Our program of artist residencies in research and creation are offered every year. Click here for information about the artist in residence call for proposals.
Time Travel Has Always Been Possible by Ray invites visitors to explore Ada X’s living archives through play, memory, and speculation. Since 2008, Ada X has developed Matricules: a visual and documentary record of its activities, now containing thousands of digital files 30 years after its 1996 founding. Rejecting…
Call for Local Residency Projects 2026-2027 On a Human Scale Deadline: Monday, April 13th, 2026 before 23h59 (Montreal, EST) The Local Residency Program at Ada X is open to women, trans, non-binary, and queer artists exploring critical and experimental practices in media arts, digital culture, and feminist technological…
Common Ground | Marion Schneider [residency presentation]
Common Ground | Marion Schneider Residency presentation Thursday April 2nd, 2026 6pm-9pm Discussion starts at 7pm Ada X, 4001 rue Berri, # 201 and on Zoom [contact info@ada-x.org for the link] > This event is free and open to all > Snacks…
Residency presentation and virtual reality experience Friday, March 6, 2026, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Discussion at 6:30 p.m. At Ada X, 4001 Berri Street, #201 > The event is free and open to all > Snacks and drinks will be served > With…
Common Ground Marion Schneider In residence from February 3rd to March 27th 2026 At Ada X Common Ground is a research-creation project exploring how digital art can become a space for improvisation, shared attention, and collaboration between humans, machines, plants, and mushrooms. At the crossroads between queer…
i am the metric | Natacha Clitandre [residency presentation]
i am the metric | Natacha Clitandre Residency presentation Tuesday January 27th 2026 6pm to 9pm Discussion starts at 6:30 At Ada X, 4001 rue Berri, # 201 and on Zoom [contact info@ada-x.org to register] > This event is free and open to…
i am the metric Natacha Clitandre In residence from November 11th 2025 to January 23rd 2026 At Ada X i am the metric is an atmospheric digital installation exploring a Montreal that lacks value in the collective imagination through nocturnal liminal spaces, passages and spaces of…
Mooring, Waters, From Far Away | Frida Jiaying Chen [residency presentation]
Mooring, Waters, From Far Away | Frida Jiaying Chen Residency presentation Friday November 7th, 2025 From 6 to 9 pm Discussion starts at 6:30 At Ada X, 4001 rue Berri, # 201 and on Zoom [contact info@ada-x.org to register for the Zoom link] >…
Mooring, Waters, From Far Away | Frida Jiaying Chen
Mooring, Waters, From Far Away Frida Jiaying Chen In residence from September 3rd to November 1st 2025 At Ada X Mooring, Waters, From Far Away is a mixed-media installation interweaving geocoding, mapping, and meteorology. It traces the ocean’s dual quality—as a reservoir of cultural memory for coastal…
Vivarium Marian Godbout In residence from September 1st to December 26th 2025 At Ada X Vivarium is an interactive story-telling project in virtual reality inspired by amateur fishkeeping. While humans are more and more isolated indoors and looking at the world through screens, the growing trend…
Allo Ada residency opportunity: 3D modeling, virtual and augmented reality at Ada X
Allo Ada residency opportunity: 3D modeling, virtual and augmented reality at Ada X * Calling emerging artists Residency start date: September 1, 2025 End date of residency: December 26, 2025 Hours worked per week: 40 Hourly wage: $23.00 Join us at Ada X…
AKA Herring Park | Simone Lucas Kłodawa [residency presentation]
AKA Herring Park | Simone Lucas Kłodawa Residency presentation Wednesday June 11th, 2025 From 6 to 9 pm At Ada X, 4001 rue Berri, # 201 and on zoom [contact info@ada-x.org to register for the zoom link] > This event is mask-mandatory, free and open…
AKA, Herring Park Simone Lucas Kłodawa In residence from April 8 until June 6 2025 At Ada X What if history had a smell? From 1955-57, in the industrial city of Łódź, Poland, it did. The site of a former herring market in the working-class…