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Digital Art EmbedsItself in MontréalThe 1 st International Digital Arts Biennial(BIAN) from April to June 2012 cementedMontréal’s position as a centre of cultureand innovation. It’s the world’s only biennialdedicated specifically to installation art usingdigital technologies.The world premiere edition, a major showing ofpublic art and installations, was devised by the organizersof the Elektra Festival and the Associationpour la Création et la Recherche Électroacoustiquesdu Québec (ACREQ). They assembled an impressivenumber of museums, galleries, artist centres and culturalvenues. Under the theme of “Phenomena,” the internationalprogram included 71 artists and over 30,000appreciative fans at 33 venues across the metropolis.BIAN, with its three main components of art, culture anddigital technology, was an unqualified success.Connected and Creative in a Digital WorldYes, they’re major consumers of culture but they’re producers of it as well.The culture of young Montréalers is of their own making, immersed as theyare in a world greatly defined by the convergence of the Internet, video gamesand social networks.An Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) study commissionedby Culture Montréal has revealed that youth cultural practices are rich anddiverse. La participation culturelle des jeunes à Montréal shows that thisgeneration of Montrealers does not merely behave as passive users but alsoacts as producers.The advent of digital technology has made their relationship with culturemore complex: they share their music, photography and writing by postingthem online. Their cultural choices are eclectic, popular, local as well asinternational, niche and amateur. They are engaged and open, with a loyaltyto their communities and neighbourhoods that leads them to seek out servicesclose to home.The results will be used by public organizations and institutions to informtheir cultural programming strategies. They have new things to think aboutin terms of cultural participation, and audience and artistic development.45