TechLab is a dedicated space for digital art at the Surrey Art Gallery in British Columbia. It was launched in 1999 as a way for the contemporary gallery to build an audience and platform for new media art by gathering the tools and expertise necessary to produce it. They held a series of exhibitions and built a prototype lab in the main exhibition hall. In 2002, the TechLab was redesigned as a permanent space.
TechLab’s artist-in-residence program is designed to give artists the time, space and technology they need to realise their digital art projects. It is also intended to be a space of interaction, a place where the public is able to witness the process of creating computer-based art. It is also designed as an engine for innovation with artists being asked to advise on future exhibitions and programs.