DIGITAL ARTS

24, 25 et 26 septembre 2026

Upcoming programming

Digital arts are the reason for Lumifest's existence. An impressive lineup of about fifteen works will allow festival-goers to wander through a Vieux-Longueuil enhanced with projections, mystery, and a lot of light!

East and West entrances of the site

«I See You / Will You See Me?»
Anamika Deb

Set designer, digital artist, and space magician, Anamika Deb transforms technology into sensory poetry.

She's signing the animation of the impressive circular screens at the entrances for Lumifest with «I See You / Will You See Me?, a video installation that explores the presence and reciprocity of the gaze. It acknowledges the viewer — I see you — and invites you to dive into its different layers — Will you see me? Located at both the entrance and exit of the festival, the work frames the visitors' journey and encourages them to fully immerse themselves in the experience. By creating a dialogue between humans and their environment, it offers a spatial immersion that weaves an intimate and sensitive link with the public.

St. Mark's Park - East Side

In the Lumicube:
beam splicer and
Le laboratoire D'Atargatis 2.0

beamSplicer is an interactive video-laser mapping system installed in a retro-styled arcade cabinet. Its nostalgic design—featuring mechanical buttons and joysticks—playfully contrasts with the cutting-edge laser effects and real-time projections it displays, inviting people of all ages to interact and play.

Atargatis Laboratory is an interactive and immersive installation that invites the public to explore a post-anthropocene laboratory led by Atargatis, a transhuman creature traveling through the universe in search of habitable planets. Through a series of interactive experiments and logbooks, participants can reflect on the consequences of human actions on ecosystems and interact with Atargatis's universe through sensors and advanced digital technologies.

These installations will be presented on the Lumicube, the new Lumifest project on the run.

beamSplicer is a work of BunBun Chelsea Liggatt supermarket salad (Simon David Rydén) and Ziggy Halliday (AVX Lab).

Atargatis's Laboratory is a work by the collective PinkCloud under the artistic direction of Matthieu Thoër.

St. Mark's Park

Cégep Édouard-Montpetit
Multimedia Integration Techniques

The graduates of the Multimedia Integration Techniques [TIM] program propose a digital transformation of the heart of St. Mark's Park and its famous gazebo. Thus, 2 projects, developed, and even integrated for the first time last March, will be presented to the general public.

Introspectre is an immersive infinite room made of mirrors and reactive LED strips. The garlands respond to movements detected by a crystal ball placed at the center of the installation, projecting shifting reflections that envelop the visitor in an experience that is as captivating as it is disorienting. The angles of the room and the carefully designed lighting create a vivid and memorable impression.

Synergia is an interactive installation where light and music meet to offer a unique experience. You will be immersed in a space animated by five rotating light sticks, named Orbital, which create fascinating visual effects through their dynamic movements and lighting effects that you control by moving cubes.

BMO West Facade, Saint-Thomas Street

Loftysky

Loftysky is a real-time artificial intelligence image processing project. It is designed to create an interactive artwork merging video capture and interpretation of prompts This encounter between live imagery and written language allows for a visual delirium where ideas take shape through the camera. Visual generation, guided by text and produced instantly, opens up an unprecedented artistic research space where images and concepts respond to each other in an algorithmic choreography.

BMO facade on Saint-Charles Street

U-BLO(B)
Jérémy Fassio

A porthole onto a world of BLOB

In the heart of Old Longueuil, the BMO facade transforms into a giant porthole. Through this opening, a strange and playful world comes to life: that of the BLOB.

These monumental creatures appear, curious and benevolent, to greet the festival-goers. At once funny, bewildering, and endearing, the BLOBs shake up our perspective and invite us to dream of other possible worlds.

St. Mark's Church

HE/ART

HE/ART is an immersive work by digital artist Jocelyn Leduc presented by the Longueuil Arts Council. Through its repetitive beating motion, the complexity of its anatomy, and the sound it emits, the heart has always been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artist Jocelyn Leduc.

This one wishes to transform the church into a digital altar to invite the public on a non-narrative, multisensory journey through the full spectrum of human experience.

260 Saint-Charles Street - Front Facade

Kaleidoscopic Play
Julian Dorrell

Julian Dorrel is the British creative director of his company, Light Art Creatives. Having unofficially participated in the festival in 2023, he was inspired by the beauty of Longueuil and the warmth of the Quebec people. With Kaleidoscopic Play, I'm sorry, but your request is incomplete. Please provide the full text you want me to translate.[The] nose admires the splashed light that transforms and dances on the walls in an unparalleled fantasy.

Librairie Alire, 335 Saint-Charles - Front facade

Lithographie
Floydian Visual

Samuel Héroux, also known as Floydian Visual, is making his debut at Lumifest! Passionate about lasers and generative content, this curious technician, eager to explore new digital technologies, has decided to step into the spotlight this year. His work Lithographie Combine video and laser to transform the bookstore's façade into a dazzling architectural spectacle, where each beam enhances the stone and brings the space to life.

Marcel Robidas Cultural Center – ICI Musique Square

1657
Jocelyn Leduc

Specially created to highlight the 368th anniversary of the founding of Longueuil, 1657 is a mapping artwork by digital artist Jocelyn Leduc that will be projected onto the facade of the Marcel-Robidas building, a heritage gem of the region. Spectators will be invited on a journey through the archives of the multiple boroughs-
of the city to retrace the great moments of Longueuil, in a staging that is as modern as it is eclectic.

260 Saint-Charles Street West - Inner courtyard

L'illusoire
Marie-Soleil Lamonde

The illusory is an architectural sculpture composed of two optical illusions focused on opposite edges. Visitors are invited to experience the visual phenomenon intuitively. The viewing points are best when positioned 45 degrees from the cube; however, each individual interacts uniquely with the object depending on their height and position. Furthermore, light co-creates the experience, projecting patterns that interact with the surrounding architecture.

BMO Alley

Correspondance à distance
Creativ Room

Each sequence of Correspondance à distance It begins with a brief setting: a balcony at sunset, a notebook left on a table, a flickering CRT screen… Spectators walking through this installation find themselves literally caught in the void of secrecy. The artwork invites them to listen, to feel, to pause in a space where the raw and the poetic meet. A fragile correspondence, suspended between two walls, and a call for contemplative immersion.

Saint-Charles Street - In front of the Marcel-Robidas House of Culture

LUMIFEST Letters - an enduring classic
Dominique Arcand

Every year for the past four years, the artistic director takes some time to create a video mapping projection on the giant letters representing the festival. Humbly, he chooses his sequences and ends up animating this installation, which brings joy to festival-goers... and is a real Instagram Story magnet!

Saint-Charles Ouest Street - Facing St. Mark Park

Desjardins Studio

Walking into the Desjardins Studio, ..., festival-goers will find themselves in a space set up like a recording studio. Thanks to a console combining physical buttons and a touchscreen with interactive software, they will have the opportunity to first produce their own musical track and then their album cover within the new immersive setting composed of infinite mirrors! Le Studio Desjardins will allow for the creation of a unique piece in a very intuitive way. Once the experience is complete, download your musical track and your cover art and share it on your social media.