Sarah Mackenzie
Director, Producer, Strategist



MUTEK Forum: Utopia or Oblivion
role ︎ director, head of programming

How do we remain human in our hyperconnected world, and how can we create and use technology in an ecological, decolonial, and inclusive fashion?



The 10th edition of MUTEK Forum – MUTEK’s annual assembly and showcase of the future of digital creativity – takes place from August 20 to 23, 2024, in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, Canada at Monument-National, the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), and Vino Disco.

45 activities (talks, performances, labs, workshops, masterclasses, film screenings, demos, and meetups) hosted by 135 experts (musicians, filmmakers, technologists, researchers, gaming designers, and digital artists) working across technology and innovation (XR, gaming, music, AI, ecology, architecture, and urban design).


This year’s forum is titled Utopia or Oblivion, and it draws inspiration from the book Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity by the prolific architect, designer, and philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller, and his futuristic ideas for how technology and ecology can work together. 

Highlights: sonifying climate data with Portrait XO, TouchDesigner meet-up, GenAI film screenings, exploring Indigenous immersive futures with Skawennati, Loretta Todd, Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Kayla Briët, immersive keynote in the Satosphère with Spherical’s David McConville and Dawn Danby, investigating learnings in accessibility from gaming, and an exclusive demo of new hybrid performance technologies developed between Moment Factory and the Society for Arts and Technology.


MUTEK Forum in CLOT Magazine
MUTEK Forum in The Gazette
MUTEK Forum in The Quietus

Photos by Maryse Boyse, Tannaz Shizari, Viviene Gaumand