List of new media art festivals

Europe

UK

AV Festival. UK's largest electronic arts festival, featuring exhibitions, film, music and newly commissioned works. It is bi-annual and based in the three main urban centres of the North East of England, NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.

onedotzero. World's largest digital film festival that encompasses many new media projects, international events, commissioned and produced works. Based in London, with venue home at the [ICA].

Lovebytes. Sheffield-based experimental digital arts and media festival.

Optronica. International VJ festival and screenings at London's NFT.

Ocean Pixel. Digital Art Festival based in Southampton, featuring international digital artists.

Futuresonic. Futuresonic is an annual festival of art, music and ideas. It involves a freeform mix of live events, exhibitions, workshops and talks in up to 30 different venues and spaces across Manchester UK. Futuresonic was established in 1995, with the first major festival was in September 1996, and has since presented projects in Asia, Africa, N America, S America and Europe.

SightSonic. York international festival of digital arts.

Radiator Festival. East Midlands' international festival for art and digital culture. Run by Trampoline, the Radiator Festival and Symposium look at how artists are responding to the ways that new technologies are changing society.

Iceland

The SEQUENCES real-time art festival is held in the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik. Its emphasis is time-based work, performance, sound art, video and music. The aim of the annual independent art festival is to celebrate and exhibit cutting-edge visual art with a special emphasis on art in public/urban spaces.

Austria

Prix Ars Electronica (Official website) is the largest international New Media festival. It's held in Linz annually.

Coded Cultures (Official Website) is a Media Arts and digital culture Festival. It is held in Vienna, Austria and produced by the Art Group 5uper.net

Spain

PING! Festival. Digital Art Festival based in Andratx (Majorca)

Switzerland

Netlabelfestival. Netlabelfestival Zurich

Tweakfest.ch. Digital Lifestyle and Media Cultures Festival in Zurich

Shiftfestival.ch. Electronic Arts Festival Basel

Digitalartweeks.ethz.ch. Digital Art Weeks Zurich

Czech Republic

Brno Zoom Czech new media festival - Digital Culture Showcase.

ENTER - Digital Art / Science / Technology Festival, Prague.

France

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid (International Meetings) takes place in Paris, Berlin and Madrid. The festival presents every year in the three cities a program with 250 films, videos and multimedia works from 75 countries. 2007's festival in Paris took place at the Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume National Museum, and the Palais de Tokyo. 2008's festival in Madrid took place at the Reina Sofia National Museum and the Filmoteca Espagnola. 2008's festival in Berlin took place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Make Art takes place in Poitiers, this one week event is dedicated to free software and art.

VisionSonic Festival is dedicated to A/V performances since 2008. It is organised by Les PIXELS TRANSVERSAUX, V-ATAK and Centre Madeleine Rebérioux. Artistic direction by Yroyto & Rko.

Germany

transmediale - festival for art and digital culture berlin

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL - international media art festival in Osnabrück

Italy

LPM - Live Performers Meeting live video performers, visual artists and vj meeting

Sweden

NEW MEDIA MEETING is an annual international media & art festival taking place in Norrköping, Sweden. The festival premiered in 2006 and is devoted to innovative works and projects in electronic art, media, music and visualization.

Norway

Matchmaking Trondheim Matchmaking festival for new technology and electronic arts

Piksel - dedicated to Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) audiovisual software and art. Takes place in Bergen.

The Netherlands

STRP Festival - STRP is an international art & technology festival, presented in the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven

Amsterdam Film eXperience - AFX is an international festival for (short) film, new media and cross-over in Amsterdam

DEAF - Dutch Electronic Art Festival is a biannual international festival for electronic art, presented by V2, Institute for the Unstable Media, in Rotterdam.

GOGBOT - GOGBOT is an annual international festival for new media art, presented by PLANETART in Enschede.

Streaming Festival - Streaming Festival is an annual international festival for audio visual art in The Hague.

Impakt Fesival - Impakt Festival for audiovisual arts in Utrecht

Slovakia

Multiplace - new media culture festival which lacks the central organization, it is rather a collective effort of various organizers and associations responsible for the projects at different locations in Slovakia, Czech republic and others.

Poland

WRO - WRO International Media Art Biennale presents directions of development and changes in contemporary art created with the use of contemporary communication tools, including video art, computer animation, interactive art, art CD-ROMs, performances, net art, concerts, multimedia spectacles and other artistic net projects.

Greece

medi@terra festival - medi@terra festival: Media Art Festival, Athens

synch festival - synch festival: electronic art, media &music festival, Athens

Video Art Festival Miden - Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata

Athens Video Art Festival - Athens Video Art Festival, Athens

Platforma Video - Platforma Video: Digital Cinema and Video, Athens

Turkey

a-m-b-e_r'07 - a-m-b-e_r is an Istanbul based initiative that aims to explore artistic forms of expression at the conjunction of the body and the digital process. It was founded in 2007 as an association by a team of researchers and artists from disciplines such as dance, performance, design, social sciences and engineering. The founders of amber came together in order to create a local discussion and production platform in a Globalized World itself transformed by new technologies.

Latin America

México

TRANSITIO Festival Internacional de artes electronicas y video (Official Website)

Circuito Electrovisiones // encuentro de arte digital (Official Website)

Brazil

FILE - Electronic Language International Festival (Official website) is a festival of new media art organized yearly since 2000 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Peru

Festival Internacional de Video/Arte/Electrónica. Festival of video and electronic arts.

Argentina

Tratado de Integración - TDI ([1]) is the only new media art placed in Patagonia Argentina, since 2007, during the summer in Neuquén city.

North America

Canada

Images Festival is the largest Canadian festival for new media and installation arts.

New Forms Festival multi-disciplinary arts festival featuring Canadian and international artists.

Interactive Futures a forum for showing recent tendencies in new media art as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology.

Elektra Festivalis a week long festival that shows electronic work in Montreal, Quebec.

United States

Motion Graphics Festival, touring New Media festival exhibiting in 3 cities in 2008 and 5 cities in 2009. Festival specializes in sound and motion design within new media.

Freewaves, The LA Freewaves experimental new media art festival is online and in Los Angeles art venues featuring local and international artists.

IMCexpo, The Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo (IMCexpo) is a new media art show & trade show in New York City (2005 IMCexpo held at the Chelsea Art Museum)

New Media Summit, New Media focused festival in Chicago, boasting large audiences and talented speakers.

Texelectronica, International New Media Art Symposium & Exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in Ft. Worth, Texas, and in association with galleries in Dallas such as "The And/Or Gallery,". Texelectronica invites established artists working with emergent digital and electronic media to speak, serve on panels, and exhibit their works.

Asia

China

E-Arts Shanghai is an annual international new media art festival.

Thailand

Thailand New Media Art Festival (MAF) is an annual international festival involving more than 200 artists. No entry fee.

Hong Kong

Microwave International New Media Arts Festival is an annual, international multi-media art festival.Microwave

Clockenflap is Hong Kong's largest annual multimedia arts festival

Oceania

Australia

Electrofringe (Official website) is a festival of digital, electronic and new media arts. Its focus is on emergent forms and techniques within media based arts practice and places a particular emphasis on encouraging young and emerging artists to interact with established artists. Electrofringe takes place over 5 days and nights around the September/October change-over in the regional centre of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

New Zealand

Version Festival, a predominantly audio art festival that incorporates performances, installation, seminars and workshops, occurring annually in December in Auckland.

Alt-Music, a 10-day festival of experimental audio performance organised by Artspace that takes place annually in Auckland.

External links

List of media art festivals on Monoskop