Istanbul Digital Art Festival kicks off

Istanbul Digital Art Festival kicks off

Türkiye's sole digital art festival invites art enthusiasts to experience a diverse range of digital art exhibitions and events

By Seda Sevencan

ISTANBUL (AA) - The third edition of the Istanbul Digital Art Festival (IDAF) kicked off Thursday.

Organized by Mezo Digital with the support of Türkiye's Ministry of Culture and Tourism and sponsored by PASHA Bank, Türkiye's sole digital art festival will open its doors to art lovers at Ataturk Cultural Center between June 2-5.

Speaking at the opening event, Türkiye's Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister Ozgul Ozkan Yavuz said the world is swiftly digitizing, and art, like all aspects of life, is not exempt from this reality.

"Especially during the global pandemic period, this process has accelerated even further, and the digital realm has increasingly become a new platform for the presentation of art, while also profoundly affecting the content, language, and style of art,” Yavuz said.

Yavuz noted that digital art expands their horizons by facilitating artists' collaboration with fields such as science and technology.

"It also makes the interaction of art with different disciplines even more possible. Thus, extremely striking and mind-opening works emerge.”

The event will feature artists from various countries, including Azerbaijani artificial intelligence artist Shusha, whose name is inspired by the Azerbaijani city of Shusha. It is being curated by Avind, Türkiye's first artificial intelligence curator, along with Julie Walsh and Esra Ozkan.

It will be organized based on questions asked about digital art and will feature kinetic art, bio-art, algorithmic art and different areas of new media.

The festival will also showcase quality artwork by international artists, emphasizing the potential of digital art to bridge cultural diversity and bring people together.

It will also feature workshops and panels that cover diverse subjects such as NFT developments, the influence of bio-art and bio-design on the future, the impact of robotics and software on art, and artificial intelligence and emerging artificial algorithms.

“Unlike other exhibitions, the festival will bring together works that would not normally come together and seek what kind of contributions different disciplines can make to each other. Thus, it will encourage the audience to think about the relationship between different disciplines,” according to the festival.

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