MUTEK Forum, a platform and gathering for bold ideas in digital creation, is back from August 20-22, 2025, with a three-day programme to showcase and critically explore creative practices for artistic research, creation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

McKenzie Wark

Theorist and rave chronicler Wark offers radical insights on nightlife, identity, and queer collectivism.
→ Raving and rewriting realities

Cristóbal Tapia de Veer

Known for scoring “The White Lotus,” the composer shares his approach to cinematic and unsettling sound design.
→ Interview on The Cut

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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

A trailblazer in interactive storytelling, Brathwaite-Shirley builds alternate digital worlds rooted in trans experience and archival resistance.
→ Rebirthing Room at Studio Voltaire
→ Games as archives

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Alice Bucknell

Bucknell reimagines architectural space through speculative fiction, often referencing collaborators like Brathwaite-Shirley and McKenzie Wark.
→ Unreal Architectures

Madame Gandhi

Musician and activist Gandhi connects music, feminism, and climate justice into a sonic manifesto for change.
→ On seizing the moment
→ Sampling climate action

Sasha Stiles

Poet and AI researcher Sasha Stiles explores human-machine collaboration through verse and voice.
→ Speaking a more-than-human tongue
→ How technology renews storytelling

Suzanne Kite

Kite’s work investigates Indigenous epistemologies and performance with generative AI and real-time media.
→ Generative AI as performance
→ The cost of AI in music

Liz Pelly

Pelly critiques the hidden infrastructures behind streaming platforms, calling for new economic models for music.
→ The Ghosts in the Machine

Libby Heaney

One of the few artists working directly with quantum computing, Heaney expands artistic practice through quantum entanglement.
→ The interview – Libby Heaney
→ Quantum magic