The World’s Largest Annual Tradeshow for Consumer Technology!  129,000 attendees for the 2004 show.

SCI-FI-LONDON, a strictly non-geeky, serious look at science fiction and fantasy film! We take place last weekend of January/first weekend of February at London’s favourite cinemas, The Curzon SOHO (Time Out readers’ poll 2000 and 2001) and The Other Cinema, London’s cool new arthouse screen. 

Focusing on creative works shot in only Digital & Video formats, the MDVF is a full featured 3-day film festival recognizing the best Narratives, Comedies,  Documentaries, Music Videos,  Experimentals & Animations in friendly competition.

Subtle Technologies is a multidisciplinary event exploring the complex and subtle relationships between art and science.

Based in London, onedotzero is ‘a cross media production company and an acclaimed international network of events’. It has been the largest dedicated digital film festival in the world since 1999. In addition to the festival, onedotzero have produced TV series, numerous short films, interactive media and various other installations and commissions. 

The title of the conference has been borrowed from Goethe’s 1809 novel Elective Affinities.  There, the term “elective affinities” is the subject of an energetic debate.  A chemical term that was in currency from the late eighteenth century, in the novel it extends to human relationships, both intimate and political.  Since this is a novel that foregrounds “mixed media” such as tableaux vivants (i.e. dramatic performances of artworks) and the picturesque garden, the concept of “elective affinities” also has profound implications for the relationship between words and images.  Like the alkalis and acids of which Goethe’s characters speak, words and images, though apparently opposed, may have a remarkable affinity for one another.  At the same time, as one of the protagonists objects, such affinities are problematic, and “are only really interesting when they bring about separations.” The conference seeks – in the spirit of Goethe’s allusive discussion – to explore word/image interactions in literature and visual arts from a broad historical perspective, and also as they extend to fields as diverse as Political Science, Religious Studies, and History of Science.

Cinequest is Northern California’s premier motion picture institute that produces: Cinequest Film Festival, a soul-stirring and personable discovery festival of international films and digital forums for movie lovers, Maverick film artists and students; Cinequest Online, the Internet’s premier film marketing and distribution site; Cinequest Digital Studio; Youthquest; and Cinequest Screenwriting Competition. 

Inspired by World’s Fairs of the past, Wired NextFest presents the future in Chicago this summer.

Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California USA
http://www.siggraph.org/s2005/

Participate in the world’s premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques.

festival/symposium (March 25-27, 2005)
exhibition (March 25-April 17, 2005)

The exhibition is open to works based on the theme “Today in Paradise - Genetics & Art” from various fields such as visual arts, architecture, design, music, dance and performance. Artists are invited to interpret the theme in various ways, either trough direct commentary on genetics and biotechnology, or from a sociological/cultural perspective. Liberal interpretations and more abstract approaches to the theme will also be encouraged. Works utilizing genetic algorithms and evolutionary processes are also of interest, and need not be thematically or aesthetically related to the topic.

The exhibition will show work of all kinds of media, for example interactive installations, photography, video, sound and netbased art.

The festival will show work from the fields of music (especially electronic), dance and performance art.

A part of the exhibition will also hold information and visions from ongoing research from biotechnology institutions and companies.