International Digital Festivals Guide
French / english
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Festivals at the heart of digital creation
For the sixth edition of this guide, we have chosen to feature on the front cover an enigmatic character encountered from festival to festival, riding his fluorescent scooter through the night. Who is this Blue Rider? Where does he come from? Where is he going? We met him at Elektra in Montreal and Mapping in Geneva. He leaves a luminous, poetic trail behind as an invitation for discovery.
What if digital arts reinvented the city? This question is the guiding thread of the new Bains Numériques festival spanning through the city of Enghien. Each festival is an opportunity to re-enchant the public space, offering creative wanderings through installations, exhibitions, performances... at the level of a city, a neighbourhood or a village.
Once again this guide provides an international overview of digital festivals that reflects their dynamism and diversity. Despite a particularly difficult economic context, festival directors continue to commit themselves alongside artists. They are often the only ones to support digital cultures and make them accessible to a broad audience, as the digital art market is just emerging and these works are still scarcely displayed in museums or purchased by institutions. New collaborations are being set up between different venues or festivals to co-produce or co-diffuse these art-forms and so we would like to greet these initiatives. Networks are being built such as RAN (digital arts network) or the European Lab for festivals, part of the Nuits Sonores in Lyon. A European programme will also enable the Panorama 14 exhibition, le Fresnoy's annual event dedicated to creation, to travel to Belgium, Lithuania and Spain. We have chosen to focus on (A/V) audiovisual festivals through several reports overviewing new trends* such as Live Cinema, Live A/V, Mapping, as much as new writing, experimental short films, animated films, webdocs…
There again, festivals are essential distribution channels for these new formats. Electronic music, digital arts, digital cultures, please follow the guide…
* Live A/V, special issue of MCD # 04: we previously published a thematic issue comprising 52 portraits of international artists from the Live A/V scene, available in digital format on www.digitalmcd.com
ANNE-CÉCILE WORMS
CONTENTS
03_ EDITORIAL
05_ CONTENTS
06_ GEOGRAPHIC INDEX
09_ FESTIVALS AUDIO-VISUELS (A/V)
10_ ELEKTRA
12_ NÉMO
14_ PANORAMA
16_ MAPPING FESTIVAL
18_ SRTP FESTIVAL
20_ BANDITS-MAGES
22_ FESTIVAL DU COURT MÉTRAGE À CLERMONT-FERRAND
24_ VIDÉOFORMES
26_ FÊTE DE L'ANIM
28_ FIPA 2012 32_ A/V INDEX
35_ PARIS REGION FRANCE GUIDE
40_ INTERVIEW / BAINS NUMÉRIQUES
42_ FEEDBACK / PRÉSENCES "ÉLECTRONIQUE" PARIS
44_ FEEDBACK / EXIT
47_ AGENDA CENTER FRANCE GUIDE
50_ FEEDBACK / ELECTROCHOC
52_ FEEDBACK / OUDEIS
54_ AGENDA NORTH-EAST FRANCE GUIDE
56_ FEEDBACK / HADRA TRANCE FESTIVAL
59_ AGENDA WEST FRANCE GUIDE
62_ FEEDBACK / SCOPITONE
64_ FEEDBACK / ASTROPOLIS
66_ AGENDA MEDITERRANEAN REGION FRANCE GUIDE
70_ FEEDBACK / GAMERZ
73_ AGENDA SOUTH-WEST FRANCE GUIDE
76_ FEEDBACK / BOUILLANTS
78_ FEEDBACK / NUITS SONORES
81_ AGENDA EUROPEAN GUIDE
96_ FEEDBACK / ELECTRON
98_ FEEDBACK / PRÉSENCES "ÉLECTRONIQUE" GENÈVE
100_ AGENDA INTERNATIONAL GUIDE
106_ CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
108_ ALPHABETICAL INDEX
MCD’S co-editor Digital Art International
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Région Île-de-France
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
