August 17, 2015
AN IMPRESSIVE LINE-UP OF INTERNATIONAL, INTERACTIVE ART
October 5 — October 11, 2015, Downtown Titusville will once again become Art & Algorithms Digital Arts Festival.
A central ‘Village’ houses ‘galleries’ created specifically to present the digital exhibits. Art/interactive Courtyards create additional meet-up spaces where art and interaction occurs, and Titusville Playhouse’s 2nd Stage creates the perfect venue for the international short films festival showings. Read More:
Central to the festival are the curated gathering places where attendees interact with the digital art and with those who have created it.
July 6, 2015
DIGITAL ARTS POWER UP IN TITUSVILLE FOR OCTOBER 2015 ART & ALGORITHMS
On Florida’s Space Coast — Monday, October 5 through Sunday, October 11, Downtown Titusville will once again become a Digital Arts Festival, when it showcases Art & Algorithms, 7-days of interactive galleries, short films, artist interactions and hands-on fun in Titusville’s Digital Downtown Village on Florida’s Space Coast.
Art & Algorithms 3 features international digital arts, professional and student work, international artist interactions in the galleries and in special sessions, amazing exhibits, some DIY art options and includes special family events.
Clifton Stewart returns to the Space Coast bringing a curated film festival and an international sensibility to the film selections and has some special endearing film surprises for families.
Central to the festival are the curated gathering places where attendees interact with the digital art and with those who have created it. A central ‘Village’ houses ‘galleries’ created specifically to present the digital exhibits, but the places and the digital art spaces don’t stop there… including Courtyards which create additional meet-up spaces where art and interaction occurs, and Titusville Playhouse’s 2nd Stage which creates the perfect venue for intimate showings of award winning short films to artist special interactions. Each one a special event. Venues also include the iPad Lab and a DIY creative space.
On Friday and Saturday, Art & Algorithms brings together the community and visitors with contemporaries in international digital arts within an interactive street party atmosphere. Special guests provide inspiration and entertainment that is digitally and dramatically exciting, while keeping in mind our desire to get involved with the art and those who create it. All walkable. FREE ADMISSION this year, brought to you by Greater Titusville Renaissance, Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce, The City of Titusville, Brevard Cultural Alliance and the Space Coast Office of Tourism, along with educators, educational partners and many community sponsors. Get your Art On: October 5-11, 2015 in Digital Downtown Titusville.
August 25, 2014
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS WORLD-WIDE WINNERS AT ART & ALGORITHMS
The International Short Film Festival, a festival within a festival at Art & Algorithms is a selection of films that have won awards at other competitions. Festival-goers can choose from eight different “blocks” of films (each about 2 hours long) featuring everything from political thrillers from Argentina to a pensioner struggling to send a txt in New Zealand, to surreal fantasies from France to a German World War Two comedy.
Curator Clifton Stewart, University of Coventry (UK) has chosen selections that will entertain and challenge our audiences. Art & Algorithms is bringing sixty films from twenty-six countries, including comedies, animations, action and romance—from the cycle of life in two minutes to a Spanish 24-minute sci-fi horror—and almost everything in-between.
Complementing the film program, Art & Algorithms is also showcasing local and international emerging filmmaker talent with a joint screening of student work from the University of Central Florida and Coventry University on Monday, Oct. 6 at 7 pm.
Also, Art & Algorithms is hosting the culmination of an exciting program, provided by a National Endowment for the Arts grant to the Brevard Cultural Alliance, integrating art and technology into communities. Selected students from Brevard County Schools formed production teams and created short documentaries. The selected documentaries will be featured as a red carpet premier event at Art & Algorithms 2 on Thursday, October 9th at 5:30 pm. This and other programs of BCA incorporate the instruction by professional digital and media artists into Brevard schools to enhance curriculum, teach 21st century skills, and foster technology literacy in creative and meaningful ways.
A full schedule for the entire festival is available at EVENTS with complete descriptions of all the films available in each of the blocks.
June 1, 2014
DIGITAL ARTS POWER UP IN TITUSVILLE FOR OCTOBER 2014 FESTIVAL, ART & ALGORITHMS 2
Friday, October 3 through Sunday, October 12, 2014, downtown Titusville will once again become a Digital Arts Festival, when it showcases Art & Algorithms 2, 10 days of interactive galleries, dramatic 3-D spectacle, award-winning international short films, and hands-on fun in Titusville’s Digital Downtown on Florida’s Space Coast.
