FILE Festival, Sao Paulo. Huge city, huge exhibition. Like every year, the File Festival manages to show a wide variety of international contemporary new media art. Installations, Performances, Machinima, Animations, Webart,… But they also host Workshops dealing with newest technics and tools and a Symposium which addresses current topics and therefor is a good discursive platform for new media art.
A big difference to most of the new media art festivals is the wide-ranging audience visiting the exhibition. With about 1000 visitors per day and a period of one month it does not only adress the typical new media art nerds.
Because i participated with my installation “skia” in the exhibition and the symposium i had a very limited time frame to document the artworks.
But i even managed to get Christobal Mendoza for an interview, whos collaborative work “nervous structure” was one of my favourites.
Another very poetic and beautiful piece was ADA, an analog interactive installation by
Karina Smigla-Bobinski.
The next work i have to explain a bit…. If you stand in front of this screen, your face is tracked and alternately displayed with some movie scenes, where the head of the actors are on the same position in the framing as yours… It is called “movie mirrors” and was made by Ali Miharbi from turkey.
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