Vancouver AI: April 30
We don’t do panels. We do portals.
The Vancouver AI Community Meetups welcome all those interested in the future of AI – reearchers, artists, geeks, enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, experts, students and more!
🎶 Revival by K-Phi-A Collective 🎶
A live-coded séance where the dead composers hum through machines and the living riff with the ghosts.
K-Phi-A is co-composing with AI trained on both their own sonic DNA and the archived echoes of long-gone masters. Built inside the Metacreation Lab’s bleeding-edge creative stack, Revival is what happens when generative systems stop imitating and start improvising.
This isn’t some tech demo disguised as art. It’s a negotiation between human intent and algorithmic suggestion. Messy, responsive, alive.
The sound? Electroacoustic meets experimental electronic—stitched in real time. The visuals? Autolume by VJ Amagi—a custom visual synthesizer that listens, reacts, and refuses to behave.
Revival isn’t here to entertain. It’s here to challenge your definitions of authorship, presence, and what it means to collaborate with code.
No nostalgia. No singular genius myth. Just a deep dive into what’s next when we stop asking if AI can create—and start asking what it’s creating with us.
See you in the feedback loop.
VANCOUVER AI CORE MEMBERSHIP
Vancouver AI CORE just booted up. 12-month passport to every gathering. Backdoor access to our Members Group Chat & Knowledge Base for raw, unfiltered dialogues. Something built by the community, for the community.
Initialize: https://core.bc-ai.net/
This isn't subscription content—it's community infrastructure. The digital campfire where tomorrow's questions get asked today.
THE $10K DATA STORYTELLING HACKATHON:
Brittney and the folks at Rival Technologies are tired of data that doesn't say anything. They're throwing serious money ($2,500 per winner across four rounds) at people who can make numbers tell stories that actually matter.
Round 1 submission deadline: April 16. Detailed rules at the event or by telepathically communicating with the organizers.
THE SPACE:
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St. The place with the UFO-looking roof that makes you feel like you're discussing AI in the appropriate sci-fi setting. Fully accessible. Parking available for your carbon-producing vehicles. Transit nearby.
Expect:
Raw, unfiltered insights from the bleeding edge
Deep dives into the philosophical quandaries of our time
Hands-on exploration of tools that are reshaping reality
Real talk about the promises and perils ahead
This is a space for:
The curious and the courageous
The skeptics and the dreamers
Those who see technology not as an end, but as a means to amplify human potential
Anyone ready to engage with the big questions of our time
THE SPONSORS:
Dimitri Schwartzman: Real estate guy who funds community stuff instead of just buying yachts
SEGEV LLP: Lawyers who can talk about tech without reading from Wikipedia
METACREATION Lab: Researchers who understand AI should make art, not just surveillance tech
TheUpgrade.ai: AI education & adoption for businesses and teams.
THE PARTNERS:
HR MacMillan Space Centre: Letting us use their cosmic dome
Creative Mornings Vancouver: Morning people who somehow still have good ideas
MOVE37XR: Extending reality while the rest of us still struggle with this one
CMPFYR: The folks at cmpfyr.co doing... actually we're not entirely sure but it's cool
GET INVOLVED:
Want to speak? Have an insight that isn't "AI will change everything"?
Built something weird? Demo spots open.
Join the community: Get in the Vancouver AI CORE Group where the real conversations happen
THE FINE PRINT:
Limited to 200 human bodies
Will sell out, just like every other VAI event
Bring stickers to trade. Yes, we're serious. Analog connection in a digital world.
Photography & video will happen. Your mug might end up online. If you're in witness protection, wear a fake mustache.
QUESTIONS? EXISTENTIAL DREAD?
Contact: kris@motleykrugmedia.com | 778.898.3076
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The machines are watching. Let's give them something worth the bandwidth.
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