Review of FILE SAO PAULO 2008 Festival by Giles Askham.

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Featuring:
Memories - Anaisa Franco
Full Body Games - Jonah Warren and Steven Sanborn
Levelhead - Julian Oliver
The Scalable City - Sheldon Brown
L.A.S.E.R Tag - Graffiti Research Lab

FILE Sao Paulo, Electronic Language International Festival, which took place in Brazil this August is subtitled Two Thousand and Eight Million Pixels. A heading that references the vast resolutions made possible by the 4K digital projection systems that were used to show cinematic work at the festival this year, and forming one of the main themes of the show. Other categories set up in an impressively produced catalogue that accompanied the show included; installations, game art, media art and performance. Works under these categories were exhibited alongside games, and the projects of commercial exhibitors to produce an energetic, rag-tag collection; that was constantly bursting out of the curatorial confines that these groupings defined.

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Memories by Anaisa Franco

In it's ninth year, and continuing to expand into other cities around Brazil, FILE offers a particularly south American perspective on the global phenomena that is media art, bringing together artists from Brazil and Argentina, as well as from Japan, North America and Europe. The opportunities for debate and discussion with people of similar interests as well as the camaraderie of working together to put on a show are what made the event particularly memorable for me on a personal level, and also (I hope) helped develop my understanding of Brazilian culture.

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LevelHead by Julian Oliver

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