{{Unsourced, date=February 2021ArtFutura is an annual festival of

digital culture Internet culture is a culture based on the many way people have used computer networks and their use for communication, entertainment, business, and recreation. Some features of Internet culture include online communities, gaming, and social media ...

. It was first staged in Barcelona in 1990. Other sites have included

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

, Ibiza, London, and

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. 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 The Future Arrives Early

Main venue and CircuitoFutura

ArtFutura contains conferences,

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, exhibitions, live shows and an

audiovisual Audiovisual (AV) is electronic media possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, corporate conferencing, church services, and live theater productions. Audiovisual service prov ...

program which includes the latest novelties in digital creativity. Much of the ArtFutura content is developed in Barcelona and

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

although connections by means of

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are established with other cities in which the festival is held. Among the cities in which ArtFutura is presented are included Buenos Aires,

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, Granada, Lisbon, London, Madrid,

México DF Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

, Montevideo,

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, Paris,

Punta del Este Punta del Este () is a seaside city and peninsula on the Atlantic Coast in the Maldonado Department of southeastern Uruguay. Starting as a small town, Punta del Este later became internationally known as a resort for the Latin and North American j ...

, São Paulo,

Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, Torino, Tenerife, Vigo and

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Souls&Machines

GaleriaFutura is the division of ArtFutura destined to the exhibitions of

digital art Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960s, various names ...

. 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 The ''Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía'' ("Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen Sofía. It ...

, Madrid, Spain and curated by Montxo Algora and José Luis de Vicente. It included the works of Paul Friedlander, Sachiko Kodama,

Theo Jansen Theodorus Gerardus Jozef Jansen (; born 14 March 1948) is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own and, collectively, are titled ''Strandbeest''. The kinetic sculptures appear to ...

, Daniel Rozin, Chico McMurtrie, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Daniel Canogar, Evru, David Byrne, David Hanson, Vuk Ćosić,

Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. Education Pierre Huyghe (pronounced ''hweeg'') was born in Paris in 1962. He lives ...

, Harun Farocki,

Muntadas Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) is a postconceptual multimedia artist, who resides in New York since 1971. His work often addresses social, political and communications issues through different media: such as photography, video, text and image ...

, Ben Rubin, Mark Hansen,

Antoni Abad Antoni Abad i Roses (born 1956 in Lleida) is a Spanish artist. He began his career as a sculptor, and evolved over time towards video art and later in net.art and other forms of new media. Biography Abad was born in 1956 in Lleida, Spain. 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

ArtFutura website

El País (in Spanish)

ArtFutura Catalogs
* Video - Souls&Machines at TVE
Video - Souls&Machines

Exhibition Catalog - Reina Sofía Museum
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