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Mapping Festival. A little treasure between the Swiss Alps

The 9th edition of Mapping Festival took place from 2nd to 12th May in different venues around the city of Geneva (CH). I was invited by Ana Ascencio, co-curator of the festival to attend the concluding weekend of Mapping that this year presented a whole schedule filled with live AV performances, installations, workshops, club nights, lectures, round table, and outdoor video projections.... READ MORE...

Alpha-Ville 2012. A festival of post digital culture

After three consecutive editions of Alpha-ville Festival, its producers announce the official start of a new strategic phase for the organisation. Although the annual festival has been cancelled this year due shortage of funding, the organisation will still be going ahead with a series of individual events that celebrate cutting-edge visual and music cultures.... READ MORE...

Virtuality. Aesthetic Experience and Curatorial Design

Vince Dziekan is an artist, art historian, and curator who has dedicated his research and practice to explore of the concept of “Virtuality”. Specifically, Dziekan has been working on the space (intended as exhibition space and the one where artworks can be enjoyed and experienced) and influence that new digital technologies have had on its transformation and organization.... READ MORE...

CynetArt Festival

The 15th edition of the CYNETART festival for computer-based art is very much characterised by the essence of the Festspielhaus Hellerau that opened 100 years ago. Between November 16th and 26th 2011 the building designed by Heinrich Tessenow especially for the proclaimed "Body Liberation" movement will be transformed into a space laboratory where cultural, artistic and academic as well as technological dimensions of contemporary and future body perception can be experienced. Visitors are invited to explore various experimental setups at the interface between naturalness and artificiality and thus to experience their corporeality in new and different ways.... READ MORE...

Kontraste Festival Imaginary Landscapes

The curatorial sextet responsible for programming the internationally renowned Amsterdam Sonic Acts Festival (http://www.sonicacts.com) will present cutting-edge sonic experiments, contemporary music and related art forms in thematic, historical and interdisciplinary contexts.The comprehensive festival programme explores a wide variety of fields and practices and offers unique encounters with extraordinary and unconventional concerts, performances, installations, lectures screenings and presentations.... READ MORE...

[DISK / CTM] The Icas Suite

The ICAS SUITE kicks off today at Monarch in Berlin with a program by the Todaysart Festival (Brussels & The Hague) featuring live and DJ-sets by three spearheads of Benelux electronic dance music: Conforce, Peter van Hoesen and 2562. At the same time Sperm Festival from Prague presents new Avant-pop from the Czech Republic, while Insomia! (Tromso) & Cynetart (Dresden) join forces to cook-up the Paloma with DJ-sets by Galina Hardgrove, Charlotte Bendiks, DJ JSN and Boska.... READ MORE...