[Stand 2018]
TRANSMEDIA FESTIVALS // Research in progress
CTM Berlin
CTM is an international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, and a diverse range of artistic activities related to sound. Since 1999 it takes place in Berlin cooperatively with the transmediale festival.
Heart of Noise
Innsbrucker Festival, das vor allem musikalische Perspektiven elektronischer und experimenteller Musik der Gegenwart zeigt
HTMlles – Montreal.Canada
feminist technological exploration, creation and critique
ICAS Festival
A festival of festivals – 2015 only
Multiplace – Bratislava.Slovakia
Festival for Postdigital Survivors
NODE
Forum for Digital Arts Frankfurt a.M.
Elevate Festival
Unique combination of critical poltical discourse, activism and contemporary music. Annual Festival in Graz, Austria since 2005. End of October, changing in 2017 to March.
Next Festival
Founded 2000 in Bratislava, the NEXT Festival of advanced music is an annual celebration of exploratory music and sound art: from electronic experimentation and freeform improvisation to audiovisual projects, it brings together artists who push the boundaries of music. Annual, end of November.
Atonal Festival
Contemporary electronic music & visual arts festival in Berlin. Started 1982-1990 and was reanimated in 2013. Annual, August.
Ars Electronica Festival
Festival for art, technology, society. Since 1979 in Linz, Austria.
Unsafe and Sounds Festival
Experimental music and arts festival in Vienna, Austria since 2014.
donaufestival
Avantgarde Festival for experimental music & performance: redefining arts. Krems, Austria since 1988 and reinvented in 2005, and continuing with a new curator in 2017.
Maerz Musik
Festival for time issues, is a festival of the Berliner Festspiele. It started as the Berlin Music-Biennale in 1967 and was reinvented in 2002 as a festival for new music, which presented new music but also experimental, electronic and new media approaches. In 2014 it was reformulated by a new curator who wants to merge music, art, theory and reflexion under the perspective of time.
Norberg Festival
Festival for electronic music and sound art around Norberg, Sweden in an abondend mining area since 2001.
Rokolectiv Festival
Festival for electronic music and related arts. Bukarest, Romania since 2005. Annual, end of April.
Unsound Festival
Festival for electronic and experimental music. Krakow, Poland since 2003. Annual, middle/ end of October.
L.E.V. Festival
Laboratory for electronic music and visual art. Gijon, Spain since 2007.
Sonic Acts Festival
Festival for noise music with a focus on contemporary and historical developments at the intersections of art, technology, music and science. Amsterdam, Holland since 1994. Biennal, end of february.
MIRA Festival
Digital arts festival focused on the intersection between electronic music and live visuals. Barcelona Spain, since 2011. In 2016 they started a second edition in Berlin.
Heroines of Sound Festival
Berlin based Festival presenting female pioneers and women of the current electronic music scene, crossing bridges between genres.
3hd Festival
Festival for music, performance, and contemporary art based in Berlin. Asking questions about politics, community, economic uncertainty, and communication.
Seanaps Festival
Kein Mensch ist eine Insel. Musik, Kunst, Ideen. Neues Festival in Leipzig (September). Ongoing Blogchain Experiment.
Cynetart Festival
Internationale Festival für transmediale Kunst & Projekte: „Enlightenment for the nerd“. Medienkunst, Tanz und Musikfestival in Dresden, dass jährlich im November seit 1999 stattfindet.
Fast Forward Festival/ Plan C Blog
UK Festival, Blog und Cluster für Aktivismus.
TIMES UP
Art Collective based in Linz, Austria.
ACADEMIA
ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics Get the Manifesto via Critical Legal Thinking
Academic journal for pop music
Magazin für Gegenwartskunst aus Wien/ Academic journal for contemporary art from Vienna
Academic Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.
IASPM D-A-CH
German-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
