Electronic Language International Festival

FILE - Electronic Language International Festival is a new media art festival held yearly in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2000 and with iterations being held eventually in other cities through the world. New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of Digital, Computerized or Networked information and communication technologies It is the biggest art & technology festival in Brazil, and it serves as a lead indicator of the plurality of the work created in the interactive art field not only nationally but also internationally.

FILE is organized by a non-profit group whose purpose is to disseminate and to develop culture, arts, technology and scientific research. Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate" generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic The arts is a broad subdivision of Culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt Admittance to the event is free.

The FILE festival is split in different areas of interest, although some overlap and sub-categorization occurs. The main groups of interest are:

FILE Media Art takes takes the main space where works are shown, specially by way of interactive installations, interactive films, Electronic art, game art, and other subcategories. Installation art uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way a particular space is experienced Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of Electronic media or more broadly refers to Technology and/or Electronic media

FILE Hipersonica explores the role of music in a technological culture with audio and visual performances.

FILE Symposium is a collection of lectures by leading artists and technologists on the new media art field.
FILE Archive is a collection of works. It has now more than 2000 in several supports of digital media such as cd-rom, zips, diskettes, and video tape, texts and catalogues.

FILE-Labo is a media lab, its mission is the development, research and experimentation of multidisciplinary works in the fields of new media.

References

Centro Cultural FIESP - FILE 2007

External links

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