List of new media art festivals

• The CYFEST is one of the largest international media art festivals, that was founded in St. Petersburg in 2007 by independent artists and curators. Over the years, the festival has invited artists from Russia, USA, Germany, Japan, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Finland, Italy, the Philippines and other countries.[1] The most recent festivals were:
  • 10th CYFEST in Bogota, Colombia (27-30 October 2016) [2]
  • 10th CYFEST in Moscow (16 November 2016 and July, 2017) [3]
  • 10th CYFEST in New York (1-30 December 2016) [4]
  • 10th CYFEST in Saint-Petersburg (25 January – 7 February 2017) [5]
• FEAT is a European funded project, in which artists are in residence within FET - Future and Emerging Technologies - research consortia with the goal of exploring unconventional ways of thinking, researching, innovating and creating.[6]
• The ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art is an annual event consisting of a symposium on issues related to electronic art and an exhibition in a festival format. Each year, the symposium is hosted by a different organization and country.[7] The most recent festivals were:
  • ISEA2018 in Durban, South Africa[8]
  • ISEA2017 in Manizales, Colombia[9]
  • ISEA2016 in Hong Kong,[10]
  • ISEA2015 in Vancouver,[11]
  • ISEA2014 in Dubai,[12]
  • ISEA2013 in Sydney.[13]
• MUTEK was founded in 2000 in Montreal, and ever since its main mission has been the organization of the MUTEK festival; which takes place every year at Mexico, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Dubai, San Francisco and Tokyo. The festival gives an opportunity for local and international audience to see the latest digital creations, as well as works by emerging and established artists.[14]
• netEX – networked experience - was established by The New Museum of Networked Art as the service environment for calls & deadlines in order to support & promote art using new technologies. netEX is accepting calls for film, video and art & new media – new technologies, residencies, participation in conferences, symposium and other events in these fields.[15]
• Spamm is a virtual online museum dedicated to digital arts and emerging cultures. Spamm connects emerging and established curators, artists, and institutions to forge international networks and generate new forms of collaboration through the production of exhibitions, events, publications, and curatorial training.[16]
• The Wrong is the largest and most comprehensive biennial celebrating digital art today. A global event aiming to nurture digital culture, open to participation, articulating its contents by means of online pavilions and offline embassy locations worldwide.[17]

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Ethiopia

• ADDIS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL is an annual video art festival in Addis Ababa.[18]

China (mainland)

• Beijing 798 Art Festival brings together contemporary art, architecture, and culture with a historically interesting location and an urban lifestyle. It has evolved into a cultural concept, of interest to experts and normal folk alike, influential on its concepts of both urban culture and living space.[19]

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• China International Gallery Exposition was an annual art exhibition that showcased modern art and design.[20]

Hong Kong

• Clockenflap is an annual multimedia arts festival in Hong Kong.[21]
• Microwave International New Media Arts Festival is an annual international media art festival.[22]

Israel

• Print Screen Festival is an annual film and new media art festival initiated in 2010 and taking place in the Holon Cinematheque.[23]

Japan

• Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs since 1997.[24]

Taiwan

• Digital Art Festival Taipei is an annual festival held by Digital Art Centre(Taipei) since 2006.[25]

Austria

• Ars Electronica is the largest international New Media festival which is held in Linz annually. The focus is always on current developments and possible future scenarios and the question of how they will change our lives. Ars Electronica is a worldwide unique platform for art, technology and society.[26]
• Art Meets Radical Openness is a biennial community festival in Linz run by local initiative servus.at that explores and discusses new challenges between digital culture, art, everyday life, education, politics and active action.[27]
• LINZ FMR is a biennial festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces. The first edition took place in Linz at the end of March 2019.[28]
• Paraflows festival for digital art and culture held in September, focuses on the controversial topics such as identification, resistance and migration in times of the digital revolution. The festival includes exhibitions, symposiums, a series of concerts, film, theatre, and book and award presentations.[29]
• Wiener FestWochen is positioned as a multidisciplinary art festival in the city of Vienna. Among Vienna's varied and tightly-packed cultural offerings, the point is to present and allow things not yet seen and not yet heard and to work as a content engine linking genres, thoughts, and ideas.[30]

