DA Z: Zurich gets a new digital festival
An international festival for digital art DA Z (Digital Art Zurich) is to take place in Zurich for the first time in spring 2020. The festival is being conceived and realized by Riverside Culture, the new company for cultural projects. DA Z is dedicated exclusively to digital forms of visual art. The initiators are announcing a program of the highest level in terms of content and art.
The organizers: Barbara Seiler, Tanja Hollenstein and Hans Peter Riegel (from left).
The DA Z Festival will take place annually at the beginning of May. Over the course of several days, exhibitions, installations, interventions, performances, music events and talks dealing with current developments in digital art will take place at various locations in Zurich's art hotspot between the internationally renowned art center "Löwenbräukunst" and the ZHdK art academy.
What sets DA Z apart from other digital festivals is its exclusive focus on art. This means that social issues are not addressed in symposia or panel events, but solely in the expressive forms of digital art.
The festival was initiated by the renowned media artist, art historian and author Hans Peter Riegel and the strategy and communications expert Tanja Hollenstein. The founding team is complemented by gallery owner Barbara Seiler. In addition to its own team of ambitious art educators, the festival invites prominent guest curators to shape individual areas of the festival.
At the end of May, DA Z will present its team, the curators and the program.
With the first edition of DA Z, the initiators refer to the legacy of Tweakfest, the first, now legendary digital culture festival in Zurich. In this context, DA Z will take over the Tweakfest archive. The Tweakfest took place from 2005 to 2010. Hans Peter Riegel was involved as an artist with his project SIS.TM.
