translated from Spanish: Chilean artists participate in prestigious festival of art and technology world

exhibitions, performances, symposiums and interventions give life – since 1979 -the art and technology Ars Electronica Festival, event that every year goes beyond the confines of the Conference rooms and takes its contents to the public sphere, through the urban landscape, reaching figures that in 2017 rounded an attendance of more than 100,000 visitors in five days, with more than 600 individual events and 1,024 artists, scientists and activists from 42 countries.
This year, for the first time, the Ministry of culture, arts and heritage, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ars Electronica developed a joint call to determine five projects starting this Thursday 6 they are representing to our country in the event that extends to 10 September in the city of Linz, Austria.
“In the last decade have multiplied the invitations to meetings and festivals of various kinds and specificity, clear signal that our media and new media artists are having a strong presence.” In that sense, be part of an exhibition at Ars Electronica is an important step, for the relevance of the festival but also about the impact of this in this field at the international level. Without a doubt, this interagency effort power our actions public in culture, strengthens our cultural policies and gives us the possibility of thinking in a strategy together with the areas of Visuality, to internationalize and project our “artists and various agents in this field”, says the Minister of culture, arts and heritage, Consuelo Valdés.
Under the theme “ERROR. “The Art of Imperfection”, among the 34 projects national postulates were selected “Access”, the artist Nani Gutierrez; “The Water Résistances Laboratory”Toboggans”, by Claudia González;” Glories”, Christopher CEA; “Inacurrate Collaborations”, Cristobal Valenzuela; and “Defective Apparatus”, Roy Macdonald.
Ars Electronica is an international festival of art, technology and society, focusing on electronic art and media theory. For more than three decades, this world-renowned event has provided an annual setting for artistic and scientific encounters with social and cultural phenomena that are the result of technological change.
The highest points of the festival include Cyber Arts Exhibition; Ars Electronic Prix Award Ceremony, where Leonardo, will hand over a special award to the magazine of art and science for its 50 years of history. This will be received by Roger Malina, who will be present at the seminar on art and science organized by the Chilean Corporation of Video on 19 and 20 October, and with the collaboration of the Ministry of cultures. You will also receive the award Nina Czegledy, invited by the new media area to give a lecture in Chile on 30 and 31 October.
In addition, this Sunday (September 9) will be held a round table where converse the different Chilean artists present at the festival, around his experience and lines of work and work.
Curatorial framework of the festival: ERROR. The Art of Imperfection would when a mistake becomes a bug, a failure and making it the famous fountain of ideas and unprecedented inventions? When a mistake is an oversight, and when is a deliberate hoax, a fake? A mistake is a discrepancy in what we hope, a deviation from the norm… but what is the norm and who makes it? An error does not have to be a mistake; It can be an opportunity!

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