The following is an incomplete list of festivals dedicated to new media art.
The ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art is an annual event consisting of a symposium on issues related to electronic art and an exhibition in a festival format. Each year, the symposium is hosted by a different organization and country. The most recent festivals were:
ISEA2016 in Hong Kong,
ISEA2015 in Vancouver,
ISEA2014 in Dubai,
ISEA2013 in Sydney.
Egypt
Di-Egy Fest is a biennial digital media art festival in Cairo.
Cairo Video Festival is a place for artists to showcase their video art productions.
CairoTronica: Cairo International Electronic and New Media Arts Symposium
Ethiopia
ADDIS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL is an annual video art festival in Addis Ababa.
South Africa
Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is an annual art and technology festival in Johannesburg, South Africa.
China (mainland)
International Triennial of New Media Art provides a platform for the presentation and theorization of cutting edge media artwork.
China Shanghai International Arts Festival is hosted by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing 798 Art Festival is celebrated at the end of every September.
China International Gallery Exposition is an annual art exhibition that showcases modern art and design.
Hong Kong
Clockenflap is an annual multimedia arts festival in Hong Kong.
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival is an annual international media art festival.
Indonesia
O.K Video Festival focuses on the development of video arts in Indonesia.
Iran
TADAEX (Official Website) is the annual digital arts festival held in Tehran.
Japan
Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs since 1997.
South Korea
ACT Festival is an annual festival held in Gwangju. The festival takes place at a newly remodeled provincial city hall.
Taiwan
Taipei Digital Art Festival
Philippines
WSK Festival is the first and only international festival of digital arts and new media in the Philippines.
Austria
Prix Ars Electronica is the largest international New Media festival. It is held in Linz annually.
Art Meets Radical Openness is a festival run by local initiative servus.at bringing together media arts and the free software movement.
Paraflows
Urban Art Forms Festival
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Basics Festival - Medien, Kunst, Gesellschaft
Belgium
VIA Festival (Website 2015's edition) is an international festival focused on the performing art and new technologies: theatrical performances, music and dance, urban installations and exhibitions. It is produced by the Manège Mons/Maubeuge. (Official website) - Belgium/France.
Transnumeriques Biennale (Official website) is the first international festival of new media art in Wallonia-Brussels Federation (previously Netd@ys) - Belgium. Initiated in 2005 by Transcultures.
Kikk Festival (Official website) offers amix of technology, visual arts, music, architecture, design and interactive media. The program includes conferences, workshops, an exhibition, a market and a party with live performances. Initiated in 2011 by Dogstudio and Superbe. Namur - Belgium.
Courtisane Festival
Art Basel
update / New Technological Art Award (www.ntaa.be). International New Media Art Biennale in Ghent. Since 2005.
Bulgaria
VideoHart (ВидеоХарТ in Bulgarian), held in 1995, no longer active. Considered the first festival that showed Bulgarian video art.
xfilm festival, held in 2005, no longer active
DA Fest
Computer space
Croatia
Touch Me Festival
Cyprus
International Motion Festival Cyprus - IMF (motionfestivalcyprus.com)
Countryside Animafest Cyprus Views of the World (www.animafest.com.cy)
Czech Republic
ENTER Festival (Official website) Enter international art | sci | tech | biennale prague. Organized by International Centre for Art and New Technologies – CIANT Prague
Anemic festival Independent Film and New Media Art. Organized by M77-Art, New Media & Training, Prague.
Digital.Zooo
Echofluxx
The Butterfly Effect - The Coordinates of the Moment Before Discovery
Reset
Zoom
Denmark
re-new is a combined Interactive Media Arts Festival and Conference. Organized by re-new digital arts forum, it is held annually in Copenhagen.
CLICK Festival
ENTER Festival
Anemic festival
International Digital Art Festival “On the edge In-between function and disruption”
Finland
Alternative Party a digital culture and demoscene art festival
Pixelache Helsinki ([1]) is a transdisciplinary platform for experimental art, design, research and activism.
MuuMedia Festival
Lens Politica
France
Le Manege
Make Art
Hacker Space
Lyon Biennale
Arborescence
Bains numériques
Mal au Pixel
Germany
KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln - Short Film Festival Cologne, the section New Aesthetic focuses on media art.
Transmediale – festival for art and digital culture Berlin
NODE Forum for Digital Arts (Website 2010's edition)
European Media Art Festival
Retune - Festival at the intersection of Art, Design and Technology. Held annually in Berlin since 2012.
re:publica ([2])-Festival für Digitale Kultur since 2006.
