{"id":15814,"date":"2014-06-26T05:43:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T09:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=15814"},"modified":"2014-06-22T19:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T23:47:05","slug":"digital_spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/digital_spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s Digital Spring, Prise 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, more than 200 people attended the closing party of Montreal\u2019s digital spring at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) building, 1201 St. Laurent. The celebration was the official closing\u00a0for a festival of 77 digital events by special effects companies, video game makers, electronica creators, web specialists, museums and other digital creators.<\/p>\n

\"from<\/a>
from left to right: Mouna Andraos, Digital Spring spokesperson; Nathalie Maill\u00e9, Montreal\u2019s arts council CEO; Richard Deschamps, 1st vp of CRE; H\u00e9l\u00e8ne David, minister of culture, communications and responsible for the promotion and protection of the French language; Monique Savoie, president, founder and artistic director of SAT; and Marie-Claire Dumas, CRE CEO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The official spokespeople for the event were Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiatfrom the Daily tous les jours\u00a0studio. They were the ones who set up 21 swings on President Kennedy to allow anyone to make music. Mongiat couldn\u2019t attend the closing ceremonies, but Andraos spoke.<\/p>\n

Montreal is a internationally-recognized capital in the field of digital arts, but also in the video game and special events industries,\u201d she said. \u201cMontreal is digital and we are pleased to contribute to consolidate its position.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Attendees included urban activists like Phyllis Lambert; representatives from 70 different participating organizations, ranging from Elektra to Pointe-\u00e0-Calli\u00e8re; and politicians from all levels of government. Culture and communications Minister H\u00e9l\u00e8ne David spoke about how successful the event was in terms of media coverage and attendance. Richard Deschamps, first vice-president of the regional conference of elected officials (CRE), which sponsored the event, also spoke. (Deschamps also serves LaSalle borough citizens as a city councillor.)<\/p>\n

Initially, our only ambition for our first edition was to amplify a sector in which our region is emerging as an international leader, but is relatively unknown in the general population,\u201d said Deschamps. \u201cWe are very impressed by the scale of community mobilization and impact this season. We\u2019ve been given a special visibility tool that will allow us to grow even bigger in the coming years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deschamps describes the event as though 2014 was its inaugural year, but a similar, smaller event was initially launched in 2005 with 13 participating organizations. That festival was headed by Michel Lemieux and promoted via two websites, www.printempsnumerique.ca<\/a> and www.digitalspring.ca<\/a>. Both websites were replaced this year with http:\/\/printempsnumerique.info<\/a> and http:\/\/printempsnumerique.ca<\/a>, but only the .info site links properly to the English section.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s digital spring festival officially ran from March 21 until last Saturday night. If you missed it, you can still get an idea about what is was about by catching Fabien Giraud and Raphael Soboni\u2019s \u201cThe Unmanned\u201d at the Vox Gallery until June 28 or Dreamscapes, a retrospective of Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon\u2019s 4d art performances at the Museum of Fine Arts until August 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, more than 200 people attended the closing party of Montreal\u2019s digital spring at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) building, 1201 St. Laurent. The celebration was the official closing\u00a0for a festival of 77 digital events by special effects companies, video game makers, electronica creators, web specialists, museums and other digital creators. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[440,441,439,96,442,443,444],"class_list":["post-15814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","tag-77-events","tag-digital-creators","tag-digital-spring","tag-montreal","tag-special-effects-companies","tag-video-game-makers","tag-web-designers","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-474","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1677,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/new-york-digital-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":15814,"position":0},"title":"New York’s Digital Efforts Inspiring for Montreal","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"May 8, 2013","format":"video","excerpt":"Last month, Rachel Sterne visited Montreal to talk about New York City's efforts to create a digital city. A key element is legislation that requires all government data to be released in a digital form eventually. The conference was set up by Montreal's\u00a0l'Office de consultation publique de Montr\u00e9al as they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Island Report"","block_context":{"text":"Island Report","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/island-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15691,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreal-rejuvenation-coderre\/","url_meta":{"origin":15814,"position":1},"title":"Denis Coderre’s Montreal Rejuvenation Plans","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"April 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Leading Montreal\u2019s three-day trade mission to New York this week is among eight ways Mayor Denis Coderre plans to rejuvenate his city. So he told Southwest Chamber of Commerce business leaders during a lunchtime speech at Cegep Andr\u00e9-Laurendeau in LaSalle last Thursday. He spent part of his speech giving his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Island Report"","block_context":{"text":"Island Report","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/island-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Coderre","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Coderre-232x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16836,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/is-print-journalism-ailing\/","url_meta":{"origin":15814,"position":2},"title":"Is Print Journalism Ailing?","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"January 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This week, the Toronto Star posted an article claiming that the federal government will announce a $50 million program to promote local journalism in its budget Tuesday. This could be good or bad, depending on the criteria for the program. Presumably, the program is in response to John Honderich's excellent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Journalism"","block_context":{"text":"Journalism","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/writing\/notable-nonfiction\/journalism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1224,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/infrastructure-savings-enable-lasalle-to-pave-champlain\/","url_meta":{"origin":15814,"position":3},"title":"Infrastructure Savings Enable LaSalle to Pave Champlain","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"October 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The public works department in the borough of LaSalle saved enough money on their paving contracts this year that they are able to pave Champlain Blvd. between Bishop Power and the borough of Verdun before the snow flies. The work is underway now and scheduled to be completed by November\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "LaSalle"","block_context":{"text":"LaSalle","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/lasalleposts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15609,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreal_foreign_investment\/","url_meta":{"origin":15814,"position":4},"title":"Montreal attracts more foreign investment","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"April 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A skilled talent pool, low corporate taxes, high quality of life, a dynamic environment and a network of integrated companies in key industries make Montreal an attractive location for foreign investment. In the last ten years, people are coming here because there is a dynamic environment and the pool of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Island Report"","block_context":{"text":"Island Report","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/island-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Anglade","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anglade.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15639,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/major-developments-change-face-montreal\/","url_meta":{"origin":15814,"position":5},"title":"Major Developments Change the Face of Montreal","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"April 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Game-changing investments in five different Montreal neighbourhoods are rejuvenating the face of Montreal. So says Claude Marcotte, a partner and executive vice-president in Carbonleo Story Builders. Despite what we hear and what we read in the paper about Montreal, the city is moving. There\u2019s lots of action. This kind of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Island Report"","block_context":{"text":"Island Report","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/island-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Marcotte","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marcotte.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15817,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814\/revisions\/15817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}