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Articles
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> ZKM, Transmediale, Ikeda and Bartholl

> The Gaîté Lyrique - a year already

> TodaysArt, Almost Cinema and STRP

> The Ars Electronica Festival in Linz

> 54th Venice Biennial

> Elektra, Montreal, 2011

> Pixelache, Helsinki, 2011

> Transmediale, Berlin, 2011

> The STRP festival of Eindhoven

> Ars Electronica repairs the world

> Festivals in the Île-de-France

> Trends in Art Today

> Emerging artistic practices

> The Angel of History

> The Lyon Biennial

> Ars Electronica, Human Nature

> The Venice Biennial

> Nemo & Co

> From Karlsruhe to Berlin

> Media Art in London

> Youniverse, the Seville Biennial

> Ars Electronica, a new cultural economy

> Social Networks and Sonic Practices

> Skin, Media and Interfaces

> Sparks, Pixels and Festivals

> Digital Art in Belgium

> Image Territories, The Fresnoy

> Ars Electronica, goodbye privacy

> Digital Art in Montreal


Links
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> Ars Electronica Festival [ Linz ]

> Ars Longa [ Paris ]

> Art outsiders Festival [ Paris ]

> AV Festival [ Newcastle ]

> C3 [ Budapest ]

> Cimatics Festival [ Brussels ]

> Citu [ Paris ]

> City Sonics Festival [ Mons ]

> Digicult [ Milan ]

> Deaf Festival [ Rotterdam ]

> Fact [ Liverpool ]

> Film Festival [ Rotterdam ]

> Futuresonic Festival [ Manchester ]

> Gaîté lyrique [ Paris ]

> ICA [ London ]

> Imal [ Brussels ]

> Laboral [ Gijon ]

> Le Cube [ Issy-les-Moulineaux ]

> Le Fresnoy [ Tourcoing ]

> Locus Sonus [ Aix-en-Povence ]

> Mediaruimte [ Brussels ]

> Musiques & Cultures Digitales [ Paris ]

> Nemo Festival [ Paris ]

> PixelAche Festival [ Helsinki ]

> Seconde Nature Festival [ Aix-en-Provence ]

> Sonar Festival [ Barcelona ]

> Space [ London ]

> Strp [ Eindhoven ]

> Tesla [ Berlin ]

> The Arts Catalyst [ London ]

> TodaysArt [ The Hague ]

> Transmediale Festival [ Berlin ]

> Upgrade! International

> V2 Institute [ Rotterdam ]

> We Make Money, not Art

> Zkm [ Karlsruhe ]


About the Author
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> Dominique Moulon, born in 1962, studied visual art at the National Art School of Bourges and holds a Master's Degree in aesthetics, science and technology from the University of Paris 8. He is an expert in digital cultures and a media art critic; he is also the founder of MediaArtDesign.net and collaborates regularly with Images Magazine, Digital MCD and Digitalarti. He teaches digital creation at ECV and EPSAA, and has been a regular guest professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also gives regular lectures and workshops at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, Le Fresnoy and Sciences Po. His book on contemporary art and new media was published by Nouvelles Editions Scala in 2011.
ZKM, TRANSMEDIALE, IKEDA AND BARTHOLL
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db
At ZKM in Karlsruhe, the exhibition "The Global Contemporary" recently analysed the effects of globalisation on the world of art while that of the Media Museum, entitled "Digital Art Works", addressed the conservation of digital works. The Transmediale Festival in Berlin meanwhile just celebrated its twenty-fifth year of existence with the exhibition "in/compatible". Last but not least, Bartholl exhibited at the Dam Gallery and Ryoji Ikeda at the Hamburger Bahnhof.

[ Ryoji Ikeda, "db", 2012, source Uwe Walter,
courtesy Freunde Guter Musik Berlin ]
THE GAITE LYRIQUE - A YEAR ALREADY
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Apostasis
We dreamed of it and then waited for it to happen until finally, it opened its doors, as proud in its past history as it was in its renovation. The Gaité Lyrique is now a year old. And yet, it now seems like it was always there, right in the centre of Paris "exploring digital cultures in all their forms". It has also now been comforted by the success of its visits. Lets take a glance at some of the highlights of an eventful year.oruit Theatre in Ghent and the Eindhoven Strijp quarter.

[ Rafael Lozano-Hemmer,
"Apostasis", 2008,
source Maxime Dufour ]
TODAYSART, ALMOST CINEMA AND STRP
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Piano MigrationsPiano Migrations
This year, the TodaysArt of The Hague and Cimatics of Brussels festivals fused and so last September, TodaysArt Brussels set itself up in several places around the city. The Almost Cinema and STRP festivals on the other hand, which took place respectively in October and November, remained in their regular spots: the Vooruit Theatre in Ghent and the Eindhoven Strijp quarter.

[ Kathy Hinde,
"Piano Migrations",
2008-2010 ]
THE ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL IN LINZ
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May the Horse Live in Me
The oldest of digital festivals has returned to its preferred sites at the Ars Electronica Center, the Brucknerhaus, the Lentos and OK Centrum (where another exhibition was being held, the Hohenrausch) after a very brief turn at the Tabakfabrik. Meanwhile, the symposium for this 2011 edition, entitled Origin, was organised in collaboration with the CERN.

[ Art Orienté Objet,
"May the Horse Live in Me",
2011, Source Miha Fras ]
54TH VENICE BIENNIAL
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Chance
Going to the Venice Biennial implicitly means accepting that you will miss artworks, as there are so many national exhibitions and collateral events. So, one must make choices, without omitting the Arsenal and the ILLUMInazioni exhibition organised by Brice Curiger, the artistic director of this 54th edition. There are also historic pavilions in the gardens and a multitude of museums, palaces and churches that further induce one to lose oneself in Venice.

Christian Boltanski,
"Chance", 2011
ELEKTRA, MONTREAL, 2011
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EXP
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.

Frank Bretschneider, "EXP", 2009,
Source Camil Scorteanu.
PIXELACHE, HELSINKI, 2011
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Artificial Smile
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.

Andreas Schmelas & Stefan Stubbe
"Artificial Smile", 2009-2010.
TRANSMEDIALE, BERLIN, 2011
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Face Visualizer
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.

Daito Manabe & Ei Wada "Face Visualizer",
2008. Source Jonathan Gröger.
THE STRP FESTIVAL OF EINDHOVEN
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Boreas
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.

Lawrence Malstaf, "Boreas", 2007,
Courtesy Fortlaan 17 Gallery.
Ars Electronica repairs the world
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Chapter I : The Discovery
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.

Félix Luque Sánchez,
"Chapter I : The Discovery", 2009.
FESTIVALS IN THE ILE-DE-FRANCE
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The Martian Rose
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.

[ Howard Boland and Laura Cinti,
"The Martian Rose", 2007-2009. ]