I received (via email) a November 25, 2025 notice from Toronto’s ArtSci Salon about some December 2025 art/science events (available online here) being held in Toronto, Note: Some links have been removed,

THE BODY ELECTRIC

Exhibition & Performances
December 5, 6 & 7th, 2025

at Charles Street Video,
76 Geary Ave, Toronto

Opening, reception and performances:
Friday, December 5th at 6pm,
performances start at 7pm.

Exhibition Open to Public:
Saturday, December 6th and Sunday, December 7th
from 12pm – 4pm. 

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Inspired by Walt Whitman’s visionary poem “I Sing the Body Electric,” this exhibition reimagines the body as a network of electric impulses, voltages, and signals that both generate and transmit lived experiences. Body Electric brings together artists, researchers, performers, and technologists who explore the inner electrical life of the human body through biophysical sensing.

By capturing physiological signals such as brainwaves (EEG), heart rhythms (ECG), and muscle activity (EMG), the exhibition reveals the hidden languages of the body — not as metaphor, but as material, as data, as expression.

Body Electric features contributions from York University faculty, students, and international collaborators. The exhibition builds a living bridge between the past and the present, connecting analogue pioneers with today’s generative futures, and invites us to look into the future with an open and curious mind.

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Biophysical Movement and Emotion as Computational Interfaces (bioMECI) Workshop 
Charles Street Video, 76 Geary Ave, Toronto
Free with registration (same workshop both days):

Workshop 1: December 13th, 10am–6pm register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1934433134579

[or]

Workshop 2: December 14th, 10am–6pm register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1941956487129

This Workshop is a collaborative workshop centred on biophysical data, computational art, and performance. At the centre of this workshop is the biophysical sensing toolkit, called The Source (www.biomeci.com). The Source is a wearable device solution for full-spectrum biophysical sensing that integrates with commonly used software platforms, enabling its use in the maker and arts communities. Data gathered from The Source is analyzed using hardware and software tools that interface with popular platforms such as Arduino, Max/MSP, SuperCollider, Ableton Live, TouchDesigner, and Processing. The Source provides real-time access to signals from the brain, heart, muscles, skin and eyes and more. This modular system empowers artists to create responsive artworks that engage directly with the body’s inner states.

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Here’s more about the exhibition and performances, from the Charles Street Video project webpage,

Inspired by Walt Whitman’s visionary poem “I Sing the Body Electric,” this exhibition …

Electricity governs life on Earth at every scale, from small molecular organisms to sophisticated evolved beings. In the human body, in particular, electricity presents itself as the firing of neurons, the pulse of the heart, the conductivity of the skin, and the flux of emotional states. This exhibition foregrounds electricity not only as a force of animation, but as a creative medium — a raw, natural element that artists can sense, shape, and translate. The electric medium is further carried into the technological domain as a means of instrumentation and expression of gathered data from the human body. Through interactive installations, performances, and sonic-visual systems, Body Electric invites audiences to witness how the body thinks, feels, and reacts beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of the human not as a fixed entity, but as an ever-changing field of affective and electrical relations.

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About the artists

The programme will feature a series of interactive installations, including body-physiology sensing chairs originally conceptualized by artist Alan Macy, a retrospective of the work of artist, composer, and scholar David Rosenboom, and installations by artists from York University’s nD::StudioLab (https://www.ndstudiolab.com/), including Ilze Briede [Kavi], Kwame Kyei-Boateng, Kyle Duffield, Mark-David Hosale, Hrysovalanti Maheras, and Nava Waxman.

It will also include live performances, among them

a new work by composer Gene Coleman with violinist Amy Hillis from York’s Music Department;

a performance by The Global Organoid Orchestra (GOO); and a set by the live-coding collective The Endemics.

The Global Organoid Orchestra (GOO) includes:
*Mark-David Hosale and Ilze Briede [Kavi] in Toronto;
*Diarmid Flatley, Marcos Novak, Iason Paterakis, and Nefeli Manoudaki in Santa Barbara;
*and collaborators at the Kosik Neurobiology Lab, UC Santa Barbara (Ken Kosik, Director),
*along with Tjitse van der Molen and Eve Bodnia.

The Endemics consists of
*Ilze Briede [Kavi] and
*Hrysovalanti Maheras.

bioMECI: Biophysical Movement and Emotion as Computational Interface

You can find out more about bioMECI here and about the Body Electric’s bioMECI workshops here.