Summer 2023 LAB7 commissioned HABO to gain a better understanding of what professionals working with performing arts and technology need in terms of services and ecosystem support. LAB7 wanted to know how they work, what their main impediments are, and make sure to offer the services and projects they really need. HABO’s team of consultants conducted individual interviews with professionals from the performing arts, multimedia studios and experiential marketing agencies. This consultation focused on their use of technology, their research…
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November, 2023 LAB7 had the great pleasure to welcome PHI Studio for two weeks of prototyping with mixed reality and motion capture. As part of an immersive theater project by director Craig Quintero, founder…
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Autumn 2023 SYNTHÈSE – Pôle Image Québec helped LAB7 find the perfect fit through their ARRISTAGE internship contest! Vincent Ladouceur is a master’s student at NAD in Art and Digital Design – Virtual…
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October 18th, 2023 For several years we’ve been exploring how technology can enhance live performance. What a pleasant surprise for our team to receive the HUB Innovation Award for Carry Me Home: the first-ever…
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September, 2023 September 13, 2023, saw the first meeting of LAB7’s brand-new Advisory Board, bringing together renowned professionals from the performing arts, multimedia creation, research, education and financing. They shared their knowledge and experience…
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Isabelle Domens, April 2023 What if you carry a circus performance, in 3D, in your phone and watch it anywhere? It is possible with augmented reality, a technology that superimposes virtual content on the…
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Isabelle Domens, Spring 2023 As part of their spring 2023 session, a group of five graduating software engineering students and one graduating computer engineering student at Polytechnique Montreal took on a prototyping project for…
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Isabelle Domens, May 2023 We gave a tour of our creation center to two groups of professionals and investors and presented some of the projects underway at Les 7 Doigts, including LAB7. We shared…
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Isabelle Domens, May 2023 Done in collaboration with our research partner CRITAC, our fifth laboratory was dedicated to evaluating and comparing different motion capture systems, and assess their performance on a selection of circus…
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On March 20th, En Piste organized its Digital Workshop in our studios: two days dedicated to the integration of technological arts in circus creation. Circus artists and creators participated in interactive and participatory workshops…