Mutek Montreal 2026 – Paul Vivien: The Harmony of Absence and … Low-Tech Simplicity

With his live AV performance L’HARMONIE DE NOTRE ABSENCE, presented at the latest edition of Montreal’s MUTEK festival, French digital artist Paul Vivien uses a live cinema setup to envision a dystopian world in which efforts toward technological and digital sobriety have proved insufficient to preserve humanity, leaving behind only the remnants of a vanished civilisation. Observed from nature’s point of view, this broader portrayal of a programmed disappearance also reflects the artist’s increasingly assertive shift toward low-tech practices, after years in which innovation and technology had been central to…