# Artlas — Global Art & Technology Events Archive

> Artlas is a comprehensive, nonprofit directory of worldwide art and technology events. It serves Artists, Producers, Engineers, and Scientists (APES) working at the intersection of art and technology.

## About

Artlas (https://artlas.org) is a free, open, bilingual (English/Korean) archive of 80+ art & technology events across 36 countries and 7 regions worldwide. The project is permanently operated as a nonprofit for the public good.

The name "APES" stands for **A**rtist, **P**roducer, **E**ngineer, **S**cientist — representing everyone working in convergence arts and creative technology.

## What Artlas Covers

Artlas catalogs the following types of art & technology events:

- **Festivals**: Media art festivals, digital art festivals, audiovisual festivals
- **Conferences**: Academic conferences on HCI, computer graphics, electronic art, creative AI
- **Biennials**: International biennials and triennials of new media art
- **Awards**: Prizes for digital art, media art, and creative technology
- **Organizations**: Institutions, labs, and networks for art & technology

### Genres & Disciplines Covered

- Media Art
- AI Art & Creative AI
- Art-Science
- Digital Art
- Sound Art / Music Technology
- Audiovisual Art
- Interactive Art
- Creative Coding / Generative Art
- Design & Interactive Design
- Performance Art & Technology
- Film / Video Art
- XR (VR/AR/MR)
- Computer Graphics
- HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)
- Game Art
- Light Art

