For scientists & science trainees
Introductory Workshop
March 5, 2026
10:30am – 12:30pm Eastern
In-person; exclusively for U of T’s Acceleration Consortium
Tentatively May 15, 2026 (TBC)
12:00pm – 1:00pm Eastern
Online; open to all. RSVP here.
Summer Intensive (6 weeks)
May-June 2026, dates TBC
How can art help create entry points into scientific innovation, helping to make the complex visible, data beautiful, and research accessible? Beyond scientific illustration, what do artists and artistic methods have to offer scientific discovery? Do you need to be an artist to engage in art-based knowledge mobilization?
This introductory workshop to the upcoming intensive presents some examples to inspire and expand the scientific imagination when it comes to knowledge mobilization. Join us for a look at the ways that artists work with data, and how scientific inquiry gets made into art. Together, we’ll explore ways that accelerated discovery can engage in innovative art-making.
Why art for knowledge mobilization/knowledge translation? Art can bring people onboard, open up space for dialogue across disciplines and publics, and create new portals between research and the people it affects. Creative inquiry can shape scientific inquiry itself, surfacing questions, structures, and meanings that conventional practice might overlook.
Whether you want to collaborate with artists, or want to experiment with making art yourself… Whether you are an artist already, or you’re ready to discover your hidden creative talents, this workshop and the upcoming summer intensive are made for you.
Workshop Co-Facilitators
Arnold Koroshegyi is an award-winning artist working in photography, intermedia, and installation, with exhibitions across Canada, the United States, and Europe. His practice explores the impact of technology and social consciousness on landscape through hybrid image-making that combines photography, locative media, and information aesthetics. His photographic series and research examine impermanence and the marginal within shifting social and physical environments. Koroshegyi lives in Toronto and is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC).
Helen Yung is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and consultant. She leads the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence which is an artist-driven transdisciplinary research group that specializes in reimagining how things work in the world. Her projects on What Art Knows span the fields of immigration, astrophysics, and reproductive technologies. She has taught at UTSC and was an artist-researcher-in-residence from 2022-2023. She continues to collaborate with U of T scholars, receiving funding from Compute Ontario, and more recently, from SSHRC to mobilize ‘artistic intelligence’ internationally.