Category: Events and Announcements

We are excited to be participating in the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival as a community partner this year! This means we can provide our members with discounted tickets for our partnering program, “Feature in Competition, Dream Journal 2016-2019,” playing on Saturday 3/28 @ 9:30 pm. Stay tuned for the code you can use when buying tickets online. Ticket sales for community partnership discounts go live on March 1. The discount code only applies for our program, not the festival at large. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America. The 58th…

NMC at the 2020 College Art Association Annual Conference  Chicago, February 12th – 15th NMC Affiliated Panels The Legacy of Jack Burnham on Video Game Art and Emerging New Media Thursday_ 2/13/2020, 2:00 – 3:30 pm Hilton Chicago, 8th floor Corinna Kirsch, Peter McDonald, Francesca Franco, Tiffany Funk, Charles S. Evans Practical Applications and Surrounding Conversations on Diversity and Inclusion Thursday_ 2/13/2020, 4pm – 5:30 pm Hilton Hotel, Lower Level, Salon C-2  Applying a modified SWOT Analysis, this workshop creates space to share experiences and strategies to overcome exclusionary practices. Facilitators guide participants through a group writing activity. Sharing is a means…

— “It offered a wide variety of perspectives on professional practice that couldn’t be obtained in such a short time any other way. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to expand their network and broaden their understanding of how curators do what they do.” — Course participant from USA — “It was a real eye-opener and has really developed the way I can move forward with my career from now on. As a result of the course I ran a workshop this week with various staff, across learning, curatorial, and volunteering, and we were able to discuss digital…

UNDERGROUND + ONLINE: DIGITAL ART EXHIBITION IN CHICAGO PEDWAY Chicago’s first-ever embassy for The Wrong Digital Art Biennale navigates a world of increasing speed and transition underneath the city. Fixity Equals Death is a group exhibition exploring the humanity of digital and other new media art, curated by Francisca Rudolph, Madison R. Young, and Jiaqi Zhang. Taking place both online and at the gallery Space p11, in downtown Chicago, this two-component exhibition features work by forward-thinking artists assessing the contemporary condition of digital media in relation to surrounding culture. Fixity Equals Death is part of the fourth iteration of The…

We are two young curators, Virginie Tan and Astrid Lours-Riou. We just launched an online exhibition part of the 4th edition of The Wrong Biennale (https://thewrong.org/) dedicated to digital art. The Wrong’s ambition is to promote contemporary digital art via numerous pavilions (aka online exhibitions) and embassies (aka offline exhibitions) to a wider audience. Our pavilion is called “Emotional Interfaces” and is accessible here: http://emotional-interfaces.com/ (We recommend to use a web browser to see the exhibition.) We hope you enjoy your visit and our international selection of artists. The 15 artists have been selected based on their work’s coherence with…

This year, the NEoN Digital Arts Festival (November 4-10, 2019) is very pleased to organize an expanded 3-day symposium entitled, Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology. NEoN Re@ct will involve 30 international speakers over three days addressing a diversity of issues and practices engaging activist digital art. Many artists involved in digital arts have historically been prompted to react and respond to local, national, global, social and political crises (i.e. around issues of environmentalism, gender equality, exploitation, colonialism, militarism, emancipation). Re@ct will be a platform to critically examine the relevance and impact of past and present practices, theories and strategies –…

In 2019, FILE – Electronic Language International Festival – celebrates its 20th anniversary. The festival’s main focus is to show what is innovative in art and technology, and for the last 20 years FILE’s mission has been to offer the Brazilian public the chance to experience the latest and best of electronic art. Since the 20th century, artists have sought innovative means of expression through research. From the point of view of artistic production, the interdisciplinary relationship between arts and technology has effectively transformed the creative process and the way art is shown – be it in the public’ relationship…