Artfutura

ArtFutura is a festival of digital culture and creativity that is celebrated annually in Spain

Spain

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. It came about from a confluence of interests among some of the pioneers of Cyberculture

Cyberculture

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criticism of the 90s, among whom were, Rebecca Allen

Rebecca Allen

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, William Gibson

William Gibson

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and Montxo Algora, who presently continues to direct the festival.
Throughout its 20 years of existence, ArtFutura has been responsible for introducing the latest advances in digital art and design, computer animation, videogames and special effects into Spain and has invited a large number of thinkers from a diversity of disciplines to reflect on the social implications of the new technologies.
Among the guests who have visited the festival there have been names such as Rebecca Allen

Rebecca Allen

, Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling

Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.-Writings:...

, Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

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, Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada...

, David Byrne

David Byrne

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, Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold

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, Eduardo Kac

Eduardo Kac

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, Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly

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, Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle

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, Toshio Iwai

Toshio Iwai

is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design.-Education and early work:...

and Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham

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Editions

1990 Virtual Reality
1991 Cybermedia
1992 Global Mind
1993 Artificial Life
1994 Cyberculture
1995 Virtual Communities
1996 Robots & Knowbots
1997 The Future of the Future
1998 Second Skin
1999 Digital Leisure
2000 Internet as Cyborg
2001 Collective Art
2002 The Web as Canvas
2003 The Painted Word
2004 Augmented Reality
2005 Living Objects . Sensitive Spaces
2006 Data Aesthetics
2007 The Next Web
2008 Souls and Machines
2009 From Virtual Reality to Social Networks

Main venue and Circuit Futura

Every edition of ArtFutura is dedicated to a central theme and includes a diversity of activities: conferences, workshops, exhibitions, live shows and an audiovisual program which includes the latest novelties in digital animation, a series of special retrospectives and the works presented for the different ArtFutura prizes.
The festival has a main venue, which started as being Barcelona

Barcelona

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, later moved to Madrid

Madrid

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and then on to Seville

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

from where it regressed to city where it had started. A large part of the content of each edition is developed in Barcelona although connections by means of video conferences are established with other cities in which the audiovisual program is also presented. Among the cities in which ArtFutura is presented is Alicante, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cadiz, Gijon, Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Segovia, Valladolid, Vigo and Zaragoza.

Prizes

The ArtFutura Prize Show (since 1990) and the 3D in Spain Prize (since 1993) have become the most prestigious awards for animation in Spain. Since 2001, the festival convokes a new annual prize dedicated to the Creation of Videogames.

GaleriaFutura
This is the area of ArtFutura destined to exhibitions of digital art. One of its most important projects was the Souls and Machines show presented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain and curated by Montxo Algora and José Luis de Vicente.

Catalogue

For each edition of the festival, ArtFutura edits a printed catalogue which includes a selection of articles on digital art and culture.

External links

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