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MUTEK Forum 2025: Radical Rituals | August 20–22, 2025
MUTEK Forum returns August 20–22, 2025, with an expanded three-day program of cutting-edge innovation and critical discussions on research, creation, and collaboration.
Explore a dynamic range of talks, performances, exhibitions, workshops, masterclasses, readings, and networking activities that bridge music, AI, XR, media arts, gaming, ecological futures, quantum art, and design.
This year introduces new formats, groundbreaking industry collaborations, and demos from AI Ecologies Lab, MUTEK’s residency program developing sustainable AI tools for the digital arts. The MUTEK Market will also connect emerging Québec and Canadian artists with global presenters, fostering opportunities for business development and international collaboration.
Expand Your Network Through Meaningful Connections
On August 21, MUTEK teams up with OASIS Immersion to launch MUTEK Match, a curated B2B matchmaking initiative designed to spark collaborations between creators, technologists, studios, and cultural institutions. (additional access to be selected when purchasing a passport or a daily pass)
Radical Rituals
This year’s theme, Radical Rituals, invites bold perspectives on navigating rapid technological change and socio-political instability. Rituals become essential tools for resilience and transformation, framing the Forum as a space for care, collaboration, and systemic change.
From collective listening to diverse intelligences—artificial, ecological, ancestral, and embodied—the Forum explores new ways of sensing, understanding, and creating. The Forum will unfold over three acts: Storytelling, Technology, and Practices, offering distinct entry points into the rituals of digital creation and guiding participants through evolving modes of inquiry, expression, and transformation.
Day 1 of MUTEK Forum 2025 explores how technology is reshaping the way we experience narrative. From memory and identity to embodiment and design, this day invites participants to rethink storytelling as an immersive, collaborative, and radical act. Expanding Realities: Immersive Media & Storytelling, presented by the Canada Media Fund (CMF), dives into new narrative forms and methods of worldbuilding across visual, sonic, and technological landscapes.
Day 2 of MUTEK Forum 2025 explores Future Interfaces, focusing on how transformative technologies are reshaping creative expression across disciplines. From quantum computing to machine learning, gaming to open-source technology, this day invites bold, interdisciplinary visions of resilience, reciprocity, and radical possibility.
The final act of MUTEK Forum 2025 focuses on Ethical Futures: Practices, spotlighting sustainable, inclusive, and responsible approaches to artistic and technological innovation. This day examines the values, tools, and frameworks shaping the future of digital creation—from decentralized models and commons-based infrastructures to artist-led futures for ownership. Participants are invited to critically assess dominant systems and explore alternative modes of making, sharing, and collaborating.
Daily networking activities, including meetups and cocktails, will offer Forum participants the chance to connect in dynamic and inspiring settings.
As part of its ongoing evolution, MUTEK Forum is in transition—committed to circular production practices that respect the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This initiative, developed in partnership with Sophilia, reflects the Forum’s dedication to sustainable cultural production across its venues, operations, and collaborations.
Box Office
MUTEK Forum offers several ticketing options, including the Forum Passport and the Festival + Forum Passport, along with two new additions: the Student Forum Passport at a fixed price of $90 (+ service fees and taxes) and an additional networking access: MUTEK Match at $100 (+ service fees and taxes, limited availability).
Day passes are now on sale at 85$/day (+ service fees and taxes), with student day passes at $35/day (+ service fees and taxes).
MUTEK is proud to donate 1% of ticket sales to the EarthPercent project, a charitable organization co-founded by Brian Eno to harness the power of music in the fight against the climate emergency.
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, 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.
