[Dancecult-l] Electronic music and arts festivals

Kath O'Donnell aliak77 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 07:14:32 CET 2006


not sure if these are what you're after but how about:

TransAcoustic Festival in Auckland, New Zealand - it's a smaller event, more
sound art I guess, but could build up into a larger festival.
http://www.transacoustic.org.nz/ (though it seems to be down atm)
Liquid Architecture (Aus/NZ)
sxsw (austin, texas, usa) http://2007.sxsw.com/
media art beinnale / media art seoul
straight out of brisbane (soob) (brisbane - like a mini TINA)
http://straightoutofbrisbane.com/

les siestes electroniques (toulouse/berlin)
http://www.les-siestes-electroniques.com/
triptych festival (glasgow, scotland) http://www.triptychfestival.com/
Koneisto (finland) http://www.koneisto.com/
exit festival (eastern europe) http://www.exitfest.org/ or
http://eng.exitfest.org/ for english
movement / detroit electronic music festival  http://www.demf.com/
CEAIT festival / redcat (los angeles usa)
http://redcat.org/season/0506/mus/ceait.php
CeC & CaC - The Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave (India)
(electronic arts more than music)  http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac
artepolis (indonesia) http://www.artepolis.info/ (conf about urban culture
so might not be relevant)
earthdance http://www.earthdance.org.au/
optronica (uk) http://www.optronica.org/ (video/film/digital art & music)
radiator festival (uk) http://radiator-festival.org/newradiator/ (new
technology / film / art)
Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF)
http://www.computermusic.or.kr/main_en/
Entheogenesis Australis  http://www.entheo.net/
garage festival (germany)  http://garage.in-mv.de
freedom festival (amnesty international) (aus)
http://shop.amnesty.org.au/freedom
ctrl_alt_del / nomad (turkey) (sound art festival)
http://nomad-tv.net/ctrl_alt_del
futuresonic (manchester) http://www.futuresonic.com/
ISEA (based in netherlands but festivals / symposium held in different
countries) (digital arts) http://www.isea-web.org/
SCANZ (New Zealand) (new media not perhaps not relative)
http://www.scanz.net.nz




I have some listed under festivals category
(http://www.aliak.com/taxonomy/term/80)
on my site or search for festivals & u might find some more - different
genres/music/arts/films etc if that helps



On 12/15/06, Graham St John <g.stjohn at warpmail.net> wrote:
>
>  Thanks Evan, but to qualify my inquiry, right now im looking at
> international electronic arts festivals normally held in clubs, galleries,
> warehouses and campus buildings in metropolitan districts, often with arts
> council funding, sometimes requiring registration and featuring a range of
> experimental electronic musics alongside other digital media arts
> performances, workshops, techniques and forums. ie not psytrance festivals
> or teknivals.
>
> Graham
>
>
> Why exclude psychedelic / trance festivals when some of them have the most
> effort, originality and global participation?
> I'm sure you have your reasons but I thought I'd pass this along anyway,
> someone started combing the googlemap technology with mapping major
> psychedelic (mainly trance) festivals.  They seems to 48 so far.
>
> http://www.tagzania.com/user/chilluminati
>
> On 12/14/06,* Graham St John* < g.stjohn at warpmail.net> wrote:
>
> Just wondering if I could get a name check on important Electronic
> music and arts festivals from people on the list. [Im NOT talking
> about trance festivals or teknivals here] So im aware of Barcelona's
> Sonar, Berlin's Transmediale, Montreal's Mutek and Seattle's Decibel.
> What are the others? I'm curious to find out  more about how these
> events have developed and how they may be characterised by comparison
> to one another. For instance, what kind of genres of musics are
> showcased? Im also curious about events pushing boundaries like
> London's Netaudio festival and whether similar events are happening?
> And im curious about emergent fringe events with more of an activist
> angle, perhaps like Chicago's Version or This is Not Art in Newcastle
> Australia (ok the latter is not new) . Are there any chronologies or
> historical mappings been conducted on these EDM festivals? Generally
> im just curious. Any infos appreciated
>
> Graham
>
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