MUTEK_IMG

The 4th edition of MUTEK_IMG, a forum on current practices in digital creation, will be held from April 11 to 13 at Centre Phi as part of the official Printemps numérique program and in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

Showcasing local talent and international creators, the event is intended for industry stakeholders who want to learn about their peers’ practices, expand their professional network, and experience the most innovative and inspiring technological tools and artistic practices. The event aims to strengthen Montréal’s leadership in the strategic digital creativity sector by contributing to its development and visibility, promoting its culture and creators, and activating local and international collaborations.

MUTEK_IMG offers a series of conferences, networking activities and workshops around the following themes:

• Innovative immersive experiences: performance audiovisual, scenography, installation interactive, screening architectural, virtual reality and augmented
• Issues society digital: artifhereal intelligence, big data, web hidden, surveillance and life privacy, porosity of the world real and virtual, age post-truth
• Visions of the future : prototype tomorrow with the art and the design, of the choreographies human-machine, tools of creation automated and of the new aesthetics digital

The programming daytime is free and is intended to the artists and professionals digital as well qu’to the curious. It is necessary of register to the activities in ensure of have a spot: registration in online.

Among the activities:

• A day dedicated to the digital art in the space urbain and the screening architectural with intervenants international such as Martin Posta — Signal Festival (CZ), Max Nova — Dawn of Man (US) and Tanya Toft Ag — Urban Media Art Academy (DK); the presentation of the 6 finalistes of the concours of mapping of the Partenariat of the Quartier des spectacles, MUTEK and MAPP_MTL and the screening of their work to the metro Saint-Laurent in the evening.
  • A series of panels on the spot of the artist and the creation to the sein society digital will be presented in collaboration with the team behind the magazine digital art HOLO:
  • Inventer the future
  • Aesthetics digital: to the search of inconnues
  • Body in mouvement
  • The reign of the automatisation
  • the digital art to the age post-truth

Among the intervenants: Liam Young — Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today (UK), Madeline Gannon — ATONATON (US), Régine Debatty — We Make Money Not Art (BE), and Tega Brain — Dark Matter Manufacturing (US). More of infos here.

• Two panels faisant suite to the workshop VR:RV that will be tenu in start of seMayne, the first phase of an project of exchange germano-canadien of the Goethe-Institut bringing together of the penseurs, journalists, producteurs and creators in discuter and design of the works around of the future of internet, of the web hidden, of the artifhereal intelligence, of the big data, of the interfaces cerveau-ordinateur. They traiteront also the presentation of faits real and contenus journalistiques in virtual reality.
VR:RV is a project of the Goethe-Institut produced with the support of the Ministry federal of the Business foreign of Germany and developed in close collaboration with MUTEK (Montréal) and re:publica (Berlin).
• The 4th edition of the VR Salon, a series of conferences and of activities of networking on the creation in virtual reality whose:
• the (Anti) Manifests VR – edition 2 presented in collaboration with Doc Circuit Montréal (market professional of the RIDM) rassemblant of the concepteurs, creators and theorists to Montréal in remettre in question the practical current and inspirer of new ways of penser the medium.
• Two panels: the a on the codes narratifs and the way whose they peuvent be broken open in virtual reality; the autre on the trends of the industry – creation of content, development technologique, financement and cast – in Canada, in Europe and to the United States, presented by the Fonds of the media of the Canada.
• a series of studies of case of productions immersive and experiential, presented by Xn Québec – the Association of the producteurs of experiences digital.
• A conference presented by the Commission digital of Culture Montréal informera on the avancement of the work of the commission and workshop visera to reflect together to the optimisation of the synergie of the environment.
• The 14th edition of Composite that donne the speaking to 7 artists and/or entrepreneurs digital in present their project will be held during the closing cocktail the Friday. This initiative of the Conseil of the arts of Montréal cherche to catalyser projects art / industry of the sector digital.
• The latest creation ‘discrete figures’ developed by Rhizomatiks Research, collectif of artists and of engineers japonais founded by Daito Manabe, and performed by the troupe of ELEVENPLAY showcasing the technologies of pointe to the service of the art in a chorégraphie breathtaking. The performance combines the mouvement of cinq danseuses to a technology of machine learning to the sein of an scenography where drones, body virtuels and others connected objects interagissent.

Presented as the event’s closing performance on April 13 at the Monument-National in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles thanks to the support of Japan Foundation, this show pluridisciplinaire audacieux is unique in its genre and is intended to all public! Biographie full of discrete figures.

The creator of renowned international, Daito Manabe donnera presentation on the performances artistic interdisciplinaires of Rhizomatiks Research and ELEVENPLAY the 11 April to the Centre Phi. It is fortement recommended of register to the avance in this activity.

You pouvez consult the grille and the description full of the activities mentioned ci-dessus here.

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Programming in online detailed

Event Facebook MUTEK_IMG

Event Facebook Rhizomatiks Research + ELEVENPLAY

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