Category Archives: Festivals

Check this section for festivals in the US, Portugal (and ok… the rest of the world)

Arduino Workshop Planned for Future Places Festival

Festival planners are concluding negotiations with Tinker.it, a technology and design consultancy based in London and Milan, to offer a workshop on Arduino. This open-source electronics platform is known for its flexibility—allowing the creation of a wide range of interactive objects and environments—and for its accessibility, in that Arduino is simple enough to be used […]

Future Places festival update

The new Future Places website is up and running, and festival plans are progressing! The Future Places digital media festival will take place at the new Edifício Douro (Fundação da Juventude), in Porto, Portugal, from October 7th to October 19th. Future Places kicks off with two workshops on October 7 and 8, bringing together members […]

Offf Lisbon 2008

The atmosphere at Offf Lisbon 2008 was as fun as ever, with designers and artists from around the world converging at LX Factory—a beautiful 19th century industrial space—to celebrate digital design and inspire each other to push it a bit further everyday.
There was something for everyone, with presentations covering typography, motion design, web design, generative […]

Future Places - the Digital Media Festival 2008 is underway!

Source: Edificio Douro’s blog
After the success of the Digital Media Festival in 2007, the UT-Portugal partnership is organizing a new edition. For 2008 the title will be “Future Places”.
With Future Places the partnership wants to reach a generation of creators who are breaking conventions. The call for entries is addresses to those who are blurring […]

“Action in the Box” - Screenings of AdA video festival

Television spot on the exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRFPYjzQJyk
March 26 - April 12, 2008 | Gallery Plano B, Rua Cândido dos Reis | Porto, Portugal
This post mostly in Portuguese…

Citação do site oficial: “A Exposição ACTION IN THE BOX, redescobre a relação entre acção e a sua documentação apresentando vídeos de participantes do AdA festival em acção.[…]
ACTION IN THE […]

Taking offf

I like this blog… entitled “a source of inspiration”:
“Because the geography of post-digital art is based on continuous motion.
Because frontiers are just lines on a map.
Because OFFF is not about where. It is about when, what, who and how.
Because OFFF is a dynamic event.
Because the time is right for a change
And change means evolution
Because all […]

ok Portugal is definitely on the Digital Media international map

Offf Lisbon takes offf on May 8, 2008 and runs thru the 10th. It ’s the first time Offf goes to Portugal. Confirmed guests are:
Andreas Philström aka Suprb, Bradley Grosh aka Gmunk, Trafik, Rob Chiu & Chris Hewitt aka Devoid of Yesterday, Aer Visual Studio, Régine Debatty from We Make Money Not Art, […]