Bria Cole
Producer & Project Lead
Arts & Technology, Built Environment, Community Infrastructure
Arts & Technology, Built Environment, Community Infrastructure
About
Writing
Teaching
LEO
2024–2026Producer and Creative Director
Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Greenhouse
Ontario Arts Council
Project Report
“AI-TO-AUDIENCE: Building LEO, a Real-Time AI Character, with Performing Artists.” (2026)
Attraction of Nipples
2014Director
A man and a woman meet in a bar—but their encounter is unlike other stories that begin this way. The end of their short story is abruptly tragic.Writer: Amanda Feder
Producers: Jessica Kingdon, Cedric Cheung
Director of Photography: Mitch Blummer
Editor: Amílcar Cariño Charlemagne
Starring: Nicole Cardoni and Hunter Hoffman
Selected for the New York for the Arts Program
People Design
Co-op
2022–PresentBoard Director
Selected ProjectsScatter Stories, 2024Director, producer, editor, Short Documentary
Featuring Circle Community Land Trust
Cooperative Membership Research, 2022
Researcher
Proposal, Workshops, Governance
Philip Beesley Studio
2019–2021Development Director
Selected ProjectsThreshold, 2021Proposal Director, Permanent Public Art Commission,
Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport
LASG Symposium 2019 White Papers and Proceedings
Publication designer and coordinator,
Living Architecture Systems Group
Davenport CLT
2025–2026Organizational Development Coordinator
About
Working between film, cultural institutions and the built environment, I’ve produced projects across Canada, the United States and Europe, from a $1.5M permanent public art commission for San José International Airport to LEO, a real-time AI performance supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
I teach at Humber Polytechnic in the Faculty of Media, Creative Arts and Design, and lead organisational development at the Davenport Community Land Trust in Toronto.
MA Media Studies, The New School
MArch, University of Toronto
Writing
AI-TO-AUDIENCE:
Building LEO, a Real-Time AI Character, with Performing Artists
Project Report2026
Art Observed
Art Reporting, Various2014–2016
Promissory Horizons: Beautiful City Billboard Fee
Essay, Immediacy Journal2013Teaching
Humber Polytechnic
Professor,Faculty of Media, Creative Arts and Design2023–Present
InterAccess
Educator and Fabrication Consultant2023–2025
University of Toronto
Lead Lecturer, Curriculum Development,Film and Architecture Camp 2020–2021