Radio and Digital Technology with Zoé Gagnon-Paquin

The long-foretold death of radio will have to wait. Audio-content production is enjoying new momentum thanks to digital technology. The podcast (balado) marks the rebirth of radio creation. Its many fans are fuelling an artistic flourishing, in Europe and the United States, around this medium. It is therefore all the more surprising to note that Quebec is bucking the trend. For the latest edition of Matinées numériques, Zoé Gagnon-Paquin, co-founder and executive director of Magnéto, will speak to us, live from Aire Commune, about the importance of radio creation for our culture.

Matinées numériques Montréal is a series of monthly morning conversations exploring the intersections between digital technology and society. The talks are free and open to all. Coffee and pastries are provided. ☕🥐 Matinées numériques Montréal is hosted by Élodie Gagnon and organized by Espaces temps.

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About Zoé Gagnon-Paquin

Zoé Gagnon-Paquin is the co-founder and executive director of Magnéto. Ensuring that the message is thoughtful and the listening attentive, and creating experiences that let people step out of their own bubble and into other people’s, is Zoé’s personal mission within Magnéto.

Before devoting herself to Magnéto, she studied philosophy at McGill University and worked as a journalist, desk editor, radio host, organizer and project manager in industrial relations. She has also produced several audio works, including J’habite une ville and Côte des neiges d’hier à aujourd’hui.

As early as 2008, she won the J.H. MacDonald award from Canadian University Press for the best French-language article of the year, and subsequently received several cultural grants, including one from the Cultural Lab of Culture pour tous. She was a 2018 finalist for the Arista award – Young Cultural Entrepreneur, presented by the Conseil des arts de Montréal. She sat on the General Council of the FTQ from 2010 to 2012 and is currently an elected director on the board of Culture Montréal.

About Élodie Gagnon

Élodie Gagnon often speaks into a microphone to introduce new ideas and the people who embody them: emerging culture on Bande à part, the leaders of the new generations on Génératrice (Radio-Canada) and the talent of women creators with the association Femmes du cinéma, de la télévision et des médias numériques (FCTMN) as well as at the NFB. She enjoys helping launch “firsts” such as the cultural makethon Museomix in Quebec museums, the social-innovation platform PISTE for the L’Itinéraire group, or new stages at C2 Montréal (Le Garage, L’Aquarium). She handles chaos, chance and instinct well.