MUTEK Forum: Does an AI God Have an Ass?

From August 26 to 28, 2026, MUTEK Forum returns to Montréal for three days of talks, performances, workshops, screenings, masterclasses, and professional gatherings dedicated to the future of digital creation. Bringing together over 100 artists, researchers, technologists, curators, studios, and cultural practitioners, the Forum explores the evolving landscape of electronic music, digital art, and emerging technologies through an interdisciplinary programme grounded in research, experimentation, and collaboration.

Presented by the Canada Media Fund (CMF), the first day of the Forum, Storytelling: Expanded Realities, turns storytelling inside out, asking what narrative becomes when it is felt, inhabited, and collectively lived. The day explores how stories emerge from the entangled relationships between bodies, technologies, communities, and imaginaries, opening an invitation to the frontiers of immersive and screen-based storytelling and centering embodiment, accessibility, and distribution as creative imperatives.