Belgium

• Courtisane Festival is a platform for film and audiovisual arts, exploring the relationships between image and world, aesthetic and politics, experiment and engagement. Between the image of reality and the reality of the image.[31]
• Kikk Festival in Namur offers a mix of technology, visual arts, music, architecture, design and interactive media. The program includes conferences, workshops, an exhibition, a market and a party with live performances. Initiated in 2011 by Dogstudio and Superbe.[32]
• New Technological Art Award selects and presents creations in which the culture-forming role of technology occupies a central place. Low or high tech, intuitive or experimental, the creations always draw attention to the truly innovative trends. The exhibition of the achievements of the selected winners is a compass oriented in the relevant contemporary and flexible use of technology in the art sector.[33]
• Transnumeriques Biennale initiated in 2005 by Transcultures is the first international festival of new media art in Wallonia-Brussels Federation (previously Netd@ys.)[34]
• VIA Festival is an international festival focused on the performing art and new technologies: theatrical performances, music and dance, urban installations and exhibitions. It is produced by the Manège Mons/Maubeuge.[35]

Bulgaria

• Computer Space forum is a non-commercial international computer art forum. With twenty nine editions in a row behind its back and more than 20,000 participants (firms, studios or individual persons) from different countries from all over the world, today "Computer Space" is one of the biggest and most significant events for computer arts in south-east Europe which seeks to show the modern trends in the field of computer arts.[36]

Croatia

• Kontejner bureau of contemporary art praxis is a non-profit NGO from Zagreb founded in 2002. It is engaged in curatorial work, organization of art festivals and other public events, and in education and social theory. Its main field of interest is progressive contemporary art which investigates the role and meaning of science, technology and the body in our society, focusing on the relevant and current phenomena, especially within provocative, fascinating and intriguing subjects and topics, as well as those perceived by the society as taboos.[37]
• Visualia, the very first festival of light and new media in Croatia, was organized by the Association Sonitus and the Tourism Office Pula, in order to encourage artistic activity and creative new media production within contemporary art and culture at the local, national and international level.[38]
• Echofluxx is a festival of new media, visual art, and experimental music produced by FMErá of Prague. Echofluxx is rooted in the mindfulness of cage, the interplay of risk-taking and self actualization, and a resistance to media specificity in art.[39]

Denmark

• CLICK Festival looks into the future and dissolves the boundaries between art and technology. The program is filled with music, performances, installations, workshops, seminars, lectures and literature.[40]
• FOKUS presents 5-6 Danish and international exhibitions every year, exhibitions that give visitors the opportunity to encounter experimental and innovative art - including its annual exhibition for children and young people.[41]

Finland

• Alternative Party promotes experimentation and psychological change through digital arts, utilizing the demoscene mindset of breaking boundaries, mixing machinery of different eras and capabilities.[42]
• M-cult a Helsinki-based non-profit organization founded in 2000, works to develop and promote new forms of media art and digital culture, with a focus on cultural and social aspects of digital media and technology.[43]
• Pixelache Helsinki is an association of artists, cultural producers, thinkers and activists involved in the creation of cutting-edge cultural activities; such as experimental interaction and electronics, code-based art and culture, grassroot organising & networks, renewable energy production/use, participatory art, open-source cultures, bioarts and art-science culture, alternative economy cultures, politics and economics of media/technology, audiovisual culture, media literacy & ecology and engaging environmental issues.[44]

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• Avanto was an experimental music and moving images festival.[45]

