Director Alain Thibault launched the Elektra Festival in 1999. Since then this showcase for electronic arts and music has distinguished itself by its efforts to challenge the borders between different aesthetic approaches in emerging digital culture. Elektra attempts to look beyond the walls often erected between schools or styles and focus on presenting leading edge digital works based solely on their quality. Robotics, digital imaging and a broad range of types of music from electroacoustic to electronica share the stage. This eclectic approach to programming, combined with the exceptional environment offered by the Usine C, allows Elektra to open up the digital and technological arts to an increasingly broad public and to present major works by local, national and international artists.

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media info : Adrian Gonzalez, adrian@elektrafestival.ca