Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts, April 18-20th Boulde

[time.for.trees]

April 18-20 2008 / Boulder Colorado

Exploring Sustainability in Digital Arts

www.communikey.us/festival

The Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts is a three-day event coinciding with Earth Day weekend, fostering the exposure of global digital media to both local communities and traveling enthusiasts. Seven music performances held at a variety of Boulder venues will showcase digital creativity in the form of visual art and music by diverse artists from around the globe. Coupling arts, software workshops, panel discussions, and five interactive sustainability centric audio-visual installations, the festival presents an enriched cross section of artists who define the emerging horizon of digital media arts.



Featured Artists Include

TIPPER - UK

BRUNO PRONSATO- Germany

CARO – United States

GUILAUME & THE COUTU DUMONTS - Germany

GREG DAVIS & THE WIND UP BIRD – United States

JAMIE DROUIN & KARL KLIEM – Canada/Germany

KALABRESE'S RUMPELORCHESTRA- Switzerland

MISKATE - Germany

POLE - Germany

RETINA.IT & JOHN HUGHES - Italy

SHUTTLE358 – United States

SKOLTZ_KOLGEN - Canada

SOMEONE ELSE – Philadelphia/Germany

TEN AND TRACER – United States

THEODOR ZOX – Denmark

+ Many more www.communikey.us/festival

Held on Earth Day weekend, Communikey Festival provides tools for renewable resources in a digital world. Implementing a Zero Waste program and encouraging pedestrian and cyclist modes of transportation, alongside our Green Expo at the Boulder Theater, and panel discussion dealing with sustainable practice in digital culture, Communikey Festival intends to marry electronic arts with sustainable lifestyle.

Communikey Festival presents a variety of new media installations; including ASKAA from internationally renown act Skoltz_Kolgen (http://skoltzkolgen.com/). Communikey's own Sustainable Media Lab presents CUBO, an interactive sound sculpture comprised of reclaimed materials and exploring notions of social architecture via a site-specific, locative sound track. Deniz Kurtel builds a custom Color Kinetic intelligent lighting installation, hosted at Communikey's home venue, Trilogy Wine Bar.



Venues include:

ATLAS Institute (www.colorado.edu/atlas), Boulder Museum of Cotemporary Art, (www.bmoca.org), Boulder Theater (www.bouldertheater.com), Trilogy Wine Bar (www.trilogywinebar.com), City of Boulder Civic Plaza (www.communikey.us)

[docindo.dorsey]

wow. this looks really exciting and i have been checking to see this event. I wish i could make it there and detroit this year but money is always an issue. Goodluck... and have fun...

[ano.phi]

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[attentat]

Just a reminder for folks to get their passes! This is going to be an ill weekend!

http://www.communikey.us/festival