Welcome to MUTEK Forum
A platform and gathering for bold ideas in digital creation
MUTEK Forum is MUTEK’s professional platform dedicated to digital creation, artistic research, and creative technologies.
Each summer in Montréal, the Forum brings together artists, researchers, institutions, and professionals around critical and experimental practices at the intersection of digital arts, electronic music, and emerging technologies.
The Forum prioritizes an “artist-centered” approach:
- tools shaped by creative practice;
- concrete exchanges across disciplines;
- ongoing attention to the ethical, ecological, and social implications of technology.
Talks, labs, residencies, a professional market, and international missions form a coherent whole—designed to support artists’ development and foster lasting collaborations.
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MUTEK Forum 2026
The 27th edition marks a turning point for the MUTEK Forum, the festival’s platform for connection and discussion
This year, for the first time, the Forum expands across two of Montreal’s key performing arts institutions — the Atrium and Studio-Théâtre of Les Grands Ballets and Agora de la Danse
The programme will include talks, project presentations, performance lectures and workshops, positioning the festival week as a major international hub for professionals exploring the changing nature of creativity in a digital age. A range of networking activities will also take place throughout the week, creating opportunities for the local sector while serving as an international platform for Québec’s creative ecosystem.
The MUTEK Market, dedicated to fostering opportunities and connections for Canadian artists and creatives, returns for its most ambitious edition yet, welcoming dozens of curators and decision-makers from around the world.
Full Forum programming will be announced in April.
Box Office
The Festival + Forum Passport, which provides access to the festival's regular paid programs and all Forum activities, is now on sale at an introductory price of $420. The Forum Passport will go on sale in the coming weeks.
Partners
MUTEK would like to thank its partners, who play a key role in the maintenance and development of its activities and have provided particular support towards the production of the Forum.
The Government of Québec, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the ministère du Tourisme du Québec, the Secrétariat à la région métropolitaine du gouvernement du Québec, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, FACTOR and Canada's private radio broadcasters, the Department of Canadian Heritage, Musicaction, the City of Montréal, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, Goethe-Institut, Tourisme Montréal, Hôtel Monville, Society for Arts and Technology, Canada Media Fund (CMF), Institut en sciences et génie quantique de l’ÉTS, LCI Éducation, Ableton, Applied AI Institute, Milieux Institute, Silent Partners Studio, OASIS Immersion, Xn Québec, Abundant Intelligences, FEMINAE NOX, Caisse de la Culture Desjardins, CJE, Station Clip, Ubisoft, MOTH, DASA, La Piscine, Encode Canada, Club Sexu, Revital Software, ArtiA, Sporobole, Botto.
