12 February 2026
Digital CreativityLabo Studio is a research-creation space where each project operates as a small independent studio, while its outcomes are pooled to advance research in digital creativity. Its primary objective is to develop a shared portfolio of research-creation projects serving as a tool for archiving, reflection, and dissemination.
An interdisciplinary working group has been established to support this initiative. It brings together the Axis Chair and three co-researchers with complementary expertise:
- Jonathan Lessard — video games, artificial intelligence, and cultural sovereignty
- Yan Breuleux — digital art, archiving of Indigenous artworks, and cultural memory
- Philippe Vaucher — 2D/3D animation and hybrid approaches in visual creation
Each co-researcher receives funding in the form of student salaries to develop one or more research-creation projects. These projects contribute to the Labo Studio portfolio and result in original works, process documentation, scholarly presentations, and contributions to a collective volume edited by the Chair.
Labo Studio aims to reposition digital creativity as a fully recognized artistic field, beyond purely technological innovation frameworks. It also strengthens ties with the Hexagram network and promotes the dissemination of research outcomes through accessible formats, including the production of video capsules.
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CREATivity in Action: Stories of Digital Practices
9 March 2026
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.
“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.