Filed under: Ministry of Next
Est. 2026, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
Creative Lab for Future Forms

THE MINISTRY OF NEXT

01 / Creative lab for future forms

An independent creative lab working across art, emerging technology and public experience.

Founded by artist and creative director Erica Lapadat-Janzen in Vancouver. We make generative images, installations, performances and public programs.

Creative Direction / Artist-Built Systems / Live Participation / Exhibition & Public Programming
02 / Current project

DEFRAG

Archive of Synthetic Dreams

NOVEMBER 19, 2026
THE PERMANENT / VANCOUVER

An exhibition and public program exploring AI, archives and digital culture through moving images, installations, performance and conversation.

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03 / Selected project

AI Sticker Lab

Live It / for Arc’teryx

JULY 24, 2026
CYPRESS MOUNTAIN

A guided AI sticker booth for Arc’teryx’s internal summer event. Participants combined their portrait with activity-specific outdoor imagery through a live AI-assisted process — 300+ stickers printed on site.

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04 / Commissions & collaborations

Images &
experimental systems

Generative imagery, moving image and artist-built tools. Exploring machine vision, synthetic bodies and the unstable life of digital images.

Exhibitions &
public encounters

Curatorial projects, installations, performances and conversations that bring artistic research into shared space.

Creative direction &
commissions

Visual development and experimental experiences for cultural organizations and brands, from an initial concept through production.

05 / Contact

Commission a project.
Start a conversation.

For creative direction, generative imagery, installations and interactive event experiences:

studio@theministryofnext.com ↗
MINISTRY OF NEXT / VANCOUVERFOUNDED BY ERICA LAPADAT-JANZEN