Art

Picnic 08

PICNIC is Amsterdam's leading annual international event, highlighting creativity and innovation, particularly in media, entertainment and technology. PICNIC brings together and disseminates the ideas and knowledge of the world's best creators and innovators... READ MORE...

Bit Bang Festival

Bit Bang festival, due giorni dedicati ai new media con incontri, installazioni, performance musicali e un party finale. Un appuntamento unico, ad ingresso gratuito, in programma il 18 e 19 luglio nella suggestiva cornice del Museo Stibbert che per la prima volta apre i suoi spazi ad un’iniziativa esterna.... READ MORE...

Isea 2008

ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art initiated in 1988, is the world's premier media arts event for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in interactive and digital media.... READ MORE...

Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008

During the summer of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the National Art Museum of China will present SYNTHETIC TIMES - Media Art China 2008 in its current location at the center of Beijing . NAMOC is the only national art museum in China that is dedicated to the research, presentation and promotion of modern and contemporary arts.... READ MORE...

How To Talk to Images

For How to Talk to Images at London's HTTP Gallery, Richard Wright has compiled a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks, which explore new conceptions of the image, called for by the sheer quantity of visual information now available via the Internet.... READ MORE...

Cronosfera Festival

CronoSfera Festival intende affacciarsi sull’ immaginario contemporaneo e sulle percezioni del Futuro, sul piano dell’espressione artistica, attraverso un concorso video e mostre di arte contemporanea; sul piano scientifico, attraverso tavole rotonde gestite da giovani ricercatori e divulgatori scientifici... READ MORE...

Sonar 2008: Advanced Music & Cinema Beyond

The presence of Spain at S˜nar 2008 is very important, with a third of the music schedule presenting more than ninety artists including composers, DJs and producers. At the centre of the festival there is also a tribute to the creative advertising communication on the Internet, from the fake to the self-promotion through MySpace. Starting from the coordinate image of S˜nar 2008, conceived at first as a series of short amateur videos in which strange genetic experiments are filmed, in a mysterious place, by mixing animals and talking human heads; the anonymous broadcast of the videos on YouTube and through a false website caused an incredible response with hundreds of thousands of hits in few hours.... READ MORE...