Digital Muddy Expanded Media Festival is designed to be an online platform that promotes interaction and cultural discussion with a focus on the terms related to expanded cinema; social media, and net based contemporary art practice.
Digital Muddy’s selected works represent a survey of various styles and practices that engage the expanding use of image and in specific screen based digital narrative. This year we are focusing on net-specific published works and browser-based works that may loosely be defined in terms of application/game engine, web-based, and abstraction.
All the works expanded the notion of cinema, and or media as each expand the traditional cinematic experience and or ways to develop character, space, and narrative. Many of the works are narrative based, each of the works deal with how we participate in that juncture between, culture and technology as a human experience. This includes mass media, politics, emotions, identity, and our personal experience.
2016 Juror
Cultural producer, Michele Thursz, juror.
Curatorial Statement
In the position of Juror, I thought about the terms of curatorial process, here I found conflict in the duty of these titles Juror, and Curator vs. Exhibition and
Festival.
I thought of creating an open call for a thematic online exhibition, but then I thought, why a festival If an online exhibition?
Digital Muddy festival was born out of The Muddy Film Festival. I asked myself what happened that there was a need for a new entity rather than just adding a new category to the existing festival. Basically it was because of presentation. Traditionally film festivals are screened in a cinematic setting; here the new category Digital was just to broad a category and many of the works were not made for just presentation. This all sounds very simple, but really not.
I see www.digitalmuddy.com as a publication. The publication is user friendly, and the information can be viewed, individually or collectively. The festival will continue to expand adding dimension to the terms, perspectives, and most definitely positions where these works, practices can be seen and further explored. One could also refer to the site as instructional for installation or presentation.

My objective as a curator is to pursue information as a survey; that can be structured as theme or narrative. It is my sincere intention for you to expand upon my findings. My criteria for these selected works were based on artist objective, craft, and experimentation with the uses of both new and traditional mediums, concept,
and process.
2016 Artists
Shane Csontos-Popko, Nicholas DiMichele, Ian Flitman, Mathew Galindo, Curry Gradecki, Belinda Haikes, Tatiana Istomiana, Patrick Lichty, Alex Randall, Carlo Zanni