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Art & Tech Days is an annual festival dedicated to media arts, technology and digital culture held in Košice, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts in Slovakia. The festival invites artists, scientists, professionals and entrepreneurs to share their thoughts and knowledge on a particular topic during the festival’s programme, Art & Tech Conference, numerous workshops, networking activities and artistic programme. The festival is designed as a pilot event launched by the Creative City of Košice. It provides a space to foster discussions...
New residents have arrived in Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio in January. François Lemieux (Toronto, Canada), Constance Hinfray (Linz, Austria), Elise Eeraet (Belgium), and Madhu Das (India) will stay in the city over a period of two months. François Lemieux and Constance Hinfray were selected through a specific call targeted at artists with strong connections to one of the UNESCO Creative Cities of Media Arts. As part of the residence programme, the invited artists, as well as the selection committee formed of Japanese artists SHIMABUKU,...
Organized by the Centre des arts of Enghien-les-Bains with the support of the Ile-de-France Region, Paris Digital Images Summit (PIDS) is a key rendez-vous of visual effects and digital animation. The 5th edition will be held from January 30 to February 2 2019. The event consists of 2 days of professional conferences, January 31 and February 1, presenting the best of the world digital creation (case studies, round tables on excerpts of major film productions...) with a space reserved for decision-makers in the digital creation industry and...
On the first week of February 2019, three art events celebrating winter will be held simultaneously under the common theme of "winter art" in Sapporo, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts in Japan. These events will include Sapporo WInterChange, a new programme that begins at Sapporo Community Plaza, a general cultural facility opened in October 2018, to encourage interaction and exchange between artists, art event promotors and visitors. This programme is collaborating with the Sapporo Icicle Festival 2019, and the snow and light event Sapporo...
Semibreve festival in Braga is one of the standard-bearers of the Portuguese Creative City, which took place from 26 to 28 October. The festival presents a musical programme based on references of the electronic music but also with other disciplinary contents such as artistic installations, workshops and talks. For its seven editions, Semibreve has consistently presented a forward-thinking concept featuring some of the most revered electronic music and cross-disciplinary work by artists from around the world. Including both new and...
From 10 to 14 October, Sapporo, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts in Japan, will be hosting the 2018 edition of No Maps. Sapporo Creative Convention No Maps is an event that seeks to cross borders between media arts, music, film, education, urban development, with the aim to draw new ideas for social experiment in Sapporo and Hokkaido. The Convention targets every and all people who are actively engaged in building the society of tomorrow, through creative ideas and new technology. Several experiments, conferences, exhibitions and meet-ups...
Since 13 September until 21 October, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, together with the City of Sapporo, invite artists in the field of media arts and visual arts to take part in an open call for its winter residency program. Four selected artists will stay 60 days at the municipal facility for artist in residence from 5 January to 5 March 2019. In their encounters with culture in Sapporo as well as exchange with locals, artists will be invited to develop and explore their ideas through work based on the theme “Winter, Snow, and the Subarctic...
From 3 to 6 September, the 2018 edition of the DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival will be held in Creative City of Media Arts. The festival will offer a five-day series of events focused on digital culture, creativity and urban innovation ranging from meet-ups, conferences and panels to outdoor public happenings.  This 9th edition’s theme is “Dining Art” and will host the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Global Summit which will provide a platform to discuss cutting-edge and innovative projects on the impact of art and technology on creating a...
To support China’s pledge to alleviate national poverty by 2020, the city of Changsha launched the ‘New Channel’ initiative. This programme supports employment and skills development of indigenous groups in rural areas, allowing them develop traditional handicraft and local products in a sustainable, innovative way. In partnerships with the Hunan University’s School of Design, students will have the opportunity to work with the local artisans, in the brainstorming and redesigning of the region’s traditional artisanship. This exchange enables...
GeniUS! York is a social and inclusive initiative that harbors the creativity of its community. Due to a downturn in the economy, City York Council needed a way to deliver economically sustainable local services, environmental support and care to its citizens. In order to generate ideas, the local government engaged its residents and brought the community together as a whole to develop promising solutions. By enabling the city of York to take ownership of the challenges it faces through the open innovation platform, GeniUS!, countless...