The MUTEK Forum welcomes more than a hundred speakers through panels, presentations, case studies, workshops and networking opportunities. Hexagram is featured within the programming axis titled “New frontiers of digital and audiovisual creation” along with those who contribute to develop, diversify and interconnect local and international creators and professionals. The first elements of the professional activities program have been unveiled and the MUTEK Forum Passports can now be purchased at preferential rates.

Via the online platform of the Forum, Hexagram presents 13 short video capsules featuring selected members’ research-creation projects. Jean Dubois, Hexagram co-investigator member (and co-director 2018-2021) curated 26 projects that offer a preview of experimental, practice-based research and creation work at the intersections of artistic and scientific disciplines. This initiative takes place in the framework of Hexagram’s 20th anniversary.

The collection of short video capsules introduces MUTEK Forum attendees to an array of research-creation approaches that stem from academic research but circulate in the artistic as well as the cultural milieux.

The videos are grouped into two categories:

1. RESEARCH-CREATION CROSSOVERS (9 CAPSULES)
• Canada MÉDIANE research chair (2021): An overview in images of the themes and work of the MÉDIANE Research Chair by Ælab with Gisèle Trudel [co-investigator member, UQAM] & Stéphane Claude [collaborator member, Oboro].
• Fossilation (2021), a bioplastic membrane, apparatus capturing the residual energy of the building as it interacts with light. A co-created artwork by Brice Ammar-Khodja [student member, Concordia University], Alexandra Bachmayer [student member, Concordia University], Samuel Bianchini [collatorator member, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts décoratifs], Marie-Pier Boucher [collaborator member, Toronto University], Didier Bouchon, Maria Chekhanovich [student member, Concordia University], Matthew Halpenny [student member, Université de Montréal], Alice Jarry [co-investigator member, Concordia University], Raphaëlle Kerbrat, Annie Leuridan, Vanessa Mardirossian [student member, Concordia University], Asa Perlman, Philippe Vandal [student member, Concordia University], & Lucile Vareilles.
• Kalos eîdos skopeîn (2019), a transpersonal experience examined in the poetic traversal of an immersive and danced work, directed by Andrée Martin [co-investigator member, UQAM];
• Le Circuit de Bachelard (2014), a Lumino kinetic installation situated at École de technologie supérieure, in Montréal, co-created by Jean Dubois [co-investigator member, UQAM] & Ghyslain Gagnon [co-investigator member, ÉTS].
• Ensemble d’oscillateurs (2016), musical frictions and sine wave: a group exploration of the musicalizationof an elementary sound, by Nicolas Bernier [co-investigator member, Université de Montréal].
• Point d’origine (2019), an installation transposing monumental architecture into acoustic and musicalsequences, co-created by Nicolas Reeves [co-investigator member, UQAM] & David St-Onge [co-investigator member, ÉTS].
• SENSEFACTORY (2019), a large-scale multi-sensory immersive experience between humans and artificialintelligence : a collaborative artwork by Dietmar Lupfer, Chris Salter [co-investigator member and co-director, Concordia University], Erik Adigard, Sofian Audry [co-investigator member and co-director, UQAM], FM Einheit, Alexandre Saunier [student member, Concordia University], Alex Schweder & Sissel Tolaas.
• Xenolalia (2021), a generative installation, between bio-art and artificial intelligence, co-created by Sofian Audry [co-investigator member and co-director, UQAM] & Tez.
• Laboratoire Mimesis de l’École NAD – UQAC: An overview of the recent works of the lab members Ké Medley [student member], Louis-Philippe Rondeau [co-investigator member] and Yan Breuleux [co-investigator member].
2. OVERVIEW OF EMERGING TALENTS (4 CAPSULES)
• Project Compilation #1 by student members Estelle Schorp [Université de Montréal], Marc André Cossette [Concordia University] & Sandra Volny [UQAM].
• Project Compilation #2 by student members Ahreum Lee [Concordia University], Emilie Morin [Concordia University] & Erin Gee [Université de Montréal].
• Project Compilation #3 by student members Guillaume Pascale [UQAM], Juliette Lusven [UQAM], Max Boutin [UQAM] & Olivia Mc Gilchrist [Concordia University].
• Project Compilation #4 by members of the TAG center for research-création in technoculture, art and games Enric Granzotto Llagostera [Concordia University], Jess Rowan Marcotte [Concordia University] & Steven Sych [Concordia University]. This artwork selection has been directed by Rilla Khaled [Concordia University, co-investigator member].

Contact : Manuelle Freire, General coordinator Hexagram – coordination.hexagram@gmail.com

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