Mutek Forum - Future Interfaces: Technology

Events Calendar - August 21, 2025

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MUTEK FORUM - FUTURE INTERFACES: TECHNOLOGY [ Static Link : iCal ]

City:

Canada, Quebec, Montreal

Time:

Thu Aug 21, 2025 @ 9:00am till Thu Aug 21, 2025 @ 6:00pm

Location:

Quartier Des Spectacles

Description:

Day 2 of MUTEK Forum 2025 explores Future Interfaces, focusing on how transformative technologies are reshaping creative expression across disciplines. From quantum computing to machine learning, gaming to open-source technology, this day invites bold, interdisciplinary visions of resilience, reciprocity, and radical possibility.

British synth innovator James Holden introduces Benny, a new live-focused open-source music software. Meanwhile, Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist Suzanne Kite presents work from the Wíhanble S’a Pod as part of the Abundant Intelligences program, sharing projects that translate Lakȟóta epistemologies into responsive artworks. She will also perform an excerpt from Wičhíŋčala Sákowin, a cosmological soundwork rooted in Indigenous story, stars, and ceremony.

In partnership with the Machine Agencies Research Group, Machinic Encounters—an exhibition presented by Milieux, Applied AI, and the Hexagram Network—spotlights student-led projects that challenge utilitarian views of AI. These works instead embrace glitch, care, play, and the poetic potential of human-machine collaboration.

Celebrating the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, a special series of distinct talks presented by Institut en sciences et génie quantique de l’ÉTS explores how quantum principles can be translated into thought-provoking artistic expressions. Encounter a keynote on non-binary futurisms by quantum art pioneer Libby Heaney, a roundtable on emerging quantum musical aesthetics, and a live performance-talk on Quantum Music by MOTH and ILĀ (co-founder of Trans Voices), exploring how quantum machine learning can be used in musical composition.

Gaming and play take center stage as technologies of worldbuilding, accessibility, and creative methodology. Highlights include a lecture-performance by Alice Bucknell on ecological simulation in gaming, project presentations by students from Collège LaSalle (LCI Education) and a spotlight on Game Changer, a new study by Club Sexu examining how gender and intimacy are represented—and contested—in Montréal’s gaming industry.

Two Indigenous-led games, Katsi’noniowá:nen – The Flying Head by Kahentawaks Tiewshaw and Orange Pekoe by Vanessa Racine, offer alternate modes of storytelling, resistance, and language revitalization through interactive media. A case study on in-game photography will be presented by Ubisoft’s Jean Guesdon, Director of Strategic Visualization.

Day 2 also brings music into focus with a masterclass by Lexis (Music Is My Sanctuary/Cult Studio) for musicians on aligning creative authenticity with commercial work as an artist, and a collaborative workshop with Machìna and Nicola Cruz at DASA, revealing creative methodologies at the intersection of sound and production.

Finally, Computational Witchcraft Sleepover, presented by Abundant Intelligences, conjures queer-feminist ritual through a playful workshop blending games, digital altars, data magic, and collective storytelling. Participants explore alternative forms of machinic intimacy and connection—between humans, algorithms, and the unseen.

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