France

• Festival Les Instants Vidéo is one of the oldest international video art festival in the world. Based in Marseilles, it is a festival representative of the large diversity of video and digital creations, including screenings, exhibitions of installations, performances which showcase combinations of dance, music, and poetry.[46]
• La Biennale de Lyonis is a non-profit body that devises, produces and stages two major international events in alternate years: the Dance Biennale and the Biennale of Contemporary Art. It manages the events’ support functions, promotion and development, and spreads their values.[47]
• Outsider Art Fair was established in 1993 and now is the premier fair dedicated to Self-Taught Art, Art Brut and Outsider Art and takes place annually in New York and Paris.[48]
• Strasbourg Biennale of Contemporary Art is a cultural event that brings together internationally renowned artists every two years to examine the central and contemporary theme of human's place in the digital age.[49]

Germany

• Clusterduck is an interdisciplinary collective working at the crossroads of research, activism, design and filmmaking, focusing on the processes and actors behind the creation of Internet related content. Their main goal at the moment is the development of a long-feature documentary about digital art and pattern recognition. We are also in the process of building an online, open-access archive of past and present forms of digital art.[50]
• Cynetart is an International competition created by Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau (TMA) and their partners. This festival is targeted for artists and artist collectives, researchers and scientists, who deal with new technologies in media in their artistic practice. It includes formats such as installation, objects, performance, net art and VR-works.[51]
• Filmwinter has been devoted to crossing the border between cinema and media art with an adventurous international programme comprising films, workshops, Expanded Media exhibition and performances for people of all ages. The Festival's core are the international competitions for short film, Media in Space and Network Culture – flanked by a comprehensive programme. Every year, the Filmwinter Stuttgart has a new motto that is reflected in the design, supporting programme and the whole aura of the festival.[52]
• Lab30 is the place for experimental analog and digital art projects. It might sound complex or complicated, but it's easy and concrete! The festival attracts visitors who want to be surprised by innovative works between arts and technique.[53]
• NODE Forum an open platform and network for culture, the arts and technology. It offers more than 60 professional creative coding workshops, exhibitions, performances, program for kids, artist talks, mentorship and discourse formats. The one-week festival offers room for a focussed interdisciplinary exchange.[54]
• Retune is a Berlin-based community platform at the intersection of Art, Design and Technology organizing the biennial Retune Festival, Studio Visits and workshops.[55]
• Transmediale is a yearly festival for art and digital culture in Berlin. It facilitates critical reflection on and interventions into processes of cultural transformation from a post-digital perspective. Since 2011, transmediale's all-year activities include cooperation projects, networking activities, the Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research, and special events.[56]
• UNPAINTED MUNICH was founded in Munich in 2013 by a group of art lovers to make digital art understandable to an interested audience. The international platform for art in the digital age, organizes exhibitions for digital artists and curators in different locations. The UNPAINTED Art store offers the opportunity to conveniently buy works of art by renowned digital artists online - prints, animations, 3D sculptures and much more.[57]
• Videoart at Midnight is an international forum fostering contemporary art, in particular film, new media art and video art. In a monthly program international artists are invited to show their work in the big cinema hall of the Kino Babylon in the Mitte neighborhood of Berlin.[58]
• VIDEONALE is a festival for video and time-based arts that takes place in Bonn every two years. Each Videonale realizes an exhibition with international artistic positions from the realms of single and multi-channel video, video installation and sculpture, performance and virtual reality. All works presented in the exhibition are selected by an international jury from the submissions to Videonale's competition.[59]
• Werkleitz is an important international presentation platform for film and media art in the new federal states. The flexible format comprises thematic cooperation, curated film programmes and exhibitions as well as presentations of stipends’ works realized within The Werkleitz-Centre for Media Art's international exchange programmes.[60]
• ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, probes new media in theory and practice, tests their potential with in-house developments, presents possible uses in exemplary form and promotes debate on the form our information society is taking. Production and research, exhibitions and events, coordination and documentation.[61]
• ZUKUNFTSVISIONEN Festival (ZuVi) has been established at the Polish-German border in the town of Görlitz. Each year, it is organised by a team of dedicated, creative and courageous volunteers. The festival has intentionally picked the issue of local vacancies as its central topic and is hence annually being held in a vacant building, to point out the potential hiding in abandoned buildings. It offers a platform for regional as well as international artists of the contemporary art scene.[62]

