Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 8: Tooling Era (2000s)
2000
FILE Festival Showcases Regional Digital Art
Founded in 2000 by Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto to exhibit the diversity of media art in the region, South America’s largest art and technology festival has operated annually since 2000. This free festival provides a platform for artists to present their work and receive awards while allowing audience members to immerse themselves in the latest developments in digital art.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Paula Perissinotto, Ricardo Barreto
Movements
digital art, New Media Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- access, awards, digital art, exhibitions, festivals, New Media Art, Technology and Art
- People
- Paula Perissinotto, Ricardo Barreto
- Works
- Art and Technology
- Organisations
- FILE Festival
- Places
- Brazil, South America, São Paulo
Echoes across time
- 1985 · Duality and Co-Existence Exhibition, London
- 1986 · Art ware: Kunst und Elektronik at Messe AG and Siemens AG, Hannover, Germany
- 1979 · The First ARS ELECTRONICA Festival Takes Place in Linz, Austria
Le Random editorials
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 8—Tooling Era (2000s) with Christiane Paul, Casey Reas, Christa Sommerer & Golan Levin — listen with transcript on Le Random (15 May 2024, 64 min). Chapter 8’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify