ON STAGE
Geneviève Rochette - actress
A woman of many talents, Geneviève Rochette has a combined career as an actress, screenwriter, author, and comedian, in which she also excels. Well known to the general public for her appearances on television, notably in Au nom du père, Omertà, Réseaux, Virginie, Mirador, 30 vies, La Galère. She subsequently went on to star in several other television series, including Mirador, Ruptures, Unité 9, Fugeuse, Clash, District 31, Un lien Familial, Indéfendable, Avant le crash, Projet innocence, Alertes, L’Indétectable.
Annie Roy - research, writing and directing
Alongside a career in the world of new dance, Annie Roy co-founded ATSA - When Art Takes Action in 1997 with her late partner, Pierre Allard, who passed away in November 2018. For 21 years, the duo, in life and in art, implemented more than sixty urban interventions (installations, events, participatory stagings) reflecting the social and environmental aberrations that concerned them. ATSA's creations restore the civic dimension of public spaces as open spaces for discussion and societal debate. Annie continues to activate ATSA's action-works and invites you to join the project The Farm or how to feed an intelligent future, in 2025.
ON THE CUBE'S SCREEN
Dave Anctil - professor and researcher
PhD, is a Professor at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and an affiliated researcher at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology (OBVIA), and an Expert Advisor on Adaptation to AI, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Université Laval. His research focuses primarily on human-machine interaction, particularly the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and virtual reality (VR) in political, professional, social, and personal spheres. He also devotes himself to popularizing science and teaching professionals about new technologies, as well as consulting on the issues, risks, and benefits associated with new technologies.
Mathieu Dugal - journalist, columnist, radio and television host, author of the book AI, How Machines Could Replace Us
Mathieu Dugal is a host of the show Moteur de recherche on Radio-Canada Première. Communicating issues related to the popularization and better understanding of digital culture and culture in the digital world have been part of his career for 20 years as a journalist, columnist, and radio and television host. Mathieu Dugal is the author of the book AI - How Machines Could Replace Us.
Valentine Goddard - speaker of the workshop Digital sovereignty
Lawyer and artist Valentine Goddard is the founder and executive director of the AI Impact Alliance (AIIA), a non-profit organization founded in 2017 whose mission is to research the social impacts of AI. She is a member of Canada's AI Advisory Council, a UN public policy and governance expert, and directs the International Center of Expertise on Art, AI, Law and Society.
Steven Guilbeault - Member of Parliament for Laurier-Sainte-Marie, author of The Co-founder of the Quebec environmental organization Équiterre, he was its senior director and spokesperson from 2008 to 2018. He also worked for ten years for the Canadian branch of Greenpeace as director and campaign manager in Quebec.
He has been a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons since October 21, 2019, elected in the district of Laurier—Sainte-Marie under the banner of the Liberal Party of Canada, and serves as Minister of Canadian Heritage. During his first term, he was Minister of the Environment from October 26, 2021 to March 14, 2025, then Minister of Culture and Canadian Identity and Parks Canada from that date.
Michal Seta - artist and researcher
Michal Seta is a sound artist, improviser, coder, and digital arts researcher. Michal is a composer and improviser whose work revolves around digital technologies. Having crossed the boundaries between art, music, architecture, electronics, poetry, software, and the Canadian winter, he works with the spoken word and music duo UniSecs, collaborates with various people on various projects involving sound and technology, leads workshops on open-source software applications for music and sound production, and develops his own way of enriching his instrument with a digital heart. Michal Seta is a research associate at matralab.
CREATION TEAM
Raymond Marius Boucher - set design consultant
Raymond Marius Boucher has worked as a set designer on over 100 theatrical productions, created sets for dance and film, and designed the stage designs for several exhibitions. He has been nominated four times since 1995 by the Académie Québécoise du Théâtre for his exceptional work, which has traveled not only across Canada, but also to the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and Sweden. Since 2002, as a senior lecturer, he has shared his experience and knowledge with theatre design students at Concordia University. He served as President of the Association des Professionnels des Arts de la Scène du Québec (APASQ) from 2007 to 2011, and since 2014 has served as President of the Jean-Paul Mousseau Foundation and Vice President of the Société de Développement du Musée des Arts Vivants du Québec. In 2018, he obtained his master's degree in theater from the UQAM School of Theater.