Greece

• Athens Digital Arts Festival is an international festival, based in Athens, which celebrates digital culture through an annual gathering bringing together a global community of artists and audiences.[63]
• Fournos, Center for the Art and the New Technologies is a research and production organization of the digital culture of the 21st century. Its objectives are education and training, festival, development of a cultural network of artists, centers, researchers, philosophers, technologists, activists.[64]
• Video Art Miden is an international festival based in Kalamata focusing on contemporary video art. Founded in 2005, it presents all genres of video art, including animation, video dance and video performance. It also organizes or co-organizes screening events and video art exhibitions in other cities of Greece and abroad.[65]
• Audiovisual Arts Festival is an international festival based in Corfu focusing on arts in digital era. Founded in 2006 by the School of Music and Audiovisual Arts of Ionian University. It presents a variety of genres of digital arts. such as Electroacoustic Music, VR arts, AI arts, interactive media arts, installations, video art, including animation, video dance and video performance. It also organizes screening events, interactive exhibitions, workshops and video art exhibitions in Greece and abroad.[66]

Italy

• Digicult is an independent project that publishes articles, essays & news online, curates and organize exhibitions, workshops, publications and public lectures while developing educational activities. It offers tools for digital publishing and communication strategies for art and culture. It partners with some of the main international institutions and festivals and is part of The Leonardo Affiliate Program.[67]
• FOTONICA, festival in Rome, focusing around the digital notions and forms of light, initiated in 2017. In 2018 the festival was a part of Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, MACRO ASILO programme, making the exhibits and events of the gallery available and open to all.[68]
• Live Cinema Festival is a new media arts festival in Rome that seeks to showcase and connect artists, creating narratives through often live digital techniques.[69]
• Live Performers Meeting is an international meeting of live-performing artists, VJs and new media artists, initiated in Rome in 2004, counting its 20th edition in 2019. LPM places special focus on the Open source.[70]
• Rome Media Art Festival is an international festival promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. The Festival has an international Scientific Committee, Tullio De Mauro as President and it is directed by Valentino Catricalà. The Festival is characterized by a laboratorial attitude: it is not only based on events and exhibitions, but also on lectures master class, conferences, workshops and laboratories for schools and universities.[71]

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• Kernel Festival was an international new media art festival and an international platform for the promotion of art, research, experimentation, youth empowerment, industry and contemporary creativity.[72]

Latvia

• RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture, is the center for new media culture, art gallery and artist collective, that initiates projects in intersection of art, science and emerging technologies. RIXC's activities include: running two art galleries, production of artworks and innovative art, science and technology projects, organising of the annual RIXC Art Science festival, exhibitions, publishing of Acoustic Space journal series.[73]

Lithuania

• Centras is an international multimedia arts and music festival organised every spring in Kaunas city in participation with video, sound and live audiovisual artists.[74]