Mediale Hamburg 1993. Das erste Festival für Medienkunst und Medienzukunft.
Lab30
LichtRouten Lüdenscheid - city-wide, both indoors and outdoors, with a focus on light art. Began in 2002.
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CTM Festival
Filmwinter
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Directors Lounge
Cynetart
Medienbiennale Leipzig
Media Space
Garage
Multimediale
Neuro - networking europe
OSTRANENIE
EMERGEANDSEE
Greece
Festival Miden is an international video art and new media art festival based in Kalamata.
Athens Digital Arts Festival is an international festival, based in Athens, which celebrates digital culture through an annual gathering bringing together a global community of artists and audiences. Athens Digital Arts Festival
Iceland
The SEQUENCES real-time art festival is held in the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik. Its emphasis is time-based work, performance, sound art, video and music. The aim of the annual independent art festival is to celebrate and exhibit cutting-edge visual art with a special emphasis on art in public/urban spaces.
Art Meets Radical Openness Research
Italy
Netmage is an international festival dedicated to electronic art curated by Xing and produced annually in the city of Bologna as a multidisciplinary program of works, investigating and promoting contemporary audiovisual research.
AsoloArtFilmFestival is an international festival dedicated to films about Arts.
Kernel Festival is an international new media art festival. Kernel is an international platform for the promotion of art, research, experimentation, youth empowerment, industry and contemporary creativity.
Rome Media Art Festival is an international festival promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. The Festival has an international Scientific Committee, Tullio De Mauro as President and it is directed by Valentino Catricalà. The Festival is characterized by a laboratorial attitude: it is not only based on events and exhibitions, but also on lectures master class, conferences, workshops and laboratories for schools and universities.
Israel
Print Screen Festival is an annual film and new media art festival initiated in 2010 and taking place in the Holon Cinematheque. (Official web site)
Lithuania
Centras international multimedia arts and music festival for video, sound and live audiovisual artists. Organised every spring in Kaunas city.
http://www.cntrs.lt/
Norway
Article is a biennial festival for unstable art forms, arranged by i/o/lab, the Rogaland Centre for Future Art in Stavanger. Article web site
Piksel is part workshop, part festival, arranged annually in Bergen for artists and developers working with open source hardware, software and art. Pixel web site
Trondheim Matchmaking - international new media art festival took place yearly at the Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre from 2002 - 2009. Changed name to Meta-Morph in 2010 and continues bi-annually.
Poland
WRO Media Art Biennale Wroclaw Poland [3] Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication.
Patchlab Digital Art Festival Kraków [4] an international event dedicated to interdisciplinary (post)digital art forms, created at the intersection of new technologies, humanities and creative programming. Since 2012.
Portugal
PLUNC is an international festival of Digital Art and New Media that presents projects and works that intersect art and technology through exhibitions, workshops, talks and round tables.
Russia
Multimatograf international festival of multimedia art. Organised every spring in Vologda city since 2005. http://multimatograf.ru/
Plums Fest – international festival and platform for audiovisual arts, interdisciplinary research and multimedia experiments. The festival takes place in May in Moscow. Since 2008. http://plumsfest.ru/
The Netherlands
Amsterdam Film eXperience – AFX is an international festival for (short) film, new media and cross-over in Amsterdam
Cinekid – Annual Media Festival for Kids in Amsterdam. Since 1987.
Dutch Electronic Art Festival – (bi)annual Media Arts Festival. Since 1987.
Discovery Festival – Opens up science for a wider public. Since 2006.
E-Pulse – Media art festival in Breda. Since 2009.
Fiber Festival – Media arts festival in Amsterdam, with a focus on creative makers. Since 2010.
Glow Light Arts Festival – Festival in Eindhoven which shows light-based arts. Since 2006.
GOGBOT – GOGBOT is an annual international festival for new media art, presented by PLANETART in Enschede. Since 1988.
Impakt Festival – Impakt Festival for audiovisual arts in Utrecht
MAFF Media Art Flow Festival – Media Arts festival in Almelo. Since 2007.
Oddstream Festival – Media Arts festival in Nijmegen. Since 2011.
TodaysArt – TodaysArt Festival is an annual international festival for arts in The Hague.
PicNic festival – Annual media festival, focussed mostly on business, but also invested in eCulture. Since 2006.
