[spectre] 8vo Festival International de Video/Arte/Electr ó nica (VAE8)

[Jose-Carlos Mariategui]

8vo Festival International de Video/Arte/Electrónica (VAE8)
6th of September ­ 30th of November, 2004
 
Complete Programme: http://www.vae8.net
 
The Festival International de Video/Arte/Electrónica (VAE8) in Peru has
become one of the more important artistic events in country and one of the
main ones in Latin America. From 1998 the Festival has been promoting and
spreading the new technologies and means of artistic expression, extending
the panorama with respect to the electronic languages and to the disciplines
that tie art, science and technology.
 
In the last 6 years more than 80,000 people had attended the multiple
activities and events of the VAE.  In previous years we have counted with
the presence of artists like Marcel Odenbach (Germany), Randy Yau (the
United States), Hans Diebner (Germany), Robert Cahen (France), Oliver Agid
(France) and theoreticians like Airlindo Machado (Brazil), Rodrigo Alonso
(Argentina), Nils Roller (Germany), among more than 50 international guests.
 
For the Festival VAE8 (http://www.vae8.net) international artists such as
Zbigniew Karkowski (Poland), Christopher Havel (France), Andy Lugimbuhl
(Swiss), Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil) and Leslie Peters (Canada) are being
presented in Perú. The festival is in charge of Realidad Visual, an
independent organization of art and new media constituted by artists, and
researchers of diverse disciplines.  In previous years Festival VAE was in
charge of ATA (Alta Tecnología Andina) represented by José-Carlos
Mariátegui, Alfonso Castrillón and Jorge Villacorta, who now comprise the
VAE¹s Advisory Committee.
 
One of the most important aspects of this new version of the VAE8 is its
decentralization character because it promises to arrive at more communities
and spaces in Peru, increasing the possibilities of interchange between
artists of diverse regions of the country and with their international
counterparts.  This year the Festival will be presented for the first time
in provinces of Peru, in cities such as Puerto Maldonado, Trujillo,
Cajamarca, Cuzco and Arequipa
 
Some activities will extend until half-full of November. The Festival has
intensely supported the production of new Peruvian projects of electronic
art. More than 100 Peruvian works had been released during last the 4 years.
The last year thanks to the World Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam) and the
support of the Hivos Cultural Fund (Holland) we managed to support in the
production of five new national projects (from Jose-Carlos Martinat, Iván
Lozano, Diego Lama, Angie Bonino and Enrique Mayorga).
 
8vo international Festival de Video /Arte/Electronica (VAE8)
http://www.vae8.net
Press: ddoliver at realidadvisual.org
Coordination: vae at infonegocio.net.pe