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ArtFutura is an annual festival ofdigital culture. It was first staged in Barcelona in 1990. Other sites have includedBuenos Aires, Ibiza, London, andMontevideo.
ArtFutura is directed by Montxo Algora.
ArtFutura contains conferences,workshops, exhibitions, live shows and anaudiovisual program which includes the latest novelties in digital creativity.
Much of the ArtFutura content is developed in Barcelona andMadrid although connections by means ofvideo conferences are established with other cities in which the festival is held.
Among the cities in which ArtFutura is presented are included Buenos Aires,Bogotá, Granada, Lisbon, London, Madrid,México DF, Montevideo,Palma de Mallorca, Paris,Punta del Este, São Paulo,Santiago de Chile, Torino, Tenerife, Vigo andVitoria-Gasteiz.
GaleriaFutura is the division of ArtFutura destined to the exhibitions ofdigital art.
One of its most important projects was the "Souls&Machines" ( Máquinas&Almas) exhibit that was presented at theMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain and curated by Montxo Algora and José Luis de Vicente.
It included the works ofPaul Friedlander, Sachiko Kodama,Theo Jansen, Daniel Rozin,Chico McMurtrie, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Daniel Canogar, Evru, David Byrne, David Hanson, Vuk Ćosić,Pierre Huyghe, Harun Farocki,Muntadas, Ben Rubin, Mark Hansen,Antoni Abad and Natalie Jeremijenko.
For each edition of the festival, ArtFutura edits a printed catalog which includes a selection of articles on digital art and culture.
