The oldest of digitalfestivals has returned to its preferred sites at the Ars Electronica Center,the Brucknerhaus, the Lentos and OK Centrum (where another exhibition was beingheld, the Hohenrausch) after a very brief turn at the Tabakfabrik. Meanwhile,the symposium for this 2011 edition, entitled Origin, was organised incollaboration with the CERN.Pre cinemaThere is a piece that isso quiet and fragile placed high up at the Ars Electronica Center, protectedfrom the rest of the exhibition by the ...

Going to the Venice Biennial implicitlymeans accepting that you will miss artworks, as there are so many nationalexhibitions and collateral events. So, one must make choices, without omittingthe Arsenal and the ILLUMInazioni exhibition organised by Brice Curiger, theartistic director of this 54th edition. There are also historicpavilions in the gardens and a multitude of museums, palaces and churches thatfurther induce one to lose oneself in Venice. 24 hours The Golden Lion for the...

The last edition of Elektra was mainly focused on the visualisation of sound through performances given in Usine C. A few partner exhibition spaces, like the Darling Foundry, are associated with this Montreal event. Alain Thibault, the festival’s artistic director, is also the initiator of the International Market for Digital Arts that makes it possible to discover the potential of the research laboratories grouped by Hexagram in particular.  Without any nostalgia whatsoever “Wh...

Juha Huuskonen founded Pixelache in Helsinki in 2002. Since then, a truly international network has emerged around it. The curator, Mathieu Marguerin along with Kevin Bartoli, one of the members of the RYbN group, have prepared the French version, Mal au Pixel, which will take place in Paris next June. But lets first return to the latest edition of the Finnish festival, which was held primarily on the Suomenlinna Islands in March 2011. Cartography and territories Strange shapes appea...

The Transmediale Festival focuses on the role of digital technologies in our society, while Club Transmediale is devoted to the "adventurous" music and related visual arts. This year, the Schering Foundation and the [DAM] Gallery were associated with these two events in Berlin. And we should not forget the Hamburger Bahnhof which has nothing at all to do with the Transmediale, but which presented the work of a resolutely digital artist.  Genetic Fingerprints There is an in...

The fourth edition of the STRP festival, which is devoted to bringing together music and artistic and technological practices, drew more than 30,000 visitors to its many concerts, performances, exhibitions, conferences and workshops in November 2010. As for the rather strange name for the event, it relates to the industrial site of Eindhoven that used to house the Philips brand before it revolutionised the cultural industry with its inventions.      Imprecision as a rule  Od...

The most recent edition of the Ars Elctronica Festival dedicated to art, technology and society, mainly took place in a former tobacco processing plant in Linz, the scope of which impressed all participants. Theoreticians, researchers and artists from around the world met there for a few days to participate in a think-tank, initiated once again by Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schöpf that aimed at "repairing" what is still possible to repair, starting with the environment. Continue o...

Artistic practices that are too often neglected by museums naturally make their own paths, for which festivals are essential components. There are at least a dozen dedicated to new media just within the Île-de-France region. This is a return to the year in festivals including the latest editions of Art Outsiders, Visionsonic, Atopic, Exit, Némo, Vision'R, Bains Numériques and Mal aux Pixels. Continue on http://www.newmediaart.euPicture :  Howard Boland and Laura Cinti, "The Martian Ro...

The 2000’s passed without any artistic movement whatsoever emerging. Critics were silent, gradually replaced by curators and other festival art directors. But there are however a few practices and trends that are identifiable today. Continue on http://www.newmediaart.eu ...

Abraham Moles was among the first, right at the beginning of the 1960’s, to theorise on what he was already calling computer art. Many others followed who tried to define an art confronting technology, new technology, digital media as well as networks and new media. Today we speak of “emerging artistic practices” when we try to bring together a few contemporary trends that are interesting to feature and place in relation to one another. Continue on: http://www.newmediaart.eu...

According to Benjamin Weil, the principal curator of Laboral, the Feedforward exhibition is just a “sequel” to Feedback, the inaugural exhibition of the Centre for Art and Industrial Creation in Gijon, Spain. Its organisation was entrusted to Christiane Paul, one of the curators of the Whitney Museum in New York, and to Steve Dietz, the artistic director of the Zero1 biennale of San José, California. The exhibition’s subtitle, “The Angel of History” is making a reference to an essay b...

Thierry Raspail, the artistic director of the Lyon Biennial, has entrusted this 10th edition to the curator Hou Hanru. The event regroups four sites, the Sucrière, the Mac, the Bullukian Foundation and the Bichat Warehouse where the works are organised according to chapters: “The Magic of Things”, “Celebrating the Drift”, “Living Together”, “Another World is Possible” and “Veduta”. The general theme of the year is “The Spectacle of the Everyday”. Continue on: newmediaart...

The oldest festival dedicated to art, technology and society is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary with the opening of a new Ars Electronica Center. The theme of the symposium for this 2009 edition, organised once again by Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schöpf, hinges on the notion of “Human Nature”. Continue on: http://www.newmediaart.eu...