Organized for the third time this year, the Istanbul Digital Art Festival (IDAF) starts on June 2 at Atatürk Cultural Center. Organized by Mezo Digital with the support of the TR Ministry of Culture and Tourism, under the main sponsorship of PASHA Bank, the Istanbul Digital Art Festival is preparing to open its doors for the third time. The festival, which will take place at AKM between June 2-5, will host important names in the field of digital arts, a total of 40 national and international artists. Artists will show that science, technology and art can intersect with their works at the festival, and will discuss how the boundaries between these phenomena can melt and evolve into new ways. they will contribute.
The Istanbul Digital Art Festival, which will be hosted by One Night Gallery in Romania, will take art lovers on a journey into the magical world of the digital world for 4 days.
Leading names of digital art will meet at IDAF
In the festival curated by Esra Özkan, Julie Walsh and Avind, Turkey's first artificial intelligence curator; H. Pars Polat , Muse VR, Cem Sonel, Eduardo Kac, Soliman Lopez, Tamiko Thiel, İrem Buğdaycı, Kobi Walsh, Ozruh (Levent Özruh, Sara Martinez Zamora, Evan Preuss, Isaac, Palmiere Szabo, Elise Wehowski), Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer, Nergiz Yeşil, Ahmet R. Ekici & Hakan Sorar, Balkan Karisman, Burak Dirgen, Ecem Dilan Köse, RAW, Özcan Saraç, Zeynep Nal, Hakan Yılmaz, Varol Topaç, Uğur Emergency, XR Month, Farhad Farzaliyev and Azerbaijani artificial intelligence artist Susha will be featured.
Unlike other exhibitions, the festival will bring together works that would not normally be seen side by side and perhaps unimaginable. The festival, which will encourage art lovers to think about the relationship between different disciplines, will thus seek the answers to what kind of contributions different disciplines can make to each other.
Open to everyone and free
In addition to audio and visual performances at the festival; Panels and workshops will be held on many topics such as artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, bioart and 6G technologies. Mezo Digital Chairman of the Board and Digital Transformation Specialist Dr. Regarding the festival, Nabat Garakhanova said, "Istanbul Digital Art Festival, which we have brought to life for the first time in 2021, is celebrating its third anniversary this year. We are very happy to be instrumental in bringing the digital world together with art, and to turn this meeting into a festival and reach everyone. This year, we have prepared a festival where art lovers from almost every age group will enjoy their time and rediscover the digital world. We invite everyone to meet the unique world of digital art.”