The Society of Arts and Technology

The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) brings together creators who work with digital technologies, fostering collaboration among diverse artistic and scientific disciplines, establishing partnerships with industry and post-secondary educational institutions, and promoting its members at home and abroad.

The SAT’s activities facilitate access to human and technical resources and encourage reflection on issues related to the use of technology. With a unique mandate in Quebec, the SAT connects its membership to an international network of centres and organisations with similar or complementary objectives. With 24,000 square feet at its disposal in the heart of Montreal’s cultural corridor, the SAT has generated more than a hundred events in the last eighteen months and produced fifteen creations through its artists in residence program. Since its inception, SAT-sponsored productions have been presented in more than twenty countries and fifty cities.

A non-profit organization that is more than 90% self-funded through its production, touring and promotional activities, the SAT was founded in 1996 by several organizers of ISEA95 Montreal, an international symposium of electronic arts that saw the participation of 1,200 artists and professionals from around the world.