## Featured Events Directory

### Festivals

- **Ars Electronica Festival** (Linz, Austria, est. 1979) — One of the world's most prestigious media art festivals. https://ars.electronica.art
- **transmediale** (Berlin, Germany, est. 1988) — Festival for digital culture and post-digital art. https://transmediale.de
- **Sónar Festival** (Barcelona, Spain, est. 1994) — Advanced music and new media art festival. https://sonar.es
- **OFFF Festival** (Barcelona/Vienna, est. 2001) — International festival for post-digital creation. https://offf.barcelona
- **STRP Festival** (Eindhoven, Netherlands, est. 2006) — Art & technology biennial festival. https://strp.nl
- **TodaysArt Festival** (The Hague, Netherlands, est. 2005) — Cutting-edge art, music and technology. https://todaysart.nl
- **IMPAKT Festival** (Utrecht, Netherlands, est. 1988) — Critical media culture festival. https://impakt.nl
- **FutureEverything** (Manchester, UK, est. 2003) — Art, technology and innovation. https://futureeverything.org
- **Forward Festival** (Vienna/Hamburg/Munich, est. 2016) — Creativity and technology. https://forward-festival.com
- **CYNETART** (Dresden, Germany, est. 1997) — Trans-media art festival. https://cynetart.de
- **NODE Forum for Digital Arts** (Frankfurt, Germany, est. 2008) — Digital arts and creative coding. https://nodeforum.org
- **KIKK Festival** (Namur, Belgium, est. 2011) — Digital and creative cultures. https://kikk.be
- **Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF)** (Athens, Greece, est. 2005) — Digital arts festival. https://adaq.gr
- **Resonate Festival** (Belgrade, Serbia, est. 2012) — Art and technology. https://resonate.io
- **Elektra Festival** (Montreal, Canada, est. 1999) — Digital art and new technologies. https://elektramontreal.ca
- **SXSW** (Austin, USA, est. 1987) — Music, film, interactive media and technology. https://sxsw.com
- **CURRENTS New Media Festival** (Santa Fe, USA, est. 2004) — New media art. https://currentsnewmedia.org
- **MUTEK Montreal** (Montreal, Canada, est. 2000) — Electronic music and digital creativity. https://montreal.mutek.org
- **Eyeo Festival** (Minneapolis, USA, est. 2011) — Computational art and creative coding. https://eyeofestival.com
- **Vector Festival** (Toronto, Canada, est. 2013) — Games, art and new media. https://vectorfestival.org
- **FITC** (Toronto/Amsterdam, est. 2002) — Design and technology festival. https://fitc.ca
- **MUTEK.JP** (Tokyo, Japan, est. 2016) — Electronic music and digital arts. https://mutek.jp
- **Microwave International New Media Arts Festival** (Hong Kong, est. 1996) — New media art. https://microwavefest.net
- **Vivid Sydney** (Sydney, Australia, est. 2009) — Light, music and ideas. https://vividsydney.com
- **FILE** (São Paulo, Brazil, est. 2000) — Electronic Language International Festival. https://file.org.br
- **MUTEK México** (Mexico City, Mexico, est. 2003) — Digital creativity. https://mexico.mutek.org
- **Cairotronica** (Cairo, Egypt, est. 2015) — Electronic and new media arts. https://cairotronica.com
- **Fak'ugesi** (Johannesburg, South Africa, est. 2014) — African digital innovation. https://fakugesi.co.za
- **Computer Space** (Sofia, Bulgaria, est. 2004) — New media art. https://computerspace.org
- **DA Z – Digital Art Zurich** (Zurich, Switzerland, est. 2017) — Digital art. https://da-z.net
- **MUTEK Barcelona** (Barcelona, Spain, est. 2005) — Digital creativity. https://barcelona.mutek.org
- **MUTEK San Francisco** (San Francisco, USA, est. 2017) — Digital creativity. https://sf.mutek.org
- **MUTEK Buenos Aires** (Buenos Aires, Argentina, est. 2005) — Digital creativity. https://buenosaires.mutek.org
- **Multiplicidade** (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, est. 2005) — Art, technology and culture. https://multiplicidade.com
- **FAD – Festival de Arte Digital** (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, est. 2007) — Digital art. https://fad.art.br
- **Clockenflap** (Hong Kong, est. 2008) — Music and arts festival. https://clockenflap.com
- **Beijing 798 Art Festival** (Beijing, China, est. 2004) — Contemporary art. https://www.798art.org
- **Gwangju Media Art Festival** (Gwangju, South Korea, est. 2010) — Media art. https://gjma.kr
- **Istanbul Digital Art Festival (IDAF)** (Istanbul, Turkey, est. 2017) — Digital art. https://idaf.com.tr
- **Print Screen Festival** (Holon, Israel, est. 2010) — Digital culture. https://printscreenfestival.com
- **Addis Video Art Festival** (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, est. 2014) — Video art. https://addisvaf.com
- **Media Art Globale (MAG)** (Singapore, est. 2017) — Media art. https://mag.connectedartplatform.com
- **Videoart at Midnight** (Berlin, Germany, est. 2008) — Video art screenings. https://videoart-at-midnight.de
- **Manifestations Festival** (Eindhoven, Netherlands, est. 2017) — Sound and visual art. https://manifestations.nl
- **Regenerative Feedback** (Netherlands, est. 2015) — Experimental art. https://regenerativefeedback.nl
- **GIFF** (Geneva, Switzerland, est. 1995) — Film and immersive media. https://giff.ch
- **China Shanghai International Arts Festival** (Shanghai, China, est. 1999) — International arts. https://www.artsbird.com
- **Images Festival** (Toronto, Canada, est. 1987) — Independent film and media art. https://imagesfestival.com

### Conferences

- **ISEA** (Nomadic, est. 1988) — International Symposium on Electronic Art. https://isea-international.org
- **ACM SIGGRAPH** (Various US/Asia, est. 1974) — Computer graphics and interactive techniques. https://www.siggraph.org
- **SIGGRAPH Asia** (Asia-Pacific, est. 2008) — Computer graphics in Asia. https://sa.siggraph.org
- **ACM CHI** (Various, est. 1982) — Human-Computer Interaction. https://chi.acm.org
- **NIME** (Various, est. 2001) — New Interfaces for Musical Expression. https://nime.org
- **ACM TEI** (Various, est. 2007) — Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction. https://tei.acm.org
- **ACM C&C** (Various, est. 1993) — Creativity & Cognition. https://cc.acm.org
- **ACM DIS** (Various, est. 1995) — Designing Interactive Systems. https://dis.acm.org
- **ACM IMX** (Various, est. 2003) — Interactive Media Experiences. https://imx.acm.org
- **ACM Multimedia Art Program** (Various, est. 1993) — Multimedia art. https://acmmm.org
- **ICMC** (Various, est. 1974) — International Computer Music Conference. https://computermusic.org
- **EVA** (London/Florence, est. 1990) — Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. https://eva-london.org
- **xCoAx** (European cities, est. 2013) — Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. https://xcoax.org
- **AIIDE / AAAI Creative AI Track** (Various, est. 2005) — Creative AI. https://aaai.org
- **Seminario Narrativas Hipertextuales** (Argentina/Uruguay, est. 2010) — Hypertextual narratives. https://narrativashipertextuales.info
- **CEC** (Various, est. 1995) — Computational Creativity. https://computationalcreativity.net

