Upgrade!Paris #21 Alain Thibault Anne Laforet
Thuesday 17th march 2009 at 7:00pm at Point Ephemere 200 quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris Metro Jaures (ligne 2) free entrance, inscription : upgr...@incident.net *Alain Thibault will present Elektra festival* *and will talk about the diffusion of digital arts* *with: Anne Laforet* *Elektra*, a Montreal-based cultural initiative, presents artists and works of art that align the latest electronic music and visual creations derived from new technologies (animation, installation and robotics). Elektra unites creative media like music, video, cinema, design, gaming and audio or interactive installation with the latest digital technologies. Artists from all disciplines – composition, performance, dance, visual arts, etc. – all with a common interest in artistic applications of new technologies, uniting visual and sound. Elektra not only welcomes artists from all over the world, the festival also features local talents, helping make Montreal the North American meeting place for digital arts. *Elektra, 1 > 10 may 2009, 10th edition* http://www.elektramontreal.ca/ http://blog.elektramontreal.ca/ *Alain Thibault* is composer and director of Elektra festival. He comes in Paris for Presences, GRM festival of musical creation, for his piece *Volt+* (for video, ensemble and electronic). *Anne Laforet* is a Net art specialist and researcher. She has just presented her thesis on net art preservation. She writes on electronic culture for Poptronics.fr and Arte.tv. - Info on: http://incident.net/theupgrade/2009/alain-thibault/ Upgrade!Paris sessions are organized by Incident.net. They are public, mounthly and itinerants. Artists, researchers, architects, theorists present during one hour their recent work. Supported by the French Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication. Archives: http://incident.net/theupgrade - ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre