Digital creativity is transforming the ways we produce and interact. Two researchers from CREAT—Philippe Vaucher, professor in the Unité d’enseignement et de recherche en création et nouveaux médias at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), and Louis-Philippe Rondeau, also a professor at the École des arts numériques de l’animation et du design at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (NAD/UQAC)—shed light on current innovations in this field.
Podcasts and Videos
Balados
CREATivity in Action: Stories of Digital Practices
9 March 2026
“L’écho des Plantes” : An Ecological and Poetic Opera
2 March 2026
Is it possible to create an opera with plants?
This episode takes you inside a groundbreaking artistic initiative.
Imagined in collaboration with teenagers, L’Écho des Plantss is a transdisciplinary opera that brings together living systems, the arts, and science in a dynamic dialogue.
Charlotte Gagnon (Manager of Social Action and Education at Opéra de Montréal / Co-founder and Co-Artistic & Executive Director of Productions Rigoletta) and Antoine Bellemare (multidisciplinary artist and postdoctoral researcher) take us behind the scenes of this collective creation, where emotions, plant signals, and words intertwine to shape a new way of listening to the world.
Vidéos
Music & Immigration project
7 January 2026
The Discoverability Axis supported the production of an outreach video related to the project Music & Immigration, an online cultural mapping initiative highlighting the musical practices of professional immigrant artists in Quebec.
The project is led by two CREAT members: Caroline Marcoux Gendron (UQAM), collaborator of the Discoverability Axis, and Guillaume Blum (ÉTS), Head of the Axis. It is part of ongoing research on the visibility and accessibility of cultural content.
What Is Creative Economy?
30 October 2025
Short videos in which the Arts and Health Axis team asked members of the public, on the spot, to share their definition of the creative economy. Take a listen—we captured sparks of imagination that reveal the richness and diversity of this concept!