The Netherlands

• Glow Light Arts Festival can be described as a large exhibition in the public space of Eindhoven with around 35 light artists from home and abroad. The light art projects are connected by means of a walking route. The distinctiveness of GLOW lies in the ambition that light art is created every year, with the focus on innovation and talent development. In addition to the large international light artists, GLOW makes room for innovative and unique projects from our own soil.[75]
• IMPAKT Festival presents critical and creative views on contemporary media culture and on innovative audio-visual arts in an interdisciplinary context. It examines issues around society, digital culture, and media from various angles and within a range of disciplines in the arts, academia, and technology. Its main project is the annual IMPAKT Festival, a five-day multimedia event that includes exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, panels, performances, presentations, and artist talks at locations in Utrecht.[76]
• Manifestations, titled "Will the Future Design Us?" is the largest Art & Tech festival during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. It focusses on Young Talents, Art, Tech & Fun. This quick growing festival gets 35.000 visitors in 9 days.[77]
• The Nieuwe Twentse Kunst foundation is an artists' initiative (founded in 1997 in Enschede). Since 2005, the NTK foundation is located in Almelo and focuses on the presentation of contemporary art forms. To this end, the NTK foundation undertakes short and long-term initiatives and projects such as the presentation of visual art.[78]
• Noiserr is an interdisciplinary research group centered around explorations of Noise via deconstructed reading and listening sessions. Noiserr is an on-going exploration of Noise instantiated via theory- and practice-led investigative actions.[79]
• Oddstream Festival is a platform for art and technology, stationed within the Lindenberg, Nijmegen. Oddstream organizes exhibitions, artist-in-residences, educational programs, workshops and information exchanges. Oddstream is also regularly part of the art programming at events and festivals.[80]
• Playgrounds showcases and celebrates the creative image. We stimulate new developments, signal innovative movements, we inspire an international creative industry and connect you to the best and brightest artists and animators, extraordinary filmmakers, game-, sound- and graphic designers.[81]
• Regenerative Feedback is an annual music, new media, sound art and philosophy festival. The idea behind this event is to present experimental performances; new media art, and to explore these through workshops, accessible lectures and conversations between experts and audiences.[82]
• Sensor Lab is a not-for-profit foundation based in the centre of Utrecht, the Netherlands. We are focused on the education, exploration, creation and development of sensor and smart technologies. In today's data-driven world, it is important to explore their application, possibilities and the future opportunities yet to be discovered.[83]
• Sonic Acts aims to explore the genesis of our current crisis – and what happens in the hereafter – by reflecting on the issues we are forced to confront on a daily basis: the inequalities caused by colonization and geo-strategic maneuvering, the challenges brought forth by immigration and the climate crisis, the ever-present exploitation and precocity of the workforce, and the way technological advancements disrupt and not emancipate – that is, the gooey mesh of global capitalism.[84]
• State-X New Forms is a 10-day internationally oriented festival of avant-garde rock, cutting-edge electronics and now art.[85]
• STEIM is a center for research and development of new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic music in STEIM's context is always strongly related to the physical and direct actions of a musician. In this tradition, STEIM supports artists in residence such as composers and performers, but also multimedia and video artists to develop setups which allow for improvisation and performance with individually designed technology.[86]
• STRP Biennial art and technology festival in Eindhoven. STRP links creative technology to art and life for curious people. In nearly ten years (since 2006) and six editions, STRP, which has made its home on the former Philips factory grounds, has grown into one of the most versatile indoor art & technology festivals. The highlight is the STRP Biennial held every two years, with the seventh edition taking place from 20 – 29 March 2015.[87]
• TEC ART Rotterdam is a festival for creative technology. TEC ART offers a critical platform for research and reflection and presents en reflectie en presents international highlights and local talents in creative technology and experimental art in The Netherlands.[88]
• TodaysArt Festival is an annual international festival for art, music and technology in The Hague.[89]
• Uncloud is a yearly festival that focuses on innovation and multidisciplinary artforms, blurring the boundaries between genres and disciplines as well as between spaces such as the podium, the night club and the gallery.[90]
• V2 Institute for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam. V2_ presents, produces, archives and publishes about art made with new technologies and encourages the debate on these issues. It offers a platform where artists, scientists, developers of software and hardware, researchers and theorists from various disciplines can share their findings. It is the main organizer of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, which grew out of the Manifestations for the Unstable Media that V2_ organized since 1987.[91]
• Waag Society for Old and New Media in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This institute operates on the cutting edge developments in culture and technology in relation to society, education, government and industry.[92]
• X= Festival is a 1-day festival in Utrecht. It offers a platform for artists, designers, musicians, and big companies to interact with a young generation of communication and multimedia design students and discuss the latest developments in tech, art and design. It started as a festival in the city center of Utrecht in 2015 and has since moved to a single location.[93]

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• Dutch Electronic Art Festival is an international and interdisciplinary biennial festival that focuses on art, technology and society. It presents a wide range of program segments, including a professionals conference program consisting of seminars, workshops and keynotes, and a large thematic exhibition of works of art and installations. There will also be a performance program and artist talks. The festival is characterized by a thematic approach. Its aim is to harbor new and speculative views about current developments and themes in our technological culture and society.[94]

