and public conversations, with an emphasis on participation, curiosity, and collective reflection.
The platform has collaborated with Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), SHEEEP Studio, DesignTO, Pepper’s Food and Drink, Run The Flex Dance Studio, and ISO Radio, among others. These partnerships support an approach to culture as an active, communal practice rather than a finished product.
Interested in structures beyond buildings, Book Club Toronto builds temporary and ongoing forms of community infrastructure through culture, supporting experimentation, shared learning, and cross-disciplinary exchange.
At its core, Book Club Toronto is about making education open, social, and rooted in lived experience.

pay-what-you-want | public event | June 5 1–3pm Allan Gardens Teaching Garden

@bookclubtoronto.ca and @ukaiprojects want you to READ OUTSIDE this summer @torontoclimateweek

Join @adrianlayner and @luisalyji for an afternoon session at the @foallangardens Teaching Garden.

🪴 About Book Club Toronto

Book Club Toronto is an open education platform and cultural hub founded by Adrian Layne, grounded in a long career across art, education, and community development. What started as a music book club and radio show on ISO Radio between two friends has grown into a public learning platform that uses books, music, art, and conversation to create shared spaces for thinking and exchange.
Book Club Toronto operates as a living classroom and third space, offering accessible, community-led learning beyond traditional institutions. Programming includes book clubs, radio shows, art exhibitions, music events, interviews, workshops, and public conversations, with an emphasis on participation, curiosity, and collective reflection.
The platform has collaborated with Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), SHEEEP Studio, DesignTO, Pepper’s Food and Drink, Run The Flex Dance Studio, and ISO Radio, among others. These partnerships support an approach to culture as an active, communal practice rather than a finished product.
Interested in structures beyond buildings, Book Club Toronto builds temporary and ongoing forms of community infrastructure through culture, supporting experimentation, shared learning, and cross-disciplinary exchange.
At its core, Book Club Toronto is about making education open, social, and rooted in lived experience.

A look at our Funeral last month—sound, dumpster fire, and burial mound, culminating into a moment that we need. There will be more.

Whatever you buried, it is deep now. We are in spring.

Photography: Benjamin Lappalainen

A look at our Funeral last month—sound, dumpster fire, and burial mound, culminating into a moment that we need. There will be more.

Whatever you buried, it is deep now. We are in spring.

Photography: Benjamin Lappalainen

A look at our Funeral last month—sound, dumpster fire, and burial mound, culminating into a moment that we need. There will be more.

Whatever you buried, it is deep now. We are in spring.

Photography: Benjamin Lappalainen

A look at our Funeral last month—sound, dumpster fire, and burial mound, culminating into a moment that we need. There will be more.

Whatever you buried, it is deep now. We are in spring.

Photography: Benjamin Lappalainen

A look at our Funeral last month—sound, dumpster fire, and burial mound, culminating into a moment that we need. There will be more.

Whatever you buried, it is deep now. We are in spring.

Photography: Benjamin Lappalainen

A look at our Funeral last month—sound, dumpster fire, and burial mound, culminating into a moment that we need. There will be more.

Whatever you buried, it is deep now. We are in spring.

Photography: Benjamin Lappalainen

A look at our Funeral last month—sound, dumpster fire, and burial mound, culminating into a moment that we need. There will be more.

Whatever you buried, it is deep now. We are in spring.

Photography: Benjamin Lappalainen

A look at our Funeral last month—sound, dumpster fire, and burial mound, culminating into a moment that we need. There will be more.

Whatever you buried, it is deep now. We are in spring.

Photography: Benjamin Lappalainen

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 and gained a new outlook on listening, community-building, and on how our local art scene can become more resilient by connecting with global networks.
 
Leaving an extractive content streaming platform (like the one that starts with an “s“ and ends with a “y”) 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.

Cover photo by @_markemery
Interview: @luisalyji

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 and gained a new outlook on listening, community-building, and on how our local art scene can become more resilient by connecting with global networks.
 
Leaving an extractive content streaming platform (like the one that starts with an “s“ and ends with a “y”) 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.

Cover photo by @_markemery
Interview: @luisalyji

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 and gained a new outlook on listening, community-building, and on how our local art scene can become more resilient by connecting with global networks.
 
Leaving an extractive content streaming platform (like the one that starts with an “s“ and ends with a “y”) 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.

Cover photo by @_markemery
Interview: @luisalyji

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 and gained a new outlook on listening, community-building, and on how our local art scene can become more resilient by connecting with global networks.
 
Leaving an extractive content streaming platform (like the one that starts with an “s“ and ends with a “y”) 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.

Cover photo by @_markemery
Interview: @luisalyji

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 and gained a new outlook on listening, community-building, and on how our local art scene can become more resilient by connecting with global networks.
 
Leaving an extractive content streaming platform (like the one that starts with an “s“ and ends with a “y”) 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.

