ArtFutura is an annual festival of

digital culture Internet culture refers to culture developed and maintained among frequent and active users of the Internet (also known as netizens) who primarily communicate with one another as members of online communities; that is, a culture whose influence ...

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

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

, Ibiza, London, and

Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

. 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,

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s, 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 provide ...

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 List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

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 Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...

, Granada, Lisbon, London, Madrid, México DF, Montevideo,

Palma de Mallorca Palma (, ; ), also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is ...

, Paris,

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, São Paulo,

Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital city, capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's Chilean Central Valley, central valley and is the center ...

, 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, or the digital arts, is artistic work that uses Digital electronics, digital technology as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960 ...

. 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. I ...

, 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 Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French contemporary artist, who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. He lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Early life and education Pier ...

, 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

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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