The impact on the arts of the technological age gets centre stage in November with Melbourne’s first digital festival – ‘Pause’.

“Pause Fest is about the new, innovative, interactive, exciting, creative and contemporary.
The week-long festival will start with small events, exhibitions, projections, open studios, installations, product launches and interactive projects dispersed through the city and it will culminate in one grand and exciting ‘exhibition’.

Pause Fest is a gathering of passionate, creative souls where they can connect with each other and with the world’s top talent. We welcome creatives from all fields, companies and agencies that embrace art+innovation and the general public.”

Here are just some of the artists with a foot in the festival door: Tokyoplastic (animation), Breeder (underground design), Richard De Souza (installation/motion graphics), Lumbre (TVC)
Yu Fujii (VFX), Netzer Alima (VJ Netzair) and many more local and international.

With this event we get to step into the current status of digital arts and say “why, hello there!”
The future of the technological creative will continue to power on during the 21st century, with the mediums of old taking a cordial step to the side (definitely not one to the back) as the artists in Pause engage the mediums of the future.

With massive sponsors and partners in Pause including IdN Magazine, HAHA Industry, Rancho Notorious Gallery, Motionographer, ACMI, Soundcloud, Vimeo and Swinburne and RMIT Universities, this is one fully stocked festival!

Evolving along with technology are the artists, taking to the digital life like … that old proverb – so come get amongst it, there is plenty for all and plenty of time to make the date, as the festival is a wonderful week long event!

For a detailed program see HERE

Who: Tokyoplastic, Breeder, Richard De Souza, Lumbre, Yu Fujii,Netzer Alima and many more
What: Pause Digital Festival
Where: Various venues across Melbourne CBD
When: 7th – 13th November 2011

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