Brigitte Poupart - mentorship
Brigitte Poupart is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated from the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. Since 1990, she has performed in over 30 stage productions in Quebec, the United States, Europe, and Australia, as well as in award-winning films and television series. A member of the Zapartistes collective, she co-founded the company Transthéâtre in 1991, which she still co-directs. Several of her works have been staged by the company. Recognized for her ambitious creations for dramatic and musical productions, she has collaborated with Misteur Valaire, Beast, Alexandre Désilets, Betty Bonifassi, and Yann Perreau. Brigitte was nominated for an ADISQ award for her work on Perreau's show Un serpent sous leurs fleurs. Since 2008, she has been the artistic director of the Festival international de la chanson de Granby. The documentary Over My Dead Body, chosen as the closing film of the 30th Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, is his first feature film.
Anna Doumet - creative assistant
After studying interior design and then theatre design at Concordia University, this designer puts her talents and expertise to good use on a wide variety of projects. Passionate about sharing her knowledge, she is also very involved in children's theatre. She joins the ATSA team to bring her expertise to the creation of our major 2025 project The Farm or how to feed an intelligent future. The Conseil des Arts de Montréal's démART-Mtl program made possible Anna Doumet's participation in The Farm's project as a creative assistant.
Gauthier Aboudaram - video editing
A longtime cinema enthusiast, he founded the Clap Campus association while at university, which he directed (directing, producing, managing the budget and equipment, organizing film screenings, etc.) until the end of his studies and his move to Montreal in 2014. There, he entered the film industry and directed short films and music videos alongside his work on set.
Gauthier aims to explore a cinema that navigates genres, while addressing themes such as self-discovery, family, and what lies behind the Strange.
Alexandre Chartrand - enregistrement des entrevues
Alexandre Chartrand is a Quebec painter and filmmaker. He directed the feature film La Planque (2004) and produced the documentary Lemoyne (2005). He has worked as a film editor since the early 2000s, notably for the documentary Godin (Simon Beaulieu, 2011), for which he won a Gémeaux Award, in addition to directing several music videos, television documentaries, and short films. From 2003 to 2011, he offered editing and directing workshops for several organizations and institutions, including the cultural activities of the Université de Montréal, and he was invited to speak several times to students in the Film Studies department at Université Laval. His career in visual arts includes two photography exhibitions, the performance evenings Les Décapantes en diable (from 2002 to 2004) and four solo painting exhibitions(Totalitarisme économique 2010, Hommage à Godin 2011, On se fait tous fourrer 2012 et Dix ans 2013).
Maryse Carrier - costumes
Maryse has danced professionally for over 30 years for various companies and independent choreographers. Over the years, she has enhanced her experience with numerous classes and projects as a performer in singing, theater, clown, television, and film. She taught movement for 13 years for Dance Against Violence to women in shelters. Since 2020, she has been an audiobook narrator for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). She has always loved costume and was able to further pursue one of her passions by working as a costume assistant and manager at Espaces Costumes for four years. She has collaborated with ATSA in various ways since its inception.
Izabel Zimmer - show photography
Izabel Zimmer opened her first photography studio in 1991. She specialized in actor portraits for many years, and she also collaborated as a set photographer for television and Quebec film shoots. Izabel made a big shift around 2015 and decided to move to the countryside where she built her new home. She welcomes visitors to her cottage in the heart of a beautiful maple grove that she operates in an artisanal way until 2022. By becoming a maple syrup producer and curious about local products, she takes more and more care of what she puts on her plate! She occasionally collaborates in event photography in her rural environment. She remains on the lookout for photo projects in her hometown, Montreal, where she loves to return. She has just broadened her photographic horizons by participating in a major project in an Indigenous community. A mixed project of portraits and architectural structures…..an exciting project in the making.
TECHNICAL TEAM
Eddy Rixhon - technical director
Charles Sylvestre - cube assembly and disassembly
Solotech - screen and cube assembly
Électroperformance - electricity
Thank you to the city of Montreal.
SPEAKERS TEAM
More information about your speakers and workshops here.
Daria Marchenko - speaker
Daria Marchenko will lead the workshop "Digital sobriety"
Valentine Goddard - speaker
Valentine Goddard will lead the workshop "Digital Sovereignty".
MEDIATION TEAM
Multitudes - mediation team
Multitudes is a citizen movement that brings together people from different backgrounds around a project of social and ecological transformation of Quebec. Faced with the advancing oligarchy, Multitudes proposes a radically opposite path: the path of democracy. A democracy anchored in the territories, truly inclusive, which integrates the economy and gives us back power.