New Media art festivals

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents 1 Europe 1.1 UK 1.2 Austria 1.3 Czech Republic 1.4 France 1.5 Germany 1.6 Norway 1.7 The Netherlands 1.8 Slovakia 1.9 Poland 2 Latin America 2.1 Brazil 2.2 Peru 3 North America 3.1 Canada 3.2 United States 4 Asia 4.1 Thailand 4.2 Hong Kong 5 Oceania 5.1 Australia 5.2 New Zealand

[edit] Europe

[edit] UK

AV Festival. UK's largest electronic arts festival, featuring exhibitions, film, music and newly commissioned works. It is bi-annual and based in the three main urban centres of the North East of England, NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.

onedotzero. World's largest digital film festival that encompasses many new media projects, international events, commissioned and produced works. Based in London, with venue home at the [ICA].

Lovebytes. Sheffield-based experimental digital arts and media festival.

Optronica. International VJ festival and screenings at London's NFT.

[edit] Austria

Prix Ars Electronica, the largest international New Media festival is held in Linz annually.

[edit] Czech Republic

Brno Zoom Czech new media festival - Digital Culture Showcase.

[edit] France

Rencontres Internationales (International Meetings) takes place in Paris and Berlin. 2005's festival presented a program with 250 films, videos and multimedia works from 75 countries.

Make Art takes place in Poitiers, this one week event is dedicated to free libre and open source software (FLOSS) and arts.

[edit] Germany

transmediale - international media art festival Berlin

[edit] Norway

Matchmaking Trondheim Matchmaking festival for new technology and electronic arts

Piksel - dedicated to Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) audiovisual software and art. Takes place in Bergen.

[edit] The Netherlands

DEAF - Dutch Electronic Art Festival is a biannual international festival for electronic art, presented by V2, Institute for the Unstable Media, in Rotterdam.

Gogbot - Gogbot is an annual international festival for new media art, presented by PlanetArt in Enschede.

[edit] Slovakia

Multiplace - new media culture festival which lacks the central organization, it is rather a collective effort of various organizers and associations responsible for the projects at different locations in Slovakia, Czech republic and others.

[edit] Poland

WRO - WRO International Media Art Biennale presents directions of development and changes in contemporary art created with the use of contemporary communication tools, including video art, computer animation, interactive art, art CD-ROMs, performances, net art, concerts, multimedia spectacles and other artistic net projects.

[edit] Latin America

[edit] Brazil

Electronic Language International Festival (FILE).Festival of new media art organized yearly since 2000 in São Paulo, Brazil.

[edit] Peru

Festival Internacional de Video/Arte/Electrónica. Festival of video and electronic arts.

[edit] North America

[edit] Canada

Images Festival is the largest Canadian festival for new media and installation arts.

New Forms Festival multi-disciplinary arts festival featuring Canadian and international artists.

Interactive Futures a forum for showing recent tendencies in new media art as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology.

[edit] United States

Freewaves, The LA Freewaves experimental new media art festival is online and in Los Angeles art venues featuring local and international artists.

IMCexpo, The Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo (IMCexpo) is a new media art show & trade show in New York City (2005 IMCexpo held at the Chelsea Art Museum)

[edit] Asia

[edit] Thailand

Thailand New Media Art Festival (MAF) is an annual international festival involving more than 200 artists. No entry fee.

[edit] Hong Kong

Microwave is an annual, international multi-media art festival.

[edit] Oceania

[edit] Australia

Electrofringe (Official website) is a festival of digital, electronic and new media arts. Its focus is on emergent forms and techniques within media based arts practice and places a particular emphasis on encouraging young and emerging artists to interact with established artists. Electrofringe takes place over 5 days and nights around the September/October change-over in the regional centre of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

[edit] New Zealand

Version Festival, a predominantly audio art festival that incorporates performances, installation, seminars and workshops, occurring annually in December in Auckland.

Alt-Music, a 10-day festival of experimental audio performance organised by Artspace that takes place annually in Auckland.