City to City - Human Responsibility
Virtual Gallery official online inauguration
Dec 10th 14h [WET]
Braga is a UNESCO Creative City in the field of Media Arts. Since 2017 we are part of a wider network of 246 cities that put creativity at the heart of their social, cultural and economic development.
The Braga International Video Dance Festival is promoting an open call for video works, which will be presented in Braga, on April 28. Films must be submitted by April 5th.
The UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts hosted this week a meeting of the European network EMAP - European Media Art Platform.
This weekend, local artists and national and international figures of reference meet again for another edition of OCUPA, which takes place at gnration. Braga, a UNESCO Creative City in the ...
"PoN! - The Island of the Tatus" is a mobile or tablet game that aims to engage young people around climate cause, sustainability, and biodiversity. Based on the idea that ...
Braga receives, this Saturday, the 2nd National Forum of UNESCO Networks, at Altice Forum Braga. This year's edition has the theme "The contribution of UNESCO Networks to build peace" and ...
Braga has been selected to host the XVI Annual Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in 2024. The decision was announced last Monday, the date that the United Nations ...
Over the next few days, the UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts Braga will receive the electronic music and digital art festival Semibreve. Until Sunday, several city spaces will host ...
The UNESCO Creative Cities for Media Arts of Braga and Kosice are participating in the Youth4Bauhaus project for young people on sustainable urban development. The project, funded by Erasmus +, ...
Applications for the next residencies of the European Media Art Platform (EMAP) are now open. For two months, between March and November 2023, the selected artists will collaborate with an artist of their choice or a local artist from the network's host institution.
From September 2nd to 4th, Braga hosts four works, from four other European and international partner cities, inserted in the group exhibition "Europe and Beyond". The art pieces by Jorge Ramos, ...
Braga, UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts, is a candidate to host 2024 the annual conference that brings together various representatives of the Network of Creative Cities of UNESCO. In the race with the Minho city is Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Creative City of Design.
The UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts in Košice, Slovakia, is hosting a two-month artist residency for artists and scientists. This Open Call offers a grant of 2000€ and is organized by Košice Creative Industry and KAIR Košice Artist in Residence (KAIR).
The project Imaginary Cartographies, inserted in the programming of Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service, and which brought together students from the creative cities for Media Arts of Braga ...
In partnership with Nu Boyana Portugal, the educational service of Braga Media Arts presents the BMA lab: making films - how to go from paper to screen, this Saturday, at ...
In October, the UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts Braga will once again stage the electronic music and digital art festival Semibreve. Alva Noto, Gábor Lázar, KMRU, Burnt Friedman with ...
Opens today, May 24, the exhibition eMMA - Exhibition of the Master in Media Arts of UMinho in Galeria do Paço. This exhibition features eight artistic projects by groups of students from the first edition of the Master in Media Arts of the University of Minho.
The video-dance performance Blossom/Florescer and the installation by Rui Sebastian are some of the highlights of the Politics festival program, which takes place from May 5th to 7th, in Braga. The festival takes place at the Braga Youth Center and admission is free.
From May 31 to June 3, a Learning, Teaching Training Activity (LTTA) will take place as part of the FAIaS - Fostering Artificial Intelligence at Schools project. The training takes ...
Braga and Enghien-les-Bains (France), UNESCO Creative Cities for Media Arts, are collaborating on the project Imaginary Cartographies, a project jointly promoted by Circuito Educational Service Braga Media Arts and the Centre des Arts from Enghien-les-Bains.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto are promoting an Advanced Training Course in Film and Television Directing, which will take place in an artistic residency format in Porto.
The 12th edition of the Semibreve festival counts, once again, with the Semibreve Award promoted by Edigma. Until July 15, works that explore the relationship between art and technology, presented in ...
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) is promoting an open call for an artist residency program in the areas of digital art, media art, and bio-art. The open call, aimed ...
The installation LIMBO, by João Carlos Pinto, is on display at Listasafn Reykjanesbærjar - Reykjanes Art Museum, in Iceland. The work of the artist from Braga can be visited until April 24 and is part of the "Memories from tomorrow" exhibition.
