LEO
ABOUT
An 6ft AI character processes voice, movement, and context in real-time, engaging visitors in unscripted exchanges. LEO's responses evolve through audience interaction, while a visual interface reveals the AI systems at work.
Developed by media artists, performers, and engineers to explore the possibilities in the conversational and interactive capabilities blending performing artistry and AI.
2025 EXHIBITION
Current Project Status
The AI-TO-AUDIENCE project brings together a multidisciplinary team with expertise across media arts, architecture, conceptual design, and software engineering.
Bria Cole brings her multidisciplinary background as a media storyteller, spatial designer, and educator, merging narrative, design, and cultural spaces.
Keira Liu combines expertise in product design and motion graphics with experience crafting digital experiences, bringing together UX design and 3D animation.
David Mattiacci contributes his extensive expertise in concept art, digital media, gaming environments, and visual storytelling.
Evan Simpson is a software engineer specializing in machine learning applications, with a background in medical imaging, cybernetics, and robotics scholarly research.
Together, these artists bring diverse creative and technical perspectives to explore the making of Leo at the intersection of AI, performing arts, and immersive experiences.
The Bridge Presented by Bygone Theatre
Building bridges to an unknown culture
The Bridge is an anti-disciplinary art space in downtown Toronto that empowers artists from all backgrounds by providing essential infrastructure and unwavering support. It serves as a powerful symbol, bridging the gaps between the past and the future, art and technology, the extractive and the generative, and knowing and unknowing.
Humber PolytechnicFaculty of Media, Creative Arts and Design
A catalyst for innovative multi- and interdisciplinary creative work, the Faculty of Media, Creative Arts and Design at Humber College offers the most comprehensive mix of media, design, arts and communications programs in Canada. We specialize in storytelling of all forms: journalism and writing; film, acting and television; advertising and public relations; interaction design and animation; industrial, interior and graphic design; music and fine arts.
This project is generously supported by the
Canada Council for the Arts
Digital Greenhouse Grant 2024.
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