ArtFutura 2013
Feeding the Web
November 1st to 3rd / Auditorio Imagina, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
FuturaCircuit: Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Montevideo, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Sant Brieuc, Santiago de Chile, Tenerife and Torino
Indie Game (James Swirsky y Lisanne Pajot), Download (Alex Winter), Creators Project, Dvein, Nicolas Devaux
In 2013, ArtFutura explores the future of the Internet at a time when the distinction between the real and the virtual is increasingly blurred and is becoming more evident in interaction with databases. There is no longer a “cyberspace” separate from the real world: the world we live in penetrates, nourishes, and defines the data network as a reflection of our daily lives and our fantasies, what we have and what we desire.
ArtFutura’s 2013 audiovisual program includes all the latest noteworthy contributions in the field of digital creativity: 3D animation, motion graphics, time-lapse, special effects, viral videos, music videos… and two major documentaries on digital culture.
“Indie Game” is a documentary by Canadian filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot. The film documents the struggle of independent game developers. Awarded at Sundance, the film captures the tension and drama by focusing on the vulnerability of these artists and their obsessive pursuit to express themselves through a 21st-century art form.
“Downloaded”, for its part, it is a fascinating documentary about the Napster generation, file sharing on the Internet, and the social media revolution. In 1998, Shawn Fanning, a teenage programmer, created the code that would become the foundation of all peer-to-peer file sharing. In 1999, Fanning and his partner, Sean Parker, launched the Napster file-sharing service. What had started as an underground distribution method exploded into a full-scale global revolution. The documentary features Sean Parker (Facebook), Shawn Fanning (Rupture), Mike D (Beastie Boys), Noel Gallagher (Oasis), and many others.
The audiovisual program, for its part, features works by Dvein, Dan Sumich, Nicolas Devaux, Cristóbal Vila, Zachariah Scott, Ant Blades, Will Anderson, Chris Lenox Smith, Maciek Janicki, Weweremonkeys, Ninja Tune, Rocco Pezzella, and others. It also includes a new program dedicated to documenting new media works: Artworks, with pieces by Zaha Hadid, Vincent Morisset, and Paul Friedlander.
The goal of my project is to create artistic forms and mutable organic figures, whose three-dimensional shape, surface structure, and color change vividly and dynamically, as if reflecting echoes of music, light, and human communication.
Sachiko Kodama
If the Internet is part of our daily lives, our interaction with the flow of data can no longer be a solitary act. There is no option to remain on the sidelines or merely obtain information; everything we do is shared, by default, with the network itself.
Pau Waelder