Norway

• &ACTION INTERNATIONAL MEDIA FESTIVAL is an international festival held in Steinkje, celebrating the multimedia community. It brings together producers, directors, writers, actors, from film and television as well as from the 3D and VFX industry and game design and development industry from all over the World.[95]
• BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts,is an interdisciplinary centre for the development of art and new technology. It aims to extend the field of electronic art through collaboration, critical reflection and the sharing of knowledge.[96]
• Piksel is an international network and annual event for electronic art and technological freedom. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies.[97]

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• Article was a biennial festival for unstable art forms, arranged by i/o/lab, the Rogaland Centre for Future Art in Stavangeran, an artist-driven organization that offers expertise in art, technology and science.[98]

Poland

• INTERMEDIALE Festival of Audiovisual Forms is an international review showing different areas in audiovisual art, both in analogue and digital media. It has been taking place since 1994. Projects incorporating image and sound into audiovisual live performances and installations are presented as part of the Festival. Festival blends a wide range of possibilities for using new technologies in experimental electronics, electro-acoustic, acousmatic, integrated with image and presented in live performance forms.[99]
• Patchlab Digital Art Festival Kraków is an annual event for art based on the latest technologies and new media. It explores key phenomena in contemporary culture and art, including VR, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, the creative potential in machines, algorithms, programming, databases, hacking and digital identities.[100]

Portugal

• Culturas Cultivamos, is a platform for experimentation and development of shared knowledge in the theory and practice of science, technology and contemporary art. It organizes activities in the areas of production, dissemination, research, education and exhibition.[101]
• PLUNC was an international festival of Digital Art and New Media that presented projects and works that intersect art and technology through exhibitions, workshops, talks and round tables.[102]

Serbia

• Resonate brings together artists, designers and educators to participate in a debate on the position of technology in art and culture. Held each year in Belgrade-Serbia, the festival provides an overview of current situation in the fields of music, visual arts and digital culture.[103]

Slovenia

• Pixxelpoint is an annual computer art festival.[104]

Spain

• Artfutura festival of Digital Culture and Creativity, founded in Barcelona in 1990, explores projects and ideas in the realm of New Media, Virtual Reality, Interactive Design and Digital Animation. Alongside the festival, a program of screenings of digital animation films runs since 2002, hosted by ArtFutura in a growing number of cities in Spain and South America.[105]
• The Influencers is a festival about unconventional art, guerrilla communication and radical entertainment.[106]
• IVAHM is a yearly new media arts festival in Madrid that started in 2012. Since 2013, it has been based at museum La Neomudéjar, Centre for Avant-garde Art, where new media art also plays an important role. In 2019 the festival moves to museum Zapadores as their new location.[107]
• L.E.V. (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual) is a platform specialized in the production and promotion of electronic sound creations, and its relationship with visual arts. It was a European pioneer in this field, and since more than 12 years ago, it tries to converge the natural synergy between image and sound, and the new artistic trends, making special emphasis on live actions.[108]

Switzerland

• AIL, Artists in Labs is a coalition between AIL and the Swiss Science Laboratories, encouraging the development of art and science and realization of art and science residencies.[109]

Turkey

• Amberplatform is running as an annual festival since 2007 and is currently a broader platform that, next to the festival, organises workshops, facilitates artistic productions and collaborations, student essays and hosts a blog.[110]
• bang. Prix is Turkey’s leading platform where art, design, technology and science intersect, founded in 2015 by a team of interdisciplinary minds with backgrounds in various fields and the common desire to share their curiosities and develop beyond the scope of their fields.[111]