Tomorrow, February 24th, a Roundtable discussion on "Challenges of AI ethics and governance: from principles to practice" is taking place online. This webinar aims to identify ways to put ethical ...
MArteLive 2022 is looking for European artists in 16 creative areas. Dance, music, theater, digital illustration, photography, sculpture, and fashion design are some of the areas that are part of this competition festival. Applications are open until March 31st.
Medialab Matadero will promote interdisciplinary collaborative research and production labs. An open call is being held until February 27 for the intensive workshop "Collaborative Prototyping Lab", the first lab in ...
This Wednesday, February 9, Braga will once again be in the spotlight of the relationship between art and technology. From the main hall of Theatro Circo, the works resulting from ...
The Forum Arte Braga gallery receives the work When I Think of you I Shiver in Awe by the greek artist Manolis D. Lemos, in February. The work can be visited from February 17 to March 11.
The Audire project has open applications for the presentation of papers o and artistic works for the "Sound Experiences" Conference. The conference will take place in Braga, June 27-28.
This open call is intended for all creative professionals working in the field of Media Arts and/or Film; film students are also welcome to participate. The winning project will be ...
The Sound of the Year awards are back for another edition with over 16 categories competing. The initiative, organized by The Museum of Sound, The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop and ...
Braga and the French city Enghien-les-Bains are part of the official program of the Portugal - France 2022 Season, which runs from February to October 2022. Over the coming months, ...
Electronic music and digital art will once again be in focus at OCUPA. Over three days, the gnration will host performances, conversations, and exhibitions. The sixth edition will feature the presentation ...
Applications for artistic proposals for the 2022 edition of this Biennial of Art and Technology may be submitted until December 15th. This open call aims to select and support artistic ...
The City to City project won the "Best International Project" award from the Italian foundation Santagata. Created in 2020 by UNESCO's Creative Cities Network for Media Arts, City to City ...
Hamar (Norway), Modena (Italy), Campina Grande (Brazil), Namur (Belgium) and Tbilisi (Georgia) are the new five UNESCO Creative Cities for Media Arts.
The opening of the exhibition "In bed with a mosquito" takes place this Saturday at Duarte Sequeira Gallery. The opening takes place at 18:00 and admission is free.
The 2022 edition of Index will take place between May 12th and 22th and will explore the concept of Surface. Index is an Art and Technology Biennial, inserted in the program of the city of Braga as a UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts.
Index is looking for artistic proposals at the intersection between Art and Technology with close links to the theme of the 2022 Biennial, which will integrate its online program.
The multidisciplinary artist from Braga, Miguel De, presents the performance concert "PNRM". The show takes place on October 24th, at 22:30, at Centro da Juventude de Braga.
The installation LIMBO, by the artist João Carlos Pinto, from Braga, is on display at Connected Future - The Media Art Festival Seasons of Media Arts, in Karlsruche, until October ...
The “Minho Storytelling – New Perspectives on Minho” Award, the Minho Innovation Consortium - led by the Intermunicipal Communities of Alto Minho, Ave and Cávado - is now promoting the ...
Košice – UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts
invites media artists for a two-month stay in Košice in autumn 2021.
This summer, the Nabi Art Center will host the Nabi Online Hackathon <Hello, World !: new playground> event, under the theme Artificial Intelligence, from August 12th to 14th. Art Center ...
With the support of Braga Media Arts, the University of Minho launches a Master's Degree in Media Arts and reinforces the university's centrality in Braga's cultural and creative sphere.
The International Conference on Sustainability Transitions (IST) takes place October 5-8, 2021, organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems Research and Innovation (ISI) in a UNESCO Media Arts city in ...
The international ArtsIT conference of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and comes after stops all over the world to the UNESCO Creative City of Media ...
The cities of Austin (USA), Braga (Portugal), Calí (Colombia), Changsha (China), Dakar (Senegal), Enghien-les-Bains (France), Guadalajara (Mexico), Gwangju (South Korea), Karlsruhe (Germany), Kosice (Slovakia), Sapporo (Japan), Toronto (Canada), Viborg (Denmark), ...
