FILE - Electronic Language International Festival

Literature
Founded
2000
Type
Festival Organizer, Art and Technology
City
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Country
Brazil
Partner
https://file.org.br/support/
About

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is a non-profit cultural organization that sparks a reflexion on the main aspects of contemporary digital and electronic universe; disseminating the electronic language across Brazil and South America through events and publications since the year 2000.

FILE gathers works of aesthetic expression that capture the main trends and movements of our contemporary culture, which are diversified amongst the main categories of the festival:

Electronic Sonority: Sound Performance, Sound Installations, Sound Art, Genetic Music, Biologic Music, Classical Electronic Music, Pop Electronic Music, Dramatic Radio Broadcasting, Radio Art, Sound Landscape, Sound Robotics, Music Video, Sound Poetry, Sound Robotics, etc.

Interactive Art: installations, performances, internet projects, virtual reality, augmented reality, multitouch tables, digital objects, outdoor projections, phone projects, electronic graffiti, VRML, etc.

Digital Language: digital games, animation, digital theatre, machinima, digital video, digital architecture, digital fashion, digital design, robotics, artificial life, biological art, transgenic art, software art, new interfaces, animes, hypertexts, non-linear scripts, artificial intelligence, programming language, digital poetry, digital dance, etc.

Founded in the year 2000 by Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto, FILE aims to magnify technological discussions in the cultural scope. Besides the traditional annual event in São Paulo city, the festival expands itself across national and international borders to cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Vitória, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, São Luis and Brasilia.

FILE’s mission is to promote a wider access from the general public to technologic languages demonstrating how our contemporary world builds itself on the advances of new and digital medias.

 

Technology & Material
Areas of Specialization

Art and Technology,

Installations, Interactive Installations, Sound Installations,

WebArt, MediaArt, VideoArt, Gifs,

Games,

Animations,

Intereactive Movies,

Mapping,

Public Interventions,

Virtual Reality Art, Augmentaded Reality Art

 

 

 

News
FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO online meetings, follow at: alive.file.org.br

The FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO online meetings, to be held on March 29, 30 and 31, 2021, will include professionals and researchers dedicated to the areas of digital memory, cultural heritage preservation and information technology, present in six round tables, presenting case studies, examples of archives and conservation strategies for organizations that aim the free dissemination and protection of art and technology collections.

 

The event’s goal is to explore themes focused on the challenges imposed by the process of archiving media art, mapping and interconnecting metadata. Based on the results obtained at the meetings, a White Report will be produced and published containing the main reflections raised by the specialized professionals. Access will be free and the sessions will be broadcast live. To register and participate in the online meetings access the FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO platform.

FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO online meetings, follow at: alive.file.org.br
OPEN CALL | FILE WORKSHOP ONLINELink: shorturl.at/mnCKN

FILE International Electronic Language Festival team is committed to develop a platform to expand access and offer online content; in digital and electronic arts areas; freely available to the general public.

Subscribe your proposal!

It will be a pleasure to count on your participation!

OPEN CALL | FILE WORKSHOP ONLINELink: shorturl.at/mnCKN
FILE SÃO PAULO 2020

We are communicating to all of our partners, to all of our collaborators and to all of our participants, as well as to all of our audiences that FILE SAO PAULO 2020 is temporarily suspended.

 

As a result, the event, at this moment, cannot be held due to the current world and national scenario regarding the security measures that are adopted by governments, institutions, public and private bodies referring to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

 

 

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival appreciates the efforts of the FILE team and of all the artists involved so far in preparing the exhibition and is committed to communicating them as soon as a new date is confirmed.

FILE SÃO PAULO 2020
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