Artfutura

ArtFutura is an annual festival of digital culture. It was first staged in Barcelona in 1990. Other sites have included Buenos Aires, Ibiza, London, and Montevideo.

ArtFutura is directed by Montxo Algora.

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
2010 We Live in Public
2011 Reviewing the Future
2012 Our Culture is Digital
2013 Feeding the Web
2014 The Digital Promise
2015 Collective Intelligence
2016 From Virtual Reality to 3D Internet
2017 Digital Creatures
2018 / 2019 Humanized Technology
2022 / 2023 Processing the Future
2024 / 2025 The Future Arrives Early

Main venue and CircuitoFutura

ArtFutura contains conferences, workshops, exhibitions, live shows and an audiovisual program which includes the latest novelties in digital creativity.

Much of the ArtFutura content is developed in Barcelona and Madrid although connections by means of video conferences are established with other cities in which the festival is held.

Among the cities in which ArtFutura is presented are included Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Granada, Lisbon, London, Madrid, México DF, Montevideo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Punta del Este, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Torino, Tenerife, Vigo and Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Souls&Machines

GaleriaFutura is the division of ArtFutura destined to the exhibitions of digital art.

One of its most important projects was the "Souls&Machines" ( Máquinas&Almas) exhibit that was presented at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain and curated by Montxo Algora and José Luis de Vicente.

It included the works of Paul Friedlander, Sachiko Kodama, Theo Jansen, Daniel Rozin, Chico McMurtrie, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Daniel Canogar, Evru, David Byrne, David Hanson, Vuk Ćosić, Pierre Huyghe, Harun Farocki, Muntadas, Ben Rubin, Mark Hansen, Antoni Abad and Natalie Jeremijenko.

Catalog

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

External links