Cover photo by @_markemery
Interview: @luisalyji

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 and gained a new outlook on listening, community-building, and on how our local art scene can become more resilient by connecting with global networks.
 
Leaving an extractive content streaming platform (like the one that starts with an “s“ and ends with a “y”) 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.

Cover photo by @_markemery
Interview: @luisalyji

Thank you for the marvellous Q1. Here are the stats. We are, in fact, not allowed to profit from being a non-profit. Follow, comment, like, subscribe, share, repost...rinse & repeat. 🐹 —yours truly, UKAI Projects (second gen)

Thank you for the marvellous Q1. Here are the stats. We are, in fact, not allowed to profit from being a non-profit. Follow, comment, like, subscribe, share, repost...rinse & repeat. 🐹 —yours truly, UKAI Projects (second gen)

Thank you for the marvellous Q1. Here are the stats. We are, in fact, not allowed to profit from being a non-profit. Follow, comment, like, subscribe, share, repost...rinse & repeat. 🐹 —yours truly, UKAI Projects (second gen)

Your field is being reshaped by AI, and people around you seem fine with it. You’ve heard again and again that you need to use AI to not fall behind, but something feels off.

Call of the Void is an invitation to think more carefully (and less alone) about what's actually happening. Coping is not a strategy. We are here to interrogate it.

Small group, no slop. Four weeks of intimate and in-depth discussions to help you develop your own perspectives and approaches on topics like AI, technology, and their implications.

Who is it for?

* Artists and cultural practitioners navigating tech-inflected change
* Researchers, writers, and designers exploring AI’s cultural implications
* Any curious professional ready to question dominant narratives about intelligence, efficiency, and progress
* People seeking frameworks that connect ecology, technology, and cultural meaning

Read More via ukaiprojects.com/programs
Work trade and access support are available.

Your field is being reshaped by AI, and people around you seem fine with it. You’ve heard again and again that you need to use AI to not fall behind, but something feels off.

Call of the Void is an invitation to think more carefully (and less alone) about what's actually happening. Coping is not a strategy. We are here to interrogate it.

Small group, no slop. Four weeks of intimate and in-depth discussions to help you develop your own perspectives and approaches on topics like AI, technology, and their implications.

Who is it for?

* Artists and cultural practitioners navigating tech-inflected change
* Researchers, writers, and designers exploring AI’s cultural implications
* Any curious professional ready to question dominant narratives about intelligence, efficiency, and progress
* People seeking frameworks that connect ecology, technology, and cultural meaning

Read More via ukaiprojects.com/programs
Work trade and access support are available.

Your field is being reshaped by AI, and people around you seem fine with it. You’ve heard again and again that you need to use AI to not fall behind, but something feels off.

Call of the Void is an invitation to think more carefully (and less alone) about what's actually happening. Coping is not a strategy. We are here to interrogate it.

Small group, no slop. Four weeks of intimate and in-depth discussions to help you develop your own perspectives and approaches on topics like AI, technology, and their implications.

Who is it for?

* Artists and cultural practitioners navigating tech-inflected change
* Researchers, writers, and designers exploring AI’s cultural implications
* Any curious professional ready to question dominant narratives about intelligence, efficiency, and progress
* People seeking frameworks that connect ecology, technology, and cultural meaning

Read More via ukaiprojects.com/programs
Work trade and access support are available.

Your field is being reshaped by AI, and people around you seem fine with it. You’ve heard again and again that you need to use AI to not fall behind, but something feels off.

Call of the Void is an invitation to think more carefully (and less alone) about what's actually happening. Coping is not a strategy. We are here to interrogate it.

Small group, no slop. Four weeks of intimate and in-depth discussions to help you develop your own perspectives and approaches on topics like AI, technology, and their implications.

Who is it for?

* Artists and cultural practitioners navigating tech-inflected change
* Researchers, writers, and designers exploring AI’s cultural implications
* Any curious professional ready to question dominant narratives about intelligence, efficiency, and progress
* People seeking frameworks that connect ecology, technology, and cultural meaning

Read More via ukaiprojects.com/programs
Work trade and access support are available.

Your field is being reshaped by AI, and people around you seem fine with it. You’ve heard again and again that you need to use AI to not fall behind, but something feels off.

Call of the Void is an invitation to think more carefully (and less alone) about what's actually happening. Coping is not a strategy. We are here to interrogate it.

Small group, no slop. Four weeks of intimate and in-depth discussions to help you develop your own perspectives and approaches on topics like AI, technology, and their implications.

Who is it for?

* Artists and cultural practitioners navigating tech-inflected change
* Researchers, writers, and designers exploring AI’s cultural implications
* Any curious professional ready to question dominant narratives about intelligence, efficiency, and progress
* People seeking frameworks that connect ecology, technology, and cultural meaning

Read More via ukaiprojects.com/programs
Work trade and access support are available.