NUIT BLANCHE
INTERFACES – Nuit blanche at PHI
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- Mixed Arts
- Music
315 Saint-Paul Street West
9 PM to 3 AM
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18 years old +
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A night-long program of live performance, installations, and electronic music
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About the Event
For the 2026 edition of Nuit blanche in Montreal, PHI, in collaboration with World Creation Studio, invites audiences to discover a program bringing together visual, sound, and live arts. Through performances, digital works, and interactive experiences, the project explores the potential of video games and online culture as spaces for creation, projection, and experimentation with new realities.
Conceived as a celebration of digital culture's ability to reflect the urgencies of the contemporary world while opening the door to other possibilities, the evening offers an immersive and festive journey. INTERFACES will feature performances specially imagined for the occasion, followed by a series of collaborations between Montreal’s electronic music scene and visual creators, resulting in DJ sets. Alongside this, digital and interactive works will further explore the themes of the evening.
Performances
9:30 PM TO 3 AM
Maude Veilleux
Fannie L’Heureux
Durational Furtive Performance
Music
10:30 PM TO 3 AM
con secuencias
Hybrid DJ Set
CIBER1A
Live Performance
SUUTOO
Live Performance
Monsieurmadam
Hybrid DJ Set
o0yu
VJ
Milo Reinhardt
VJ
Installations
9 PM TO 3 AM
Eyez Li
Wandering at the Exit of Deity
Sound by Noah Sherrin
Wandering at the Exit of Deity (2024-2025) immerses viewers in a speculative sci-fi world where humanity has undergone a profound bio-digital transformation. Viewers are invited to witness the intertwined existence of MetaE and BetaE—two beings inhabiting this reality—delving into their mutual devouring, fusion, and dissociation. MetaE exists on the cosmic scale, emerging as liquid-like reflections in spacetime’s vast Dirac Sea while BetaE exists on a microscopic scale, formed from cellular colonies bathed in shimmering nutrient solutions.
The experience takes place within a world of millions of jellyfish-like living bubble units which are sustained by a Deity who has risen from the Earth’s core after observing humanity for hundreds of thousands of years. When a sudden neural glitch occurs within one of the bubbles BetaE’s enhanced reality mask gets disrupted, revealing a reflection of another self from before the post-human era. The viewer is confronted by a once hidden, dissonant reality, asking us to consider how the revelation of hidden truths can impact our imagining of the future.
Riven Chen
Traveling Through a Peach Garden
Traveling Through a Peach Garden (2025) is a CG-based interactive work that explores East Asian philosophies of nature while critically engaging with structured systems. Built as a semi-open world using a game engine, it invites players to collect natural and spiritual elements and participate in metaphysical dialogues through virtual avatars.
Rooted in a healing journey shaped by ancient Chinese medicine and spiritual practice, the project reimagines healing not as a cure, but as a reconstruction of perception. Through speculative worldbuilding and references to East Asian metaphysics, the work interrogates modernist orders and normative constructs of the body and self, in dialogue with queer and decolonial perspectives. It situates itself within a lineage of digital art practices that use virtuality to critique systems of control, proposing instead a symbolic landscape where the body, knowledge, and environment are reentangled.
About the Artists
Maude Veilleux is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She develops a research-creation practice at the intersection of writing, performance, and digital arts. Her recent research focuses on the aesthetics of flow and on contemporary transformations of sign systems and their interpretation, in dialogue with algorithmic cultures. She has published several poetry collections and novels. In 2023, Les choses de la lumière (Marchand de feuilles) brought together ten years of her poetry. Her work has been presented in numerous institutions and festivals across Canada, Europe, West Africa, and Asia.
Fannie L’Heureux is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on the revalorization of the feminine and resilience as an act of resistance. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM and explores the interrelationships between the body, femininity, consumer objects, and digital media. Her work has been presented at DARE-DARE, La Charpente des fauves, the Côte-des-Neiges Cultural Centre, and the Georges-Émile-Lapalme Cultural Space (Place des Arts), as well as as part of RIPA 2025 and Artch 2025. She is the recipient of the McAbbie Foundation Excellence Scholarship (2022). She lives and works in Montréal.
Born and raised in Mexico City, based in Montréal, sound artist, music producer and sound system technician.
Established in Montréal since 2018, he has a bachelor's degree in Electroacoustics and Sound Creation from Université de Montréal. His practice spans sound art, music production, and sound system installations. He releases music under the name con secuencias, exploring different iterations of electronic music through an experimental approach rooted in traditional Latin American dance music influences. His music has been released through labels such as WVWV (MX), Terminal (MX) and Swine Records (SK+CZ). He has worked on sound design and multichannel mixing across platforms such as VR, 360-degree Dome, and Dolby Atmos.
He’s a former resident artist at World Creation Studio - CO/CREATE (2023), PHI North (2025) as well as MUTEK Incubator (2025).
He currently runs SONIDO FURIA, a Latinx-led sound system rooted in the Mexican sonidero tradition and the wider history of Latin American sound systems. The project draws from different regional approaches to mobile sound culture and traditional dance music, while supporting independent local collectives. SONIDO FURIA creates a space for the Latin American diaspora in the city to gather, dance, and connect, keeping these traditions alive while adapting them to modern club contexts.
Rodolfo Rueda (b.1998) is a multidisciplinary artist developing his craft in music and photography. Born in Lima, Peru and now based in Montreal, Canada; Rodolfo graduated from the Jazz performance program at McGill University.
He currently releases music under the alias CIBER1A where he experiments with electronic music, free improv, and afro peruvian rhythms. His most recent release "B0ZAL" came out by the end of 2024 on MTL based label "Humidex records". Rodolfo currently working as sound designer/composer for renowned choreographer Andrea Peña (APARTISTS)in pieces like “SACRA” performed by Ballet BC and most recently “Bogota” performed by AP&A dance company.