Playgrounds festival -Annual Visual and media arts festival based in Tilburg. Since 2007.
Moving Buildings Festival – Audiovisual and mapping Festival in Amstelveen
Sonic Acts – Biennial 4day Media Arts festival in Amsterdam. Since 1994.
State-X New Forms – Annually shows art and performances in the Hague. Since 2003.
STRP Biennial – Biennial art and technology festival in Eindhoven. STRP links creative technology to art and life for curious people. In nearly ten years (since 2006) and six editions, STRP, which has made its home on the former Philips factory grounds, has grown into one of the most versatile indoor art & technology festivals. The highlight is the STRP Biennial held every two years, with the seventh edition taking place from 20 – 29 March 2015.
Urban Explorers – Annual media art festival in Dordrecht, with a focus on urban/city developments. Since 2006.
OrbitFest
Serbia
Resonate (Official website) brings together artists, designers and educators to participate in a debate on the position of technology in art and culture. Held each year in Belgrade-Serbia, the festival provides an overview of current situation in the fields of music, visual arts and digital culture.
Slovenia
Speculum Artium (Official website) is international New Media festival. It is held in Trbovlje.
Sonica Festival, yearly organised by Museum of Transitory Art (MoTA), in Ljubljana.
Spain
SCREEN Festival The Festival program, presented in various venues throughout the city, is generated by inviting international platforms, curators and institutions to collaborate with local actors dedicated to the moving image. Thereby, Barcelona becomes a privileged place for the discovery of contemporary creative strategies and an opportunity for the participants to interact.
Artfutura Digital Art and Culture Festival. Founded in Barcelona in 1990, in the following years it moved to Madrid and Sevilla, coming back to Barcelona in 2001. Alongside the festival, a program of screenings of digital animation films runs since 2002 in a growing number of cities in Spain and South America.
MADATAC MADATAC (Contemporary New Media Audio-Visual Arts Festival) is a unique and innovative springboard for cutting edge experimental and new media audio-visual culture. Founded by Iury Lech in 2007, takes place in Madrid (Spain) on December within the city Mile of Art.
Sónar Sónar, Barcelona's International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art Sonar is a pioneering festival that is unique in terms of its format and content: a leading international benchmark thanks to a carefully assembled range of culture that combines entertainment with artistry, the avant garde and experimentation, featuring the most consolidated artists and trends in electronic music and their interactions and hybridisations with other genres.
SCREEN Festival The Festival program, presented in various venues throughout the city, is generated by inviting international platforms, curators and institutions to collaborate with local actors dedicated to the moving image. Thereby, Barcelona becomes a privileged place for the discovery of contemporary creative strategies and an opportunity for the participants to interact.
Visual Brazil
IVAHM New Media Arts Festival Madrid. IVAHM Festival is a project of Museum C.A.V. La Neomudéjar
Sweden
NMM (Official website) is an annual festival held in Norrköping, Sweden. The festival premiered in 2006 and focuses on an investigation of the contemporary art production, a discussion of emerging theories, a presentation of the most recent and significant research projects, and development of the relationships between art and the technology.
Turkey
amberFestival is running as an annual festival since 2007. It is the only event of its kind in Turkey since its inception takes places in İstanbul, in the second week of November. Hosted more than 200 artists and researchers with their works in the last four years.
UK
AV Festival. UK's largest electronic arts festival, featuring exhibitions, film, music and newly commissioned works. It is bi-annual and based in the three main urban centres of the North East of England, NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
onedotzero festival World's largest digital film festival that encompasses many new media projects, international events, commissioned and produced works. Based in London, with venue home at the [ICA].
Alpha-ville is the London international festival of art, creative technology and culture presenting a number of exclusives, premieres, new commissions, free events and important international debates which inspire diverse audiences and enable collaborations and cross-pollination of ideas and knowledge.
Kinetica Art Fair Annual Fair dedicated to Kinetic, Digital and New Media Art
Ukraine
Construction Festival. Audiovisual and new media art in urban space. Located in Dnipropetrovsk. The festival combines the topics which include: urban planning, social and cultural development, creative needs of the people, who lives in this postindustrial and post-USSR city. Over the course of the week in which the festival “Construction” will take place, symbolic places and public spaces of Dnipropetrovsk will host a number of events. Surprising locations will be chosen to enhance the positions of experimental, interactive art and to promote the participation of citizens in the creative process. New media will take a role of spectacular tool that reflects the flow of time at its best. The festival will be followed up by discussions, presentations and workshops with Ukrainian and foreign experts in the fields of media art, new technologies in art, and creative urbanism.
Brazil
FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is a festival of new media art organized yearly since 2000 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Multiplicidade Imagem Som inusitadosis a festival of new media art that happens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with live performances of art and technology since 2005.
Festival de Arte Digital - FAD is a festival of new media art organized yearly since 2007 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Videobrasil
Arte.Mov – Mobile Media Art Festival (2006-2012)
Besides the Screen is a conference/festival on cinema and new media held alternately in Brazil and the UK.
Argentina
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Seminario Internacional de Narrativas Hipertextuales. Is a regional and international event to discuss, shed lights, make reflections and share the latest researches in the field of Digital Arts, education with new media, interactive museology, intellectual property in the digital age, video games, robotics, transmedia stories and other manifestations of Digital Culture. The organization alternates between Uruguay and Argentina, and presents speakers from Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.
Colombia
Festival Internacional de la Imagen Manizales, Caldas.
Festival de la imagen
Mexico
TRANSITIO_MX. Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video The International Festival of New Media Art and Video Transitio_MX is the most important platform in Mexico for the expression and analysis of contemporary practices in artistic creation in electronic media and digital culture. It is a biennial festival that comprises three main activities: a symposium, an exhibition and a contest. Mexico city, Mexico.
Uruguay
Seminario Internacional de Narrativas Hipertextuales.
Chile
Bienal de Artes Mediales
Canada
Vector Festival is a Toronto festival for video game culture, contemporary art and new media.
Images Festival is the largest Canadian festival for video and media art.
New Adventures In Sound Art
FITC Design and Technology Festival.
Elektra Festival is a week-long festival that shows electronic work in Montreal, Quebec.
New Forms Festival (NFF) is an annual celebration of new media music, art and culture in Vancouver, BC
Sight & Sound is a new media festival produced by Eastern Bloc in Montreal.
FIVARS Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories
The HTMlles - Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture is an international biennial festival produced by Studio XX in Montreal, Quebec
International Digital Art Biennale
Antimatter
Alucine
Imaginenative
MediaCity Film Festival
The Works
United States
The LA Freewaves experimental new media art festival is online and in Los Angeles art venues featuring local and international artists.
IMCexpo The Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo (IMCexpo) is a new media art show and trade show in New York City (2005 IMCexpo held at the Chelsea Art Museum)
Boston Cyberarts Festival a biennial festival founded in 1999 to celebrate a long tradition of technological and artistic innovation throughout Massachusetts. The Boston Cyberarts Festival showcases artists and high-technology professionals from around the world who use new technology to advance traditional visual and performing arts disciplines.
New Media Film Festival an annual festival held at the Los Angeles Film School honors stories worth telling offering distribution opportunities and awards.
New York Electronic Arts Festival A biennial festival on Governor's Island in New York City.
The VIA Festival is Pittsburgh's largest annual celebration of digital culture. In 2012, the week's program showcased dozens of artists from around the world in multiple bars, clubs, galleries, and pop-up venues, including a large run-down bank that volunteers converted into an event space.
01SJ Biennial – The ZERO1 Biennial, distributed throughout Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area, is North America’s most significant and comprehensive showcase of work at the nexus of art and technology.
Life Art Science Tech (LAST) festival – blends a science symposium on the disciplines that are shaping the 21st century (Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Neuroscience, Nanotech, Space Exploration, etc.) with an expo of digital interactive art, and live performances, a blend that aims at representing the multifaceted creativity of the San Francisco Bay Area http://lastfestival.org
CURRENTS New Media is an annual new media festival with free admission, takes place every June in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA.
The CREATE Festival is a Creative Industries festival celebrating the intersections of creativity and innovation in Pittsburgh, PA
Digital Graffiti is a digital and interactive art festival held in Alys Beach, Florida. Bringing together technology, architecture and art, Digital Graffiti features artists from around the world.
Australia
Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival
Electrofringe is a festival of digital, electronic and new media arts.
Experimenta - Biennal of Media Art, established in 1986 and based in Melbourne, is an Australian festival located at the intersection of creativity and technology and exhibits Australian as well international media art.
BEAP
Women Media and Arts Film Festival
Maroochy Festival
Adelaide Festival
SALA
Castlemaine State festival
Darwin Festival
Penola Coonawarra Arts Festival, South Australia
