Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994 - Audio-Introduction

This is an Audio-Introduction from Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994 presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from 26 February 2026 to 30 August 2026

 

Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994 proposes an understanding of the Culture Lab as a medium in its own right: a form of interactive entertainment that operates through liveness and staged conditions for participation, eliciting specific behaviours from participants. As evidenced by materials in the Brian Boigon fonds at the CCA, these principles also structured Boigon's broader practice as an artist, data architect, and design theorist. The exhibition centres on Culture Lab, presenting previously unseen video recordings in an accelerated, thirty-six-channel display that fragments and recomposes the symposium's architecture. The symposia are contextualized alongside other projects—Cartoon Regulators, SpillVille, Splinters, and Speed Reading Tokyo—to demonstrate the multiple modalities through which Boigon approached the design of interactive media.

The CCA presents the Culture Lab as a study that reconsiders the emergence of digital technologies in cultural and architectural production at the turn of the millennium.