FESTIVALS, ART CENTERS

 incite/ live @ Pluto Festival World Premiere of new live-set "holistic glue"   Sat. October 27th Pluto Festival Opwijk, Belgium (close to Brussels) @ Nijdrop - doors 20:00, incite/ on stage at midnight   We're looking forward to the performances of Videojack, Pleq, Hecq, Architect and many more!!   http://pluto-festival.be/#home  ...

The first International Digital Arts Biennial began in April 2012 in various locations around Montreal including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Contemporary Art Museum, the DHC and the SAT. Alain Thibault, its founder, is also the artistic director of the Elektra Festival and the instigator of the International Digital Art Market. In May, the Syncretic Transcodings symposium organised by Hexagram CIAM was added to the events taking place in Montreal. Here is a review of some of the highlights.&n...

Dears, here's my 6-monthly mailout. It includes a selection of what happened recently and what's coming up in the next months. http://marcodonnarumma.com/next/sept2012/ You'll find more info about: New Xth Sense project finalist at European Competition for Live Electronic Music Music for Flesh II, biophysical music at ISEA, New Mexico, US Biotechnological Performance Practice, a new publication out now Upcoming sonic body concerts in UK, Slovenia, Ireland, Hungary, an...

 X Media Lab, taking place in Basel from September 14th to 16th, creates a meeting place to assist companies and people in getting their own creative ideas successfully to market, through concept development, business matching, and direct access to world-class networks of creative professionals. Through conference & workshops, creative people can meet international experts on "participative culture" thema.    Malo Girod de l'Ain, co-founder of Digitalarti, will ...

 Art. Street. Tech.  September 14, 2012, 6pm to midnight. Mark your calendars for (e)MERGE, a street festival focused specifically on showcasing work by emerging artists! The street festival will cover three city blocks of the SoFA District along S. 1st Street between San Carlos and Reed Streets in downtown San Jose, and selectedworks will remain throughout the weekend.  (e)MERGE will feature a selection of artists from 9 different California university programs, with wildly im...

Le Fresnoy, or the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, is structured around a school directed by an artist, Alain Fleischer, who invites others to train still others. This year, the curator of the exhibition, Benjamin Weil, whose international experience is well known, took up the challenge of revealing a common meaning in more than fifty artistic proposals ranging from performance to film through installations and apparatus. Warding off bad luck It is said of ships that, “if they ha...

STROLLING THROUGH NEW YORK CITY’S DIGITAL ARTS In the digital age, everything is fusion: art and media, technology and gaming, experiences and spaces, installations and urban architecture. Take a digitally artistic, historical and geographical stroll through New York City to see the sparks. (All the places are located on a map at the end of the article) Let’s start from the beginning of the history of “technological arts”: the moving image. Established in Queens in ...