Spectacle vivant, scènes numériques (SVSN) – Quebec delegation 2025
SVSN 2025
July 7-8, 2025
Avignon (FRANCE).
L’Effet Québec – Export expertise cluster, in collaboration with the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), is putting together a Quebec delegation of producers, presenters and venues of digital experiences in the performing arts to take part in the 5th edition of SVSN.
In addition to the scheduled business meetings, pitch sessions, workshops and artistic showcases will round off the two-day event, which brings together top players from both sectors.
About SVSN 2025
At the initiative of a group of players from the South of France (Dark Euphoria, Le Grenier à Sel, la Villa Créative, Avignon Université) and in partnership with the prestigious Avignon Festival, the Spectacle Vivant, Scènes Numériques (SVSN) meetings invite professionals in the performing arts to consider issues of digital transition and innovation (augmented and virtual stages, immersive theater, hybrid forms, interactive devices, participatory performances, etc.).
Bringing together over 900 participants in the last four years, SVSN has become a key forum for exchange and networking, and a real source of inspiration and understanding of the creative possibilities offered by immersive and interactive devices.
Program
Discover the full SVSN program as part of the Avignon Festival on July 7 and 8.
OFF-SVSN presentation
Les lieux des possibles : téléprésence et fabrique scénique à distance
July 9, 10 to 11 a.m. | Gallery 4, Villa Créative
Plunge into the heart of theatrical creation in the age of telepresence!
This presentation explores the possibilities offered by connected spaces for the contemporary stage, thanks to Scenic, an immersive device developed by the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) in Montreal. Designed to foster remote co-creation in real time, this technology opens up new avenues for artistic collaboration.
The project presented, winner of the Villa Créative – D4 Avocats Associés prize, will come to life this October between Avignon and Quebec, during the Fête de la science.
With Julien Blais, artist-researcher at Université de Laval, Claire Paillon, Strategic Development Advisor at SAT and Cyrielle Garson, Lecturer in Theatre and English Studies and Director of the Master of Theatre (alternance) at Avignon Université.
Selection of Quebec studios and cultural venues
Les Zybrides / Petit Théâtre du Vieux Noranda
Rosalie Chartier-Lacombe – General Director Petit Théâtre du Vieux Noranda
Les Zybrides is a multidisciplinary creative company specializing in performing arts and technology located in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. We own the Petit Théâtre du Vieux Noranda, a space for creation, dissemination, and knowledge transfer. Specializing in the integration of technology into the performing arts, we explore new forms of writing and performance, and we aim to be a point of convergence between digital tools and the performing arts. Since 2016, we have been supporting and developing the Hub Avantage numérique, which is virtual, physical, and mobile, and aims to develop the creative and technological ecosystem of the Crescent Boréal (Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Northern Quebec, and French-speaking Ontario).
Featured projects:
Le Hub Avantage numérique
Avantage numérique is a virtual, physical, and mobile hub serving the cultural, business, and knowledge sectors. It aims to develop the creative, entrepreneurial, and technological ecosystem of the Boreal Crescent.
Laboratoire d’interactivité dans les arts vivants
Since 2018, the Interactivity in the Performing Arts Lab has brought together performing artists and technocreatives for a week of co-creation and technological exploration. Each lab is preceded by four preparatory meetings. At the end of the lab, there is a public presentation that allows for user surveys. A summary video of the week and photos are provided to participants so they can include them in their portfolios. All projects can also be found on avnu.ca.
PHI
Myriam Achard – Chief New Media Partnerships and PR
Founded and directed by Phoebe Greenberg in Montreal, PHI is a multidisciplinary cultural hub at the intersection of art, technology, and music. Focused on the future of art and its audiences, PHI champions radical ideas through collective experiences, social engagement, and audience interactivity. PHI offers a dynamic and diverse program that includes exhibitions, performances, installations, immersive experiences and artist-in-residence programs, fostering unexpected encounters between artists and audiences. Committed to creation, dissemination, and support for contemporary artistic practices, PHI stands as a leading cultural destination in the heart of Old Montreal.
Featured project:
BLUR
Blur announces a new myth for the modern age, where science has changed how we think about life and death. With the advent of cloning and advancements in resurrection biology, we’re dissolving the boundaries separating the living from the dead—the natural from the artificial. This extended reality theatrical production unfolds as a dreamscape, shifting subtly between the real and the virtual world as participants are taken on a journey of reflection on grief and eternality.
Société des arts technologiques
Claire Paillon – Strategic development advisor
Founded in 1996, the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and support of digital culture. The SAT is internationally recognized for its pioneering role in the development of technologies for immersive creation, telepresence and mixed reality. Its transdisciplinarity and hybrid mission make it a unique organization of its kind in the world. A space for experimentation and collective learning, the SAT supports the emergence of new forms of creativity and encourages transdisciplinarity, the sharing of knowledge and the dissemination of digital culture in all its forms.
Featured project:
Scenic telepresence
Scenic is a remote co-creation tool that promotes the emergence of new artistic practices in telepresence and facilitates cultural exchanges. Our vision is a network of connected cultural spaces that invites creators to reinvent the performing arts, by promoting local cultures and minimizing travel. For the public, it allows local access to avant-garde interactive creations.
Couleur.tv
Francis Gélinas – Producer, Director
Since its founding in 2006, the projects haven’t stopped coming: artist videos, video game promotions, music performances, multi-projector immersive documentaries, hybrid web series, animated TV shows, museum installations, and personal films — to name just a few. Many of these projects have been recognized in competitions and by industry peers. At Couleur.tv, reinventing ourselves with every new project is a point of pride — it’s our guiding principle. For over 18 years, Couleur.tv has been turning madness into pixels.
Featured project:
Réalités parallèles XR, volet théâtre augmenté
Réalités parallèles XR is a technological extension of the theatrical production Réalités parallèles by Théâtre de la Pire Espèce. This mixed reality companion experience, designed for the Meta Quest 3 headset, will tour alongside the show in 2026–2027, allowing audiences to immerse themselves in the world of the play from the inside.
CoLAB studios
Isabelle Brodeur – Producer
Nadine Marchand – Strategist, development and project management / marketing and communications
CoLAB Studios develops and produces works that combine the digital arts.
Featured project:
EPICENTER
EPICENTER is a multi-user augmented reality experience distinguished by its interactive and narrative approach, drawing on the evocative power of the theatrical univers of writer and director Olivier Choinière.
In this experience, visitors take on the role of consumers in the supermarket of their dreams. The products come to life, revealing their secrets, while the thoughts of employees and other consumers are heard. This narrative device invites the audience to explore contemporary consumption dynamics in a playful and critical way, while blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
Transistor Média
Julien Morissette – Artistic Director
Founded in 2017, Transistor Media creates and distributes audio art, particularly podcasting, but also audio installations. Now one of the most senior podcasting studios in Quebec, we are proudly based in Gatineau, a stone’s throw away from Ottawa, where we work with artists and organizations from across Canada.
Featured project:
La disparition de Coyote Comeau
The Disappearance of Coyote Comeau is a theatrical and sonic journey through the tumultuous life of Coyote Comeau. An outstanding wrestler from Maniwaki in the 1950s, he made Quebec history with his flamboyant victories and mysterious disappearance.
Almost seventy years later, host Julien Morissette sets out on the trail of this famous brawler with the help of historian Laurent Turcot, the duo behind the investigative podcast Captives (Annie Laurin and Michèle Ouellette) and actors Marc Beaupré, Sophie Cadieux, Émilie Bibeau and Samian.
Hantées : le poltergeist de la ferme Dagg
The Outaouais region abounds in haunted houses and inexplicable paranormal phenomena. In the podcast Hantées, host Julien Morissette sheds light on reports of mysterious events through archives and testimonials from local citizens.
In this story, brought to life on stage with immersive sound accompaniment, University of Ottawa journalism student Flavie Demers-Côté puts the Haunted team on the trail of Percy F. Woodcock and the region’s most famous paranormal story: the Dagg Farm poltergeist. Who are the people who live on this haunted site? The host hopes to untangle the tangles between the dark stories of today and those of the last century.