Rodolfo is currently delving into many disciplines and working as a photographer, composer/sound designer and session bass player for a distinct array of projects. Rodolfo’s work has been presented previously at Tangente’s “Dances buissonnieres” with the piece “Feast of Fishbones” by Camille Huang, he also performed at the Montreal International Jazz Festival 2025 alongside Karneef. He most recently attended the Fusion art residency (2025) in Japan were he had the chance to explore distinct new artforms and also Dj’d and performed alongside performer Yu Taniuchi and sound artist Toshiji Mikawa during his stay in Tokyo.
Rooted in world-building, SUUTOO’s practice spans musical composition, movement, installation, video, and visual material, guided by an ongoing inquiry into transformation, emancipation, transience, and the affective potential of sound.
Moving between experimental art spaces and underground music contexts, SUUTOO has presented work at institutions and festivals including HKW for Transmediale (Berlin), Café Oto (London), Haus der Kunst (Munich), South London Gallery, Basel Social Club (Switzerland), Tanzquartier (Vienna), Intonal Festival (Malmö), Woodblocks Festival (Brussels), and Ormside Projects (London), among others. Her recorded work includes a remix on Kelela’s critically acclaimed album RAVE:N (The Remixes), and she was shortlisted for the CIRCA Art Prize 2025.
Her sound exists in the in-between, weaving noise, intimacy, spirituality, and myth into immersive sonic environments and embodied performances that resist fixed meaning.
All SUUTOO wants to be is free.
Monsieurmadam (they/them) is the artistic name of Montréal-based multidisciplinary artist and sound architect Al Haytame Farsane, whose practice merges experimental electronic music, ritual vocal work, and diasporic memory. Moving fluidly between club culture and sound art, their compositions operate at the threshold of ritual and rave, using the voice as both personal archive and sonic force. Through field recordings, distorted harmonies, and textured rhythmic structures, their work explores migration, queerness, belonging, and the blurred emotional space between human and machine.
Beyond their individual practice, Monsieurmadam is the founder and curator of AFT3RWE4R Live, a platform and monthly event series amplifying diasporic and queer voices within Montréal’s experimental music ecosystem. Through performance, curation, and community-building, their work contributes to expanding the possibilities of live electronic music as a site of ritual, storytelling, and collective experience.
Yuki, aka o0yu (CAN/JP) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal who wanders across experimental film, textile work, electronic sculpture and audiovisual performance. Inspired by languages, movements and natures, their work transports the audience to unknown nostalgic spaces while looking in an experimental and poetic way for in-betweens and beyonds, softness and excitement.
Milo Reinhardt is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound, experimental video, and immersive audiovisual work. Active since 2015, his work examines how technological conditions shape perception and collective experience.
Reinhardt is a core member of the artist collective susy.technology, with whom he has developed and presented audiovisual works internationally. His work has been shown at institutions and festivals including MUTEK (Montreal, Japan, San Francisco), Sónar Barcelona, Forum des images (Paris), Printemps numérique (Brussels), ISEA, ELEKTRA, Usine C, Eastern Bloc, and the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Through the collective, he has participated in immersive creation residencies at SAT and Château Éphémère (France), contributing to projects spanning fulldome performance, immersive film, and multi-channel installation. Recent works include ASTATIC as part of INSCAPE x MUTEK: New Homeostasis, as well as ANTILOGY and INDIVISIBLE.
He is the co-founder and director of World Creation Studio, an artist-run nonprofit based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Since 2020, he has led the development of artist residencies, public programming, and shared infrastructure supporting experimental practices in sound and digital media. His role includes directing artist residency programs, producing public programming and fostering long-term support structures for emerging and mid-career artists working across sound, with immersive and digital tools.
Reinhardt holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice from Concordia University.
Eyez明瞳 was born in Haikou, a tropical island in China, and grew up across diverse cultural landscapes, from Ürümqi in Uyghur Autonomous Region to Shanghai, LA, Tokyo, and now Montreal Canada.
She builds immersive non-linear experiences that intersect between XR film, interactive art and indie games. Her works create prospects of cybernetic future inspired by Asian social landscape, and play with identity nuances in the era where the slices between machine & human intelligence, reality & virtual are smudging.
Their artworks are in several collections like Beijing Times Art Museum, Elektra Galerie Montreal EVM, and presented internationally at ISEA2025 Seoul, Mutek Festival and VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival), awarded at Berlin Art Week by 4th CIFRA Future Recipes track.
Riven (Taoyu) Chen is an intermedia artist born in China and based in Montreal. Through a research-based worldbuilding practice, they develop a speculative epistemological approach that bridges art and philosophy. Their practice integrates game engines, CGI, artificial intelligence, and electronic components to create interactive installations that explore tensions between structured systems, fictional identities, and decentralized imaginaries. Riven’s practice combines philosophical reflection with artistic construction, using fictional worlds to reinterpret the latent and explicit contradictions of human civilization. These simulated worlds reveal the fractures and instabilities within existing cognitive frameworks.
Their work has been or will be presented at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Seoul, SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver, PHI in Montréal, the Milieux Institute, Festival International du Film sur l'Art, and in the exhibition Charpente des fauves. Riven holds an MFA in Intermedia from Concordia University in Montreal and a BFA in Public Art from Xi’an Academy of Fine arts.
World Creation Studio
World Creation Studio is an artist-run nonprofit supporting experimental and interdisciplinary work in digital, sound, and immersive art. The organization provides shared studio space, residencies, workshops, and resources for the creation and presentation of new work.
