Upgrade! Paris: Alain Thibault :: March 17, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Point Ephemere, 200 quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris.

Alain Thibault will present Elektra festival and will talk about the diffusion of digital arts with Anne Laforet. Elektra, a Montreal-based cultural initiative, presents artists and works of art that align the latest electronic music and visual creations derived from new technologies (animation, installation and robotics). Elektra unites creative media like music, video, cinema, design, gaming and audio or interactive installation with the latest digital technologies. Artists from all disciplines – composition, performance, dance, visual arts, etc. – all with a common interest in artistic applications of new technologies, uniting visual and sound. Elektra not only welcomes artists from all over the world, the festival also features local talents, helping make Montreal the North American meeting place for digital arts.

Elektra, 1 > 10 may 2009, 10th edition. For more information: http://www.elektramontreal.ca/ and http://blog.elektramontreal.ca/

Alain Thibault is composer and director of Elektra festival. He will be in Paris for Presences, GRM festival of musical creation, for his piece “Volt+” (for video, ensemble and electronic).

Anne Laforet is a Net art specialist and researcher. She has just presented her thesis on net art preservation. She writes on electronic culture for Poptronics.fr and Arte.tv.

Upgrade!Paris sessions are organized by Incident.net. They are public, monthly and itinerants. Artists, researchers, architects, theorists present during one hour their recent work. Supported by the French Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication, it’s archives can be found here.