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Looking Back at MUTEK 2026: Seven Digital Installations Questioning Our Technological World

In Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles, where a futuristic urban landscape seems almost naturally designed to accommodate digital art, MUTEK takes over public squares, hidden corners, buildings and façades to showcase a wide range of creative approaches: art-science experiments, interactive sculptures, data-driven works, but also projects addressing the preservation of Indigenous cultures and socially engaged experiences rooted in local communities. Together, they offer a playful yet thoughtful reflection on the relentless pace of a technological and media-driven society—one that surrounds us and increasingly feeds us immersive representations of the world, without…