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DB: Village Num\u00e9rique was launched in 2024 to celebrate MUTEK\u2019s 25th anniversary. What was the original inspiration behind creating a standalone digital art circuit within the festival, and how has that vision evolved for this second edition?<\/p>\n
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Mika\u00ebl Frascadore (MF): MUTEK has always been at the forefront of digital art dissemination, with special installation projects having been presented in the past. However, we felt that there was a real enthusiasm, but also an opportunity to showcase the enormous talent of local creators in a more formal context. Quebec is the birthplace of many highly innovative projects, artists, and studios. For this second edition, we have expanded our offering with a greater diversity of media, more in-depth content, and more ways for the public to discover digital arts. We want to develop audiences and contribute to the success of the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n NEST: Colony by Iregular<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n DB: This year\u2019s Village Num\u00e9rique features over twenty digital installations across Quartier des Spectacles. Can you walk us through how these works are presented? What kinds of tools, platforms, or experimental tech are being used by artists in this year\u2019s program, if you can name a few, and how do they encourage interaction with the viewers, including those unfamiliar with digital art?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n MF: There are indeed 28 installations spread across 23 venues. This year, several projects have been made possible thanks to university research projects. For instance, AI agents are used to generate content, analyze gestures, and translate them into actions. Audiovisual, networking, and computer integration are now at the heart of the means by which artists express themselves. The projects offer more targeted experiences, where people can interact directly with the content. Even when the works have multiple layers of complexity, newcomers can still find something to enjoy because the means of interaction remain intuitive. Users who want to go deeper can also do so. <\/span><\/p>\n For You I Will Be An Island by Chun Hua Catherine Dong<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n MF (continues): The artists have taken care to make their installations accessible in a variety of ways, despite the denser content or messages. For example, artist Matthew Biederman presents a project that repurposes the game \u2018Simon Says\u2019 to explore, with humor and insight, the mechanisms of public surveillance. Using AI and computer vision, the work stages a system that observes, interprets, and directs the actions of the audience, making visible the power dynamics at work in our digital environments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Participants are invited to follow simple instructions. Each posture performed becomes both an act of individuality and a negation of identity in a digitally mediated environment. The device places the body at the center of a game of control, between autonomy and algorithmic injunction.<\/span><\/p>\n view of a light-driven installation in the public space<\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n Labyrinthe by students from UQAM\u2019s School of Visual and Media Arts<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n project info:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n name: MUTEK<\/span><\/a> | <\/span>@mutekmontreal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n founder and general director: Alain Mongeau<\/span><\/p>\n location: Quartier des Spectacles in Montreal, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n dates: August 19th and 24th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n circuit: Village Num\u00e9rique<\/span><\/a> | <\/span>@village.numerique<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n executive producer: Mika\u00ebl Frascadore<\/span><\/p>\n dates: August 14th to 28th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n photography: Tannaz Shirazi | <\/span>@natourstudio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The post walk around mutek festival\u2019s village num\u00e9rique, a circuit of digital art installations in montreal<\/a> appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Montreal festival takes place across Quartier des Spectacles \u00a0 Village Num\u00e9rique forms part of MUTEK, a festival that focuses on electronic music and digital arts with performances across Montreal\u2019s Quartier des Spectacles. Running between August … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n