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When the Société des arts technologiques (SAT) opened its doors on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in 1996, it opened the city up to a non-profit dedicated entirely to digital culture and technological art. Built on the premise that digital culture deserved the same institutional support as any other art form, it felt genuinely radical at the time.
It still is today: Thirty years later, the SAT has hosted more than 6,000 artists, built its crowning dome of the Satosphere into one of the most technically sophisticated immersive venues in the world, and has over time become one of the reasons Montreal's digital arts scene punches at the weight it does internationally. It's a research centre, a production house, a training ground, and on the right night, one of the best places in the city to lose yourself completely to sound and light. That it has managed to be all of those things simultaneously, without losing the thread on any of them, is an achievement worth marking.
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