The goal of the festival is simple and ambitious: to celebrate art in the digital domain with work that entertains and educates but will, above all, take your breath away.
Art & Algorithms 2 — With international films, spectacular 3-D animation projection, and a featured digital artist from the U.K., the festival will bring together contemporaries in international digital arts from U.S. and Europe within an interactive street party atmosphere. Artists Nathan Selikoff, David Montgomery, Mark Franz and the creative Ninjaneer Studios will return from the inaugural Art & Algorithms with new and exciting digital work. Highlights of the festival include:
- Our featured artist from the U.K., Andrew Brooks is known for monumental fantasy landscapes created from many mega-resolution digital images that have been described as having “a touch of the cosmic in lots of the fantastical panoramas”.
- 3-D DIGITAL MAPPING– Action-packed, larger than life projection is the anchor entertainment during the opening and closing weekends of the festival. Imagine a large scale, three dimensional video on the side of a building in downtown Titusville.
- An International Film Festival, award-winning digital short films from across the world will be playing at Titusville Playhouse.
- Digital Artists will display digital work on large screens. Several exhibiting artists will be on site to answer questions or intrigue festival goers with their concepts and processes.
- Dr. Gary Zabel of the Virtual Art Initiative in Boston, will be showcasing works from artists Bryn Oh, Glyph Graves, Andrew Burrell, Aequitas, and Mary Linley. Zabel and his colleagues create interactive art in places like Second Life, interacting with each other through avatars.
- Clifton Stewart returns to the Space Coast not only the curator of the film festival, but also with an exhibition of stunning digital photography that will reflect his impressions of last year.
- Hands-on interactive activities include special demonstrations by guest artists, international artist interactions, and surprise street art.
The Art & Algorithms festival highlights creative works at the intersection of art and technology and appeals to a wide range of audience members, from Generation X, Y and Z to artists, engineers and other high-tech talent in Central Florida. Targeted to attract digital creators and technology explorers, as well as international visitors, teachers and their students, the festival hopes to help inspire youth in areas of science, technology, engineering, digital arts and math.
New this year is an exciting program provided by a National Endowment for the Arts grant to the Brevard Cultural Alliance, integrating art and technology into communities. Selected students from Brevard County Schools are forming production teams to create short documentaries. The selected documentaries will be featured as part of the Film Festival – and as a red carpet premier event at Art & Algorithms 2 in October. This and other programs of BCA incorporate the instruction by professional digital and media artists into Brevard schools to enhance curriculum, teach 21st century skills, and foster technology literacy in creative and meaningful ways.
Titusville, Florida is a fitting place for Art & Algorithms digital arts festival, with a population rich in creative talent. This is where men and women have ventured into space, catapulting new technologies that continue to improve our lives on Earth.
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April 17, 2014
Brevard Cultural Alliance Announces Call for Student Video Production Teams in North Brevard
MELBOURNE, FL (April 17, 2014) – Brevard Cultural Alliance (BCA) is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for the “Telling Your Story” program from North Brevard high school students ages 14-18. Students will create video documentaries through their cell phones tied to social, cultural, political and/or environmental concerns, enabling students to become agents of change within their community. Interested students must attend either Astronaut, Space Coast or Titusville High Schools and are asked to complete a short application, which includes a brief synopsis of the story they’d like to tell.
The application is available to download at http://www.artsbrevard.org/programs-and-grants/for-educators/telling-your-story.html.
Submissions are due April 30 and will be reviewed by a committee comprised of BCA staff and Telling Your Story residency artists. Once participating youth are selected, they will work directly with residency artists to turn their visions into documentaries that will be featured at an October 2014 red carpet event at the 2nd Annual Art and Algorithms Digital Art Festival in Titusville.
March 26, 2014
Teaching Artist Residency at Stone Middle School
(From Nathan Selikoff’s Blog)
Over the last few weeks, I spent 6 days with about 200 students at Stone Middle School in Melbourne, Florida, teaching them the basics of making art with code.
On the first day, I introduced the concept of “computational creation,” or “creative coding,” to the students, along with a discussion about using a sketchbook / design notebook in the creative process. We used Scratch, a free programming environment developed at MIT that is great for teaching beginning programming concepts. It’s a “visual programming language,” one that consists of blocks of functionality that you can snap together almost like LEGOs to construct programs… (read the whole blog post)