Are you responsible or a collaborator in an institution in the city of Braga? Perto is a cycle of exploration of sound exploration for institutionalized communities, providing an active and surely beneficial artistic experience.
gnration is promoting the 2021 Summer Laboratories edition. An initiative that offers financial and logistical support for the creation of artistic content. Applications are open until 16 May.
The IMPROVISA. Life in Motion Consortium invites EU artists to submit proposals with new approaches to engaging audiences in cultural and heritage contents through the principles of improvisation and the use of mobile technologies
Given the current needs of the cultural sector, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has decided to support artistic training and creation, individual and collective, across visual arts, cinema, theatre and dance.
This year, ArtCamp Andorra - "Colours for the planet" aims to promote cultural diversity, peace dialogue between artists, and sustainable development. The 7th ArtCamp Andorra will take place from 14 to 25 July, in Ordino, principality of Andorra.
Tallinn Art Hall, Tirana Art Lab Center for Contemporary Art, and the Hertz-Lab of the ZKM I Center for Art and Media are jointly calling for European art practitioners / theoreticians to apply for one of three production residencies taking place in Karlsruhe, Tallinn, and Tirana.
This year, the ILFU International Literature Festival Utrecht will be launching the ILFU International Story Contest. On the theme of ‘Rising’, anyone aged 16 and over can submit a story in ...
It was last Friday that Theatro Circo presented, in a press conference, the results for the year 2019, as well as an analysis of all the activity created during the confinement and post-confinement period.
Containment measures or mobility restrictions adopted by many countries to contain the pandemic have drastically restricted access to culture, making the whole cultural ecosystem fragile, in particular through the closure ...
Trans Europe Halles calls for emerging civic initiatives with a focus on arts, culture and creativity that are located in repurposed buildings to participate in the fourth edition of the Startup ...
Pitroda Art gallery is promoting a series of actions that aim to put art as an engine for social transformation. MOVEMENT is the name of a set of activities that ...
Digital Earth is now receiving applications for the "Digital Earth Fellowship" 2020-2021. Aimed at 8 artists and/or duos from different practices, this fellowship starts in September 2020 and ends in May 2021, with a total of €13.500 per fellow for the entire fellowship.
"Audire" project, from the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) of the University of Minho, is promoting a round table on the theme "ESCUTAR, SENTIR, GUARDAR - Sound experience and acoustic ecology". The presentation will take place at July 17, at 11am.
Until July 22, Circuito is promoting an open call aimed at all residents of Braga, those who have always lived here and those who chose the city to live, to participate in the collaborative show “Igual diz-se de muitas maneiras”.
Circuito – Braga Media Arts Educational Service is still looking for digital musicians to join ODE - Electronic Devices Orchestra. If you want to make music from laptops, tablets, smartphones and synthesizers, apply now!
Braga Cultura 2030, the cultural strategy that is preparing Braga's candidacy for the European Capital of Culture 2027, prepared a survey addressed to all artists, cultural agents and colaborators of ...
Semibreve's 10th edition will feature once again the Semibreve Award sponsored by Edigma, a Portuguese company leader in the development of interactive experiences, multi-touch technology and digital signage projects.
Creative City Košice is launching an open call for artists who are either born, live, or work in any of UNESCO Creative Cities, for a two-month artistic residency. The art project ...
Today, starting at 6:30 pm, you can watch the Round Table "Error in the context of creative and technological processes", which took place at gnration on February 29th, in the context of "Construção de um index #1".
Braga based Duarte Sequeira Gallery will be participating in ARCO Lisboa 2020 Online in a partnership with Artsy, presenting works by artists Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Petros Moris, Vanessa da Silva and Mimosa Echard.
Today, starting at 6:30 pm, you can watch the Round Table "Art, technology and science: new paths for a long relationship", which took place at gnration on February 29th, in the context of "Construção de um index #1".
Workshop "Sampling as a musical composition tool", led by musician David Bruno is online and available on Youtube until next May 31. To watch please click here.
Finding technological solutions that promote adult literacy throughout life was the motto for the creation of Gulbenkian Award for Adult Literacy, promoted by the foundation in partnership with Solve - MIT.
Until May 13 you can submit applications for the 1st edition of Marvelous Art Magazine, from Marvelous Art Gallery
Covