To mark its 25th anniversary, MUTEK is deploying digital art in the public space, offering a unique and sensory experience through a journey of some twenty original installations.
From August 15 to 29, 2024, the Village Numérique will be deployed free of charge between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. in the Quartier des spectacles, allowing everyone to discover this innovative and immersive art.
Here are the five works presented at Place des Arts:
Vessels is a robotic installation by Sofian Audry, Samuel St-Aubin and Stephen Kelly, consisting of large groups of autonomous water vehicles. The robotic agents interact with each other and their environment to form a simple ecosystem. Their collective, emergent comportment resembles the social interactions in a community of living creatures.
LOCATION: Esplanade basins
REDSHIFT is inspired by the cosmological phenomenon where light from distant objects reddens as they move away. This installation by LP Rondeau materializes the passage of time through constantly mutating waves.
LOCATION: Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme
FORMATIONS is an innovative immersive experience - by Ristband & Venice Bleach (Roman Rappak) - that merges live electronic music with cutting-edge technology. This interactive installation employs artificial intelligence, game engines, and virtual reality to create a new form of collective human experience. Participants, equipped with VR headsets, are immersed in a dynamic virtual environment that reacts in real-time to the live musical performance.
LOCATION: Salle Claude-Léveillée
Constellation is a workpiece of five digital artworks on the theme of constellations, presented on Place des Arts’ screen mosaic - a unique installation composed of 35 digital screens and light tubes. This collective exhibition, created by UQAM students, showcases the creativity and innovation of emerging artists in the field of digital arts.
LOCATION: screen mosaic, in the Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme
Digi-Deuil Distribution (DDD) is an interactive installation exploring the concept of digital death. Participants are invited to purchase (1$) a small piece of virtual space in the digital graveyard at digideuil.net through a custom vending machine offering acrylic tombstones.
LOCATION: Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme
