MUTEK MX – Québec Professional Delegation 2024
MUTEK MEXICO 2024
October 14-18, 2024,
Mexico City (Mexico).
MUTEK Montréal, in collaboration with l’Effet Québec (an initiative of Xn Québec), the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications, the SODEC, the Délégation générale du Québec à Mexico and Investissement Québec International is setting up a Québec delegation of studio producers, creators, broadcasters, distributors and cultural venues of digital creativity to take part in the 20th anniversary edition of MUTEK MX.
In addition to festival activities, four days of meetings, exchanges, pitches, personalized B2Bs and visits will be held to generate links with the local creative ecosystem as well as with international professionals taking part in the event.
ABOUT MUTEK MX
For 20 years now, MUTEK has been fostering connections between Montréal and Mexico, as well as between Québec, Mexico, and Latin America. The anniversary edition will take place from October 7 to 20, 2024.
Year after year, MUTEK MX has renewed its commitment to developing avant-garde and bold programming, contributing to positioning Mexico City as a platform for exchanging new trends in digital creativity and technology, both locally and internationally. For Québec creators, the event provides a privileged landing point in Latin America while connecting them to global artistic currents.
Selection of studios, producers, broadcasters and cultural venues participating in the mission
4D ART
Michel Lemieux – Co-artistic Director, General Director Strategy (he/him)
Denis Morin – Operations Director (he/him)
Innovative living and digital art company since 1983
According to Albert Einstein, time is the fourth dimension. In this day and age of digital speed, we often only slip to the surface of things. The mission of 4D ART is first to stop a little, to take the time to explore the depths of the human soul.
Founded by Michel Lemieux in Montréal in 1983, the multidisciplinary artistic company 4D ART already has about fifty original productions in its repertoire. First recognized worldwide, Michel Lemieux’s solo shows establish the creative identity of 4D ART.
Since the arrival of Victor Pilon as co-director of the company with Michel Lemieux, their unique work merges theatre, performance, dance, music, cinema, visual arts and digital arts. The tandem has created mesmerizing creations that magnify reality through the virtual, multiplying the performing arts to new media.
Since 2019, the two artistic co-directors have mainly created solo works. Victor Pilon addresses performance, while Michel Lemieux works on digital installations and experiences in virtual and augmented reality.
In a constantly renewed transdisciplinary movement, 4D ART is totally in line with current artistic relevance.
Lemieux and Pilon’s avant-garde creations have been acclaimed around the world for more than 40 years, both nationally and internationally.
Featured projects:
LE MIROIR DES JOURS
Digital theatrical installation
VULNERABLE
Interactive digital installation
Amélie Barrette
Director, Editor
An emerging documentary filmmaker and editor, she is currently developing her first XR project, Projet SimUlator, in collaboration with XR producer Laurence Wells (art et essai).
Featured project:
PROJET SIMULATOR
Projet SimUlator is an hybrid immersive experience merging documentary and virtual reality developed by Amélie Barrette and Laurence Wells (art et essai). This project aims to validate and educate trans and non-trans audiences, offering a reflection on gender and identity through the prism of video games.
In the current sociopolitical climate, this use of a platform as open and inclusive as Projet SimUlator is anything but trivial. Whether we’re talking about the increasingly restrictive laws in the United States or the “Comité des sages” in Québec, the rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ community members are constantly being questioned and governed by external authorities.
Providing a space for such testimonies and telling these stories through queer voices is of utmost importance. Projet SimUlator contributes to the fight against the wave of homophobia and transphobia currently sweeping the world, all with a gentle, eclectic, and original approach.
art et essai
Laurence Wells – Producer
art et essai is a production company based in Montréal that explores the imagination through films, series, and virtual reality, that take both fictional and documentary approaches. Our mission is to tell human stories that step out of the ordinary, and in any and all possible formats.
Featured projects:
BODIES OF WATER
Bodies of Water brings together the worlds of contemporary dance and architectural projections in an innovative and sensory experience at the heart of the urban space. This is a diptych of the VR 360 project Une eau la nuit – Bodies of Water, presented in the official competition at Venice Immersive 2024.
PROJET SIMULATOR
Projet SimUlator is an hybrid immersive experience merging documentary and virtual reality developed by Amélie Barrette and Laurence Wells (art et essai). This project aims to validate and educate trans and non-trans audiences, offering a reflection on gender and identity through the prism of video games.
Atypic Labs
Alfonso Hernández – Founder
Alfonso Hernández, a Mexico-born creative professional based in Montréal, sees tremendous opportunities in bridging Québec and Mexico digital creativity industries. He believes thoughtfully applied technology and play unlock human potential, fostering connection, vulnerability, and creative expression. With this vision, Alfonso founded Atypic Labs, a studio that designs interactive installations and experiential journeys to inspire creativity, reflection, and human connection. From events and museums to augmented public spaces, Atypic Labs uses creativity, technology, and storytelling to craft transformative experiences. Guided by an intentional “emotional signature,” they create deeper connections and maximize the Return on Experience for their clients.
Featured projects:
LIGHT PAINTING
This interactive installation invites participants to play, create, and be fully present as they explore light painting. Using portable lights and wireless controls, they can effortlessly create artistic pieces while experimenting fearlessly—knowing that any creative “mistakes” can be undone without consequence. The process encourages creativity, embodiment, and fun, allowing participants to focus on their expression rather than the technology.
AGORA COWORK
Atypic Labs offers a new approach to post-COVID hybrid work by creating connected virtual coworking spaces that restore the spontaneous interactions typical of in-person settings, such as those at the coffee corner. Through an innovative online platform, users can enjoy a seamless coworking experience, featuring personalized private rooms and opportunities for non-intrusive informal exchanges.
ÇREN
Azad Jamagocyan – Founder, Producer
Azad Jamagocyan is a marketing specialist, entrepreneur, and artist based in Montréal, with extensive experience in managing immersive and interactive projects. A graduate in Commerce with a specialization in Marketing and International Business from Concordia University, Azad founded ÇREN, a digital production studio that designs and delivers XR, AR, VR experiences and 2D/3D content across various industries. His marketing expertise enables him to effectively consult with brands and companies looking to activate impactful client campaigns. In addition to his role as a producer, Azad is also a painter. This artistic background enriches his approach to marketing and gives him a unique perspective when leading the creative direction of innovative projects.
Featured projects:
JANAPAR – PATHS OF RESILIENCE
This unique exhibition showcases the synergy between two diverse artistic disciplines, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in a multi-dimensional world where art transcends conventional boundaries.
HALLOWEEN MONSTER HUNT
I had the opportunity to lead a creative project for Groupe Mach, where we designed and implemented the Halloween Monster Hunt across all their shopping malls in Québec. This activation was an engaging, family-friendly experience where participants were encouraged to catch all the monsters hidden throughout the malls to earn their fair share of candies.
Galella Place & Culture
Stéphanie Galella – Art & Environmental Design Advisor, MASc Environmental Design (Built Heritage)
Galella Place & Culture develops contextualized exhibition projects of art and digital creation with the aims to implement a compelling mode to interpret tangible and intangible heritage significance of built spaces and open-air places. The founder of this young business, Stephanie Galella, promotes and connects local and international creatives with special places of presentation through a tailored private art commission and management approach which involves key-actors from the private sector (Real-Estate, businesses, individuals), the Art World, and Environmental Design professionals.
GSI musique
Renée Villemaire – Director of National and International Business Development
Founded in 1983, GSI Musique has acquired a unique expertise and know-how in the design and production of major event shows and multiplatform projects. The company, which has produced the successes Montréal symphonique, Bébé symphonique and Harmonium symphonique, among others, is known for its bold, innovative and unifying proposals that combine orchestral music, visual arts and technology to provide immersive experiences for audiences of all ages.
Featured project:
BÉBÉ SYMPHONIQUE
The audio album and fulldome immersive film Bébé symphonique draws on the richness and power of orchestral music to create special moments of connection between babies and their parents, while promoting the neurological development of toddlers.
The project is based on seven instrumental pieces composed by Simon Leclerc to comfort and stimulate young children. Bébé symphonique is an original idea of Artistic Director Nicolas Lemieux.
Lucion
Bernard Duguay – President, Creative Director
Lucion is a digital arts studio specializing in immersive public art installations.
Featured projects:
NÖKTURN
NÖKTURN is an immersive, interactive exhibition centered on sustainability. Whether staged outdoors in a city’s natural green space or indoors at a museum, it presents a fictional narrative about a flourishing humanoid community that demonstrates the potential of sustainable living.
moonGARDEN
moonGarden is a public art installation composed of oversized vinyl spheres from 6′ to 30′ in diameter, showcasing shadow theaters and custom-made imagery. Content is often prepared by local residents to reflect their realities, hopes and dreams.
Normal Studio
Valéria Petit – Director of Creative Content
Normal Studio is a multidisciplinary creative studio founded in Montréal in 2009. The studio brings together over 30 creators, producers, and multimedia artists, specializing in transforming imaginative concepts into impactful realities. Normal Studio stands out for its collaborative approach, integrating design, technology, and production to create bold multimedia environments. The studio has completed over 300 projects in the fields of performing arts, entertainment, and public installations, working with partners such as Cirque du Soleil and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.
Featured projects:
TORUK
Normal Studio played a key role in creating set design and projections for TORUK – The First Flight, a collaboration between AVATAR and Cirque du Soleil. Working with multimedia directors Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, we brought Pandora to life, showcasing the Floating Mountains, Omaticaya Hometree, and more through synchronized projections.
A state-of-the-art tracking system added real-time effects, extending projections into the audience for an immersive experience. TORUK blends technology and artistry seamlessly, exemplifying our ability to create immersive theatrical experiences.
SÉRIE BEYOND
The Beyond series aims to transport the viewer to a place beyond the everyday, where the familiar becomes improbable. Transposing the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet on a large scale, these immersive experiences create worlds with new perspectives, allowing viewers to explore these worlds of color and light in a new way.
MUTEK Montréal – International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music
Alain Mongeau – Founder, Artistic direction, General direction
MUTEK Montréal Edition 26: 2025, a New Cycle.
The 25th edition of MUTEK Montréal comes to a close today, marking a quarter-century of inspiration, reflection and creativity. This anniversary symbolises much more than a simple celebration: it’s the opening of a new era. This new era is justified by the profound transformations we have initiated this year. Whether through the increased integration of emerging technologies, the emphasis on inclusivity, or the exploration of new artistic forms. It’s a commitment not just to follow trends, but to anticipate and shape them. True to our innovative spirit, we open ourselves to new paths, inviting you to explore uncharted waters and give free rein to your emotions.
The time has come to embark on the next cycle. The Festival continues to transform itself, building a global ecosystem of artistic ideas and proposals, in which every participant plays a pivotal role. We are called to be part of a pluralistic whole, to imagine futures that open up new opportunities for future generations.
MUTEK – Village numérique
Mikaël Frascadore – Executive Producer
MUTEK is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination and development of digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art.
Featured project:
VILLAGE NUMÉRIQUE
A free circuit through 23 original digital art installations: discover, among other things, virtual reality installations, wall projections, and interactive creations.
PHI
Renelle Desjardins Chiasson – Director of Programming
PHI is a multidisciplinary organization positioned at the intersection of art, film, music, design and technology. Offering a panoramic perspective of radical ideas focused on collective experience, social impact, and audience interactivity, PHI is committed to future generations of art consumption. PHI consists of the PHI Centre, PHI Studio, artist-in-residence programs, and PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Playmind
Emmanuel Sévigny – CEO
Playmind is an award-winning entertainment studio. Our mission is to develop and deploy innovative entertainment experiences.
Featured projects:
PLAYBOX
PLAYBOX is an immersive and interactive ball-toss attraction.
PLAYBOOTH
The PLAYBOOTH is a miniature haunted house attraction that packs hair raising jump scares.
Quartier des spectacles international (QDSi)
Guillaume Aniorté – Executive Director
QDSi produce and rent inspiring art installations that are greatly appreciated everywhere they are presented. Thanks to our extensive experience in the Quartier des Spectacles – the downtown entertainment district in Montréal, Canada – our works spark the imagination and engage the public in unforgettable luminous, auditory and participatory experiences.
Featured project:
ECHOES – A VOICE FROM UNCHARTED WATER
A veritable life-size sculpture of light and sound, Echo offers an unusual encounter with a whale that reacts with the presence of spectators.
Société des arts technologiques (SAT)
Paule Mainville – Production Manager
Pia Balthazar – Directress of arts-sciences development
Founded in 1996, the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] is a non-profit organization dedicated to digital culture. With its triple mission as a center for the arts, training and research, the SAT is a gathering space for diverse talent, curiosity, and knowledge. It is recognized internationally for its active, leading role in developing technologies for immersive creation, mixed realities and telepresence. The Society for Arts and Technology is a place of collective learning that holds the promise of exploring technology to infuse it with more meaning, magic and humanity.
Featured project:
Panorama : I’m Feeling Lucky
An infinitely evolving sonic and visual environment inspired by 19th century panorama painting.
Created by Canadian artists Timothy Thomasson and Tatum Wilson, Panorama: I’m Feeling Lucky is a real-time computer-generated fulldome animation that questions relationships to image, geography, virtual space, historical media technology, and mass data collection systems.
TRANSVERSAL
Hamie Robitaille – Co-Founder, Creative Director
TRANSVERSAL is an immersive and interactive creation studio specializing in connected objects.
Featured projects:
Parallels — Interactive Installation
Parallèles is a light and interactive installation for public space, which invites contemplation, play and reflection.
BEATS 180 — Multimedia
BEATS is a show at the crossroads of contemporary dance, digital arts and design created to question our relationship with work and technology.
Tribu
Amelie Gravel – Director, Business Development
Micah Desforges – Founder, CEO
Tribu creates unifying events that inspire people and position its clients as leaders in their respective industries. The company produces its own major events primarily in Canada, including JACKALOPE FEST, APIK, and BARBEGAZI, which attract tens of thousands of spectators and over 2,000 athletes each year. Tribu stands out with concepts that place both the athlete/participants and the spectator at the heart of the experience. TRIBU also offers content creation and brand experience services to event sponsors and corporate clients.
Featured projects:
Jackalope Fest – Action sports Festival
The ultimate meeting point for adrenaline enthusiasts in Canada and the USA! It’s a gathering of communities that allows for a great time while witnessing international skateboarding and climbing competitions. Also featured are base jump demonstrations, freestyle motocross, and much more. Jackalope is the only event of its kind to operate on both sides of the border and also produces a series of smaller-scale qualification events, Jackalope Block Party.
Urcisse
Quentin Larue – President
Urcisse is a Techno and House music Label and I am a Techno and House producer and event planner.
Featured project:
PURE SINGLE EP
Pure Singe EP is a 2000s progressive house and techno inspired compilation and set that his focused on creating a new world in the club by emphasizing on the dancer experience with strong visuals, staging, ambiant odors with a rainforest like space… The goal of this project his to strike a greater emotion for the club goers than the regular Friday night experience by doing a heavier work on artistic direction. The product itself will be a 8-12 track album and a 3-5 hour DJ set.
Vivid Memory Studios (VMS)
Samuel Vignola – President, Chief Creative Officer
Chad Concepcion – Partner, Chief Art Director
Vivid Memory is a creative studio that transcends music stories through immersive installations, stage design, and most recently immersive music videos. VMS collaborates with artists to create and produce interactive story-driven experiences where music and innovation are at the center stage of all projects.
Featured projects:
EPISTOLARY
Epistolary is an immersive and innovative fusion of music, video, and virtual reality, created in collaboration with Quebecois artist KROY, Vivid Memory Studios, and Archiv VR. This groundbreaking event marks the first Quebecois virtual music video, propelling the music industry into new horizons.
DEEP HERTZ
Deep Hertz is an immersive and interactive work that comes to life at the crossroads of physical structures, projections, lights, and audiovisual elements.
Deep Hertz is an energetic evolution powered by sound that passes through five stages of transformation: birth, learning, growth, maturity, and rebirth. The number ‘5’ symbolizes change and influences the structure of the work.
XYZ Technologies
Jacques Larue – General Manager, Partner
XYZ Technologies specializes in audiovisual and experiential design, offering a full range of technological and artistic solutions. Our integrated service offering leverages leading technological innovations to create truly one-of-a-kind experiences. Since 2004, our teams have had the privilege of collaborating with numerous organizations around the world. Our expertise is embodied by the technology experts and artists who merge their skills to elevate the quality of every project. We are dedicated to creating audiovisual solutions, supplying pro-AV equipment, programming top-tier multimedia solutions and managing the maintenance of our installations.
Featured projects:
Fantöm : La Chasse
Have you always dreamed of being a ghost hunter?
Prepare for a completely new experience, unique in Quebec, with Fantöm: The Hunt.
Equipped with detection binoculars, you will roam the forest in search of lost souls haunting the archaeological site of the Bourg de Pabos. This immersive activity takes the form of a small-group competition with the goal of accumulating more points than your partners.
Each encounter offers fascinating stories and anecdotes, making this ghost hunt a playful way to explore the past and experience Quebec’s history.
URA – La Célébration de l’eau
An odyssey to the sources of life. Ura will immerse you in an adventure where the power of water will take on a new meaning.
In Chandler, on the coast of the Bourg de Pabos, Lamia invites you on the water trail. This mysterious woman will give you the keys to eight stations placed here and there, along your path.
Inside these stations, you will live amazing experiences. Never again, will you see water in the same way…