Generative AI: from human movement to visual creation

    Lab7 December 7, 2025

    From the very beginning of image generation using artificial intelligence, LAB7’s creative director Samuel Tétreault envisioned the creative potential of this technology used in a dialogue with live performance and human movement. We went through several iterations to explore generative AI tools as they were evolving, to bring this vision to life.  For our first exploration in 2023, we simply used artificial intelligence to transform pre-recorded videos, confirming the creative potential of our concept. Then one of our interns, a computer engineer graduating student, built a first prototype of a solution to create a “live” interaction between human movement and generative AI. This pipeline combined a…

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  • BEATS in Prototyping at LAB7

    Lab7

    BEATS COLLECTIVE took the interactive and participatory dimensions of their show one step further thanks to the prototyping support program offered by Les 7 Doigts and the SAT.     BEATS is a project…

    October 22, 2025
  • UTOPIA: from rave to live performance

    Lab7

    Festival Illusion participated in the prototyping support program run by Les 7 Doigts and SAT to explore a new performance language combining electronic music, dance, circus, digital arts, and artificial intelligence.  The UTOPIA project…

    October 22, 2025
  • HANNOVER MESSE

    Lab7 The 7 Fingers

    We had the honor of opening HANNOVER MESSE, the world’s largest industrial technology trade fair, with a performance directed by Patrick Léonard, in collaboration with the remarkable Toronto-based Indigenous company Red Sky Performance and our sister…

    June 17, 2025
  • Publication of two guides for live arts professionals

    Lab7

    LAB7 is proud to announce the publication of two guides, co-authored with our research partner Centre HUPR. These guides bring together the knowledge acquired during our joint projects and experiments, while drawing on targeted…

    February 1, 2025
  • Drop The Act – Project Launch

    Lab7

    November 2024  On November 8, 2024, we took part in the launch of the Drop The Act project in our studios. A project by the trampoline artists’ collective of the same name: Didier Stowe,…

    January 30, 2025
  • Forum LAB7 – 2nd edition

    Lab7

    November 2024 Watch the replay The second edition of the LAB7 Forum took place at the 7 Fingers Creative Center on November 7, 2024. We welcomed around a hundred people on site and 60…

    January 29, 2025
  • The LAB7 at Microsoft Global Hackathon

    Lab7

    September 2024  We are incredibly proud to have been the only performing arts company invited to the Microsoft Global Hackathon in September 2024!  This recognition highlights the progress made by Lab7 and our innovation…

    January 29, 2025
  • The 7 Fingers at Atelier Grand Nord XR

    Lab7

    April 2024 Les 7 Doigts was selected by SODEC as one of seven teams to take part in the Atelier Grand Nord XR 2024. We’re very proud to have been part of this fine…

    January 29, 2025