It’s been a longstanding and widely accepted theory that technology was a contributing factor in the fall of the values of “traditional” art. A prime example of this was the camera, whose invention in the late 19th century served to strip artists of their traditional roles as the premiere visual recorders of humanity. Finding themselves in a unique new situation, yet still working with their traditional mediums, artists began to focus on trying to explain experience rather than simply recording it. This progression led ultimately to Warhol’s generation, when fine artists took the new conceptual awareness which had reached unprecedented heights with modernism, and began to re-adopt new technologies as a valid medium.

Today, to be an artist and to ignore the creative uses of new technologies is to make yourself comparable to that mythical sand-embedded ostrich. New media, digital media and digital film are mediums that have fast become the new creative vanguard, whose limits are being stretched every day. MP4Fest aims to expose some of these new thinkers and creators in the digital field.

MP4Fest is curated by Saskia Wilson-Brown, Dave Burns and Joan Valencia. Guest curators have included Legier Biederman, Philipe DeBevoise of Machinima.com, and Paul Marino of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences.

Link to mp4Fest.org website here
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