THE EVENT WILL BE HELD AT OI FUTURO, IN RIO DE JANEIRO, STARTING NOVEMBER 5TH, SPONSORED BY OI
THOSE INTERESTED SHOULD APPLY BY OCTOBER 10TH, USING THE APPLICATION FORM AVAILABLE ON THE EVENT'S WEBSITE

Held in 2018, the Biennial of Digital Art Festival (FAD) returns in 2022 for its second edition. A success with about 70,000 visitors in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, this time it will take place only in the city of Rio de Janeiro between November 5, 2022, and January 22, 2023, at Oi Futuro, in Flamengo. The event is sponsored by Oi, with incentives from the Department of Culture and Creative Economy and the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Oi Futuro organizes the event.

With free submissions until October 10th under the theme CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE, professionals from various areas, Brazilians or internationals, artists, creators, producers or artistic collectives can participate. In a hybrid format, with in-person and digital exhibitions, the Biennial will prioritize more sustainable models with works that include creative and scientific areas, as long as they work within the new media segment and have as a result art and culture in transversality with other fields and sciences. Audiovisual works will be accepted in the form of screens, displays, applications in augmented reality, virtual reality, metaverses, and events and actions in virtual models exclusively.

The purpose of the selection process is to democratize and broaden access to digital production, to reflect on creative, artistic, and intellectual production, and to promote the dissemination of digital culture, in addition to establishing relationships with new producers and national and international artists.

The works will be submitted in the categories of performances (audiovisual projects dedicated to authorial artistic presentation); gallery (audiovisual installations of technological art, and works that develop conceptual, creative, and artistic content allied to technology, be it digital, analog, or hybrid, and that may propose the interaction of the audience/user); interactive public interventions (technology-based works that intervene, occupy, use and remain with conceptual, creative and artistic content in urban space); laboratory (short-term workshops with free themes) and international symposium (lectures, panels, presentation of studies, scientific and conceptual essays, research results, which may be of the theoretical aspect of technical practices).

People over 18 years old are eligible to apply. The complete call for papers, the FAQ, and the application form are available on the biennial website (www.bienalartedigital.com)
For questions, the channel is the Discord platform at https://discord.gg/JgCf6DVs9u in which the Biennial Digital Art community was created.

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/festivalfad/

The theme: Conditions of Existence
The second edition of the Biennial of Digital Art aims to reflect on our conditions of existing in the world. Inserted in a time where 'Hybrid Languages' - the theme of the first Biennale - are a reality, how do we live with technology in a completely digital world?
In his text introducing the Biennial of Digital Art, Tadeus Mucelli, artistic curator and creator of the Digital Art Festival, explains: "a biennial is like a book that, through chapters, we try to give voice to narratives and visions, ways of 'being' and 'seeing' in the world with sentient things. And when we say 'things' we are including a digital ontology (of life) in the intersection or overlapping the human ontology (of being in the world). Where forms, processes, and ways of existing coexist almost omnipresently with what we understand as 'sentient', in an approach beyond bioorganic and biotechnological. A more holistic look that considers the third parts (algorithms, intelligent computing, digital forms of 'life') very present in our daily lives.

If we treat "Hybrid Languages" as the impossible separation between art, science, and technology, producers of tools capable of producing new realities, and new life experiences, in CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE we seek to understand, think, and propose the forms of COEXISTENCE.

How to coexist, 'live, 'be' in the dimension of a biotechnological and post-digital world?
The questioning is comprehensive when one realizes that existence takes place from different and multiple perspectives. The perspectives of 'how to exist' and its 'conditions' are, in a way, an infinite exercise of the very way of perceiving and living the world. A look toward coexistence.
Existence, coexistence. Conditions of existence.
What forms of existence are possible in our present?
What are the human conditions facing the technical and digital world?
How inserted are we for a digital ontology of life that redirects the human sense of being and living?
In the advance of biotechnological and digital societies, where do we coexist?

Art, science, and technology are rich fields of knowledge and human production. Above all, they are places of our existence and produce forms and senses of living. We are immensely diverse if we consider that the conditions of existence escalate from geography, politics, economy, cultures and customs, and mentalities.
But in the approach of a world inhabited by data, information, artificial intelligence, intelligent machines, and biocybrid relations we are in a much more complex web of 'being in the world’. The digital humanities, as a field of study, have been trying to mitigate the effects of this and enhance our ways of dealing with forms of existing and operating in the digital, for example.
In its second edition, the Biennial of Digital Art seeks propositions for adversities, but also in the midst of the potentialities of the conditions of existence, artistic-scientific works with the use of digital technologies in the most diverse forms of expression such as speeches, texts, images, audiovisual and virtual forms, as well as diverse doings that can integrate an important chapter of our artistic, intellectual, social, and political production at this moment".

BIENNIAL OF DIGITAL ART
Held in 2018 in Rio and Belo Horizonte with an audience of over 70,000 people, the Digital Art Biennial was promoted by FAD, with sponsorship from Oi and cultural support from Oi Futuro. The program had artists from Brazil, Chile, China, Spain, the United States, Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, presenting exhibitions, performances, and symposiums under the theme "Hybrid Languages". The Biennial's proposal is to become a national digital art agenda and to show every two years works and exhibitions that reflect important social themes, showing that art enables technology to display its social experiences.
Oi FUTURO:
Oi Futuro, Oi's institute for innovation and creativity, acts as a laboratory for the co-creation of transformative projects in the areas of Education and Culture. Through initiatives and partnerships all over Brazil, we stimulate the potential of individuals and networks to build a more inclusive and diverse today. For 17 years, Oi Futuro has maintained a cultural center in Rio de Janeiro, with a program that values the convergence between contemporary art and technology. The space also houses Musehum - Museum of Communications and Humanities, with a collection of over 130 thousand pieces. For 18 years Oi Futuro has managed the Oi Cultural Sponsorship Program, which selects projects in all the regions of the country through a public call for proposals. Since 2003, more than 2,500 cultural projects were supported by Oi Futuro, which benefited millions of spectators.

INFORMATION
2nd Biennial of Digital Art Festival (FAD)
Rio de Janeiro - November 5th, 2022 to January 22nd, 2023 - Oi Futuro Flamengo
Submissions:
Until October 10, 2022, via digital form at: www.bienalartedigital.com
Questions in the Discord community at https://discord.gg/JgCf6DVs9u