### Biennials

- **SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul** (Seoul, South Korea, est. 2000) — Media city biennale. https://mediacityseoul.kr
- **The Wrong Biennale** (Online & Global, est. 2013) — World's largest online art biennale. https://thewrong.org
- **International Triennial of New Media Art** (Beijing, China, est. 2008) — New media art triennial. https://namoc.org

### Awards

- **Prix Ars Electronica** (Linz, Austria, est. 1987) — Most prestigious media art award. https://ars.electronica.art/prix
- **STARTS Prize (EU)** (Linz/Brussels, est. 2016) — Innovation at Science, Technology and Arts. https://starts.eu/prize
- **Lumen Prize** (London, est. 2012) — Digital art prize. https://lumenprize.com
- **Japan Media Arts Festival** (Tokyo, Japan, est. 1997) — Media arts award. https://j-mediaarts.jp

### Organizations & Institutions

- **ZKM | Center for Art and Media** (Karlsruhe, Germany, est. 1989) — Major media art museum and research center. https://zkm.de
- **Ars Electronica Center** (Linz, Austria, est. 1996) — Museum of the future. https://ars.electronica.art/center
- **V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media** (Rotterdam, Netherlands, est. 1981) — Art and media technology. https://v2.nl
- **STEIM** (Amsterdam, Netherlands, est. 1969) — Studio for electro-instrumental music. https://steim.org
- **Leonardo / ISAST** (San Francisco, est. 1968) — Art, science and technology journal and organization. https://leonardo.info
- **EMAP** (Various EU, est. 2018) — European Media Art Platform. https://emare.eu
- **ANAT** (Adelaide, Australia, est. 1984) — Australian Network for Art & Technology. https://anat.org.au
- **APE CAMP** (Seoul, South Korea, est. 2022) — Arts & technology camp. https://thearts.arko.or.kr/apecamp
- **APE TALK** (Seoul, South Korea, est. 2024) — Arts & technology talks. http://apetalk.org

## Regional Coverage

- **Europe**: 30+ events across Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, UK, Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Italy, France
- **North America**: 10+ events across USA, Canada, Mexico
- **Asia**: 10+ events across Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Turkey
- **South America**: 5+ events across Brazil, Argentina
- **Oceania**: 2+ events in Australia
- **Africa & Middle East**: 4+ events in Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, Israel
- **Global/Nomadic**: 10+ conferences and events that rotate locations worldwide

## Technical Details

- **URL**: https://artlas.org
- **Languages**: English, Korean (한국어)
- **License**: CC BY-NC 4.0
- **Maintainer**: Joonhyung Bae (jh.bae@kaist.ac.kr)
- **Data format**: Searchable, filterable web archive
- **Updates**: Regularly updated with new events and information

## How to Use

Visit https://artlas.org to:
1. Browse all 80+ art & technology events worldwide
2. Filter by type (festival, conference, biennial, award, organization)
3. Filter by region (Europe, North America, Asia, etc.)
4. Filter by genre (Media Art, AI, Creative Coding, Sound Art, etc.)
5. Search by name, city, country, or keyword
6. Switch between English and Korean (한국어) interface

## Contact

- Maintainer: Joonhyung Bae
- Email: jh.bae@kaist.ac.kr
- Website: https://joonhyungbae.com