The International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) is a major exhibition featuring vernissages and special events, which takes you on an artistic journey dedicated to digital art, by bringing together Montréal's leading contemporary creation spaces. This second edition, to be held from May 1 to June 19, 2014, is dedicated to the theme of PHYSICAL/ITÉ. The works presented intensify the multisensory experience of the body, explore its hidden or forgotten potentiality and question the tension or harmony between perception and cognition to generate an intimate dialogue between fact and fiction. The BIAN is part of the Printemps Numérique 2014, an initiative of the Conférence régionale des élus (CRÉ) de Montréal.
go to: BIAN website
A dual support for digital art is organised in French Speaking Community of Belgium :
On one hand, two "digital arts" organisations are financially supported (Transcultures in Mons and Imal in Brussels) in order to welcome artists, produce and promote digital art.
On the other hand, artists and organisation living in French Speaking Community of Belgium (Brussels Wallonia) may submit their projects for "numeric art works" projects all year long. Four kind of grants are proposed:
- conception (up to 5.000 euros) and production (up to 25.000 euros) grants
- promotion and distribution grants (up to 4.000 euros)
- grant for "events" (festival, exhibition, workshops,...)
With a total amount of 176.500 euros in 2009
The requests are submitted to a specific board composed of professionals (among them, artists, teachers and producers,..) who then make financial proposals to the Minister of Culture. This board is also requested to advise the Minister in the field of digital arts.
The art works taken into account must be interactive, and present innovation aspects.
go to: Commission Arts numériques de la Communauté française de Belgique website
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