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Living Digital Archives: Practices, Projects, Infrastructures

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Living Digital Archives: Practices, Projects, Infrastructures

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How do we preserve a digital artwork when the software, formats, and technologies it depends on disappear? Beyond files, what needs to be transmitted for a work to still be understood, studied, or reactivated twenty years from now? For this second gathering with Hexagram, International Digital Arts Alliance (IDAA) will welcome Mourad Bennacer (SAT), continuing the conversation initiated through the Manifesto for a Living Digital Memory, presented at MUTEK Forum 2026. Artists, researchers, collectives, and organizations are invited to submit an artwork, project, archive, or tool that raises a specific challenge around documentation, preservation, or transmission. Selected projects will be presented during the gathering and become starting points for a collective workshop around one question: what needs to be preserved for a digital artwork to remain alive and transmissible? How to participate Submit a short project description (maximum 150 words), accompanied by one image or a link to documentation, and briefly identify what within the project irisks disappearing, becoming inaccessible, or becoming difficult to transmit. Submission deadline: October 22, 2026. Submission Form Selected participants will be invited to give a 5-minute presentation on October 26, followed by discussion and a collective workshop. Date: October 26, 2026 Location: Hexagram, Montréal Participation: Registration required Open to: Artists, researchers, collectives, organizations, and digital arts practitioners. The conversations emerging from the workshop will directly inform the ongoing research and development of smART .

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Montréal has a rich cultural offering, but information is scattered across websites, social networks, noticeboards and posters. Getting an overview can be difficult. Montréal en culture aims to simplify discovery by bringing cultural activities together in all their variety. The project is also inspired, with some nostalgia, by the weekly calendar of the cultural magazine View, which featured a varied offering, from shows to talks and from popular events to more unconventional activities. Adding a map, Montréal en culture invites you to explore that richness across the city. Still a prototype, this independent project aims to become an essential reference for cultural outings in Montréal.

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The directory takes a broad view of culture: artistic creation, presentation, heritage, knowledge sharing, and opportunities for discovery or participation. It covers the Montréal urban agglomeration, including its associated islands. Its scope develops with the sources and activities recorded.

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