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With festival season around the corner, it’s safe to say that people have been anticipating the exciting events for months or even a year. While music festivals may take over your social media feeds, other similarly focused events occur year round. These days conferences for those involved in the creative or digital landscape are marketed as festivals — with A-list line ups, innovative demonstrations, extravagant displays, but also opportunities to expand knowledge of the latest industry trends, groundbreaking artists, and other developments in digital arts topics such as design, animation, and engineering.
The buzz around digital art will only grow as impressive displays of creative technology continue to attract and entertain casual audiences. If you’re into digital art, make sure to check out these events:
Adobe Max
Adobe Creative Suite users rejoice! This 3-day conference brings together the most creative and innovative minds from everywhere. Taking place in Los Angeles, CA, the festival highlights creative use of applications within the Adobe Creative suites as well as demonstrations of new Adobe software and other new features. This conference is a must for aspiring professionals looking to sharpen their skills in fields such as film, graphic design, or video production.
SXSW
South by Southwest, or SXSW, is a multifaceted event that acts as both a conference and a music festival. The conference congregates professionals from different industries to Austin, TX and offers keynotes and sessions from leaders in entrepreneurship, tech, gaming, design, and more. There are also a variety of art exhibitions such as SXSW’s art program and VR Cinema.
OFFSET
Every year,this conference brings over 2,500 creative students and professionals that want to gain valuable industry knowledge to Dublin, Ireland. Thought leaders in the design and creative space curate sessions where attendees can enhance their knowledge through masterclasses, workshops, keynote speeches, and more.
NODE Forum for Digital Arts
The NODE Forum for Digital Arts is a biennial event that has an emphasis on coding. Attendees can view amazing exhibitions of creative code and digital art. This week-long festival also offers its guests a variety of workshops that center on creative coding all while celebrating arts, culture, and the best of creative technology.
SIGGRAPH
There’s only one place where digital storytellers commune and that’s SIGGRAPH. Anyone from producers, animators, educators, artists and designers, gamers, and engineers flock to this event to get updated on the latest in everything related to computer graphics. To further collaboration in interdisciplinary industries, SIGGRAPH invites attendees to learn, create, discover, and connect with peers in and outside their respective industries. SIGGRAPH exhibits a stunning collection of interactive pieces and encourages new artists to display their work.
Want to learn more about other creative technology subjects? Sign up for the courses below to pick up new skills and expand your knowledge:
Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow
Kadenze Academy
Creating and Capturing Mixed Reality
Pacific Northwest College of Art