Electric Fields is a biennial festival dedicated to the presentation of new and significant performance and installation works created at the crossroads of art, science and technology. Started in 2003 as a collaboration between Galerie SAW Gallery and SAW Video, Electric Fields is now in its third edition. The festival strives to bring a snapshot of the most innovative Canadian and international electronic art, from music performance to installation, to the nation’s capital, and this year we hope to raise the bar for not only the festival but for the city itself.
This year also marks a significant rebirth of Electric Fields. With the general direction of the festival now within Artengine, we strove to foster a network of organizations enabling us to bring Ottawa-Gatineau a unique experience on the scale that these artists deserve.
This collaboration of art institutions, media art production centers, film presenters and promoter/DJs, as well as other festivals, demonstrates the importance of the intersection of art and technology. Each of them have already expanded beyond the traditional definitions of the discipline at the heart of their organizations, presenting visual art that is no longer just visual, music that is not really music, club nights that are not just a party or video and film that has little to do with tape, glass tubes or celluloid. This messy spill-over between disciplines is almost always a given when artists creatively engage with technology, and what Electric Fields does is highlight and coordinate the spill-over to create an audience experience that is at once fragmented and seamless.
We are delighted at the collaborations that enabled this festival to grow to the size it should be, and want to thank everyone who helped make this happen. We hope that the experience for you, the audience, is as fun and rich as it has been for us here at Artengine.
