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MUTEK is a Montreal-based
festival A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A ...
dedicated to the promotion of
electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
and the digital arts. Its central platform is an annual six-day event in
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that takes place in late August. Alongside the Montreal edition, MUTEK also hosts international versions of its festival.


History

Mutek was founded in 2000 by Alain Mongeau. A Mexican edition of MUTEK has taken place in Mexico City since 2003. Annual South American single and/or multi-day events have taken place in Argentina and Chile since 2002 and 2004 respectively. The 2004 Chilean version of the event was produced locally by Pol Taylor and Rocio Venegas with the collaboration of the Canadian team, and was called ¨Synthetic City¨. The event took place in Muelle Barón, in the port city of Valparaíso. Showcases have occurred in Brazil and Colombia as well. In 2005 MUTEK was among the first Western cultural organizations to send a delegation of electronic artists to China. In 2014, MUTEK paired with digital arts festival Elektra for the EM15 festival in Montreal.


See also

* List of electronic music festivals * List of experimental music festivals


References


External links

* * Music festivals established in 2000 Electronic music festivals in Canada Music festivals in Montreal Experimental music festivals Electronic music festivals in the United States New media art festivals Art festivals in Canada {{Music-festival-stub