BARCELONA, SPAIN.- ArtFutura reaches its seventeenth edition. From 26 to 29 October, the festival that has become a point of reference in Spain for art, technology and digital culture will offer an extensive program of activities in museums and cultural centers in as many as ten different cities.
Once again, ArtFutura is basing its nerve center in Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, where presentations and conferences, workshops and project exhibitions will take place along with simultaneous viewings of its wide-ranging program of projections and parallel activities in nine other capitals. ArtFutura 2006 will present the most outstanding and innovative projects that have been undertaken over the last twelve months on the international scene of digital art, interactive design, computer animation and video games. At a time in which, following a boom in social technologies such as blogs and new paradigms such as the Web 2.
0 , Internet users are generating and canalizing greater volumes of information in different ways, artists, designers and technologists are becoming interested in designing new forms of representing and visualizing the constant movement of data that surrounds us.