United Kingdom

• Art AI Festival commissions and showcases artwork that uses and demonstrates artificial intelligence, based in Leicester the UK. Launched in 2018, Art AI Festival has showcased leading international artists and is a partnership between De Montfort University's Institute of Creative Technologies, Phoenix, Hammersons Plc and independent curator, Luba Elliott.[112]
• AND Festival is one of the leading organisations in commissioning work for digital culture in the UK. Since 2009, AND has commissioned over 80 works from international and UK based artists.[113]
• Hull Time Based Arts is an artist-led organization which produces and exhibits new work and researches of time-based arts; It includes digital production facilities, consultancy and support, commissions, residencies and a rolling program of events and training opportunities.[114]
• ICI Institute of Contemporary Arts.[115]
• Onedotzero is a contemporary digital arts organisation based in London, that aims to promote new work in moving image and motion arts, through public events, artist and content development, publishing projects, education, production, creative direction, and related consultancy services.[116]
• TATE is an institution that houses, in a network of four art museums, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.[117]

Brazil

• AVXLab – Expanded Audiovisual Laboratory Festival is the main event of a cultural platform started in 2016 focused on developing residency programs that interconnects the artistic scene, to the academy, and several cultural spaces. [118]
• FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is a festival of new media art organized yearly since 2000 in São Paulo, Brazil.[119]
• FAD - Festival de Arte Digital is a festival of digital, computer and electronic arts organised since 2007 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.[120]

Chile

• Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago is an international biennial event in Santiago, produced since 1993 by Corporación Chilena de Video y Artes Electrónicas. It includes talks and exhibitions on new media art, and the Juan Downey International Contest for Creation on Audiovisual Arts.

Colombia

• Festival Internacional de la Imagen is a space for meeting and discussion on topics related to visual design, electronic arts, digital audiovisual creation, digital sound, and electro-acoustic, and in general, new relationships between art, design, and science and technology.[121]

Canada

• Elektra Festival is a week-long festival that shows electronic work in Montreal, Quebec.[122]
• FIVARS Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories is a media festival that showcases stories or narrative forms from around the world using immersive technology that includes virtual reality, augmented reality, projection mapping and specialized audio.[123]
• Images Festival is the largest Canadian festival for video and media art.[124]

México

• Festival Transitio MX a biennial festival founded in 2005, promotes and pushes production, experimentation, research, and education surrounding the relations between art, science, technology, and community processes.[125]

United States

• 01SJ Biennial distributed throughout Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area, is North America's most significant and comprehensive showcase of work at the nexus of art and technology.[126]
• Three Rivers Arts Festival is a Creative Industries festival celebrating the intersections of creativity and innovation in Pittsburgh, PA[127]
• Currents New Media Festival is an annual New Media Arts festival in Santa Fe since 2002.[128]
• Digital Graffiti is a digital and interactive art festival held in Alys Beach, Florida. Bringing together technology, architecture and art, Digital Graffiti features artists from around the world.[129]
• Gray Area Festival is a 3-day festival of media arts started in 2015 as an International media arts festival based in San Francisco with art show, daily presentations, workshops and night performances centered at the famous Grand Theater in SF Mission.[130]
• IMCexpo, The Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo's mission is to foster a growing network of diverse and forward-thinking artists, engineers, designers, scientists and institutions, with the common goal of promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation.[131]
• The LA Freewaves experimental new media art festival is online and in Los Angeles art venues featuring local and international artists.[132]
• LAST Festival (Life Art Science Technology) presented by Stanford University presents the coexistence of art, tech and science in the form of art expos featuring interactive high-tech installations that are meant to let you experience something you've never experienced before.[133]
• New Media Film Festival an annual festival held at the Los Angeles Film School honors stories worth telling offering distribution opportunities and awards.[134]
• SIGGRAPH Art Gallery is a curated art gallery exhibition that takes place during SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles.[135]
• Visual Collaborative A seasonal festivals platform that initially started as a traveling exhibition. Events and exhibitions feature symposium style talks, digital art, technology and live music performances.[136]

Australia

• Electrofringe is a festival of digital, electronic and new media arts.[137]

• Gertrude Street Projection Festival is Australia’s longest running projection art festival featuring projection, digital and new media arts. Presented annually since 2008 by Centre for Projection Art, the festival attracts audience of over 50,000 and showcases site specific projection art on Gertrude Street, Fitzroy in Melbourne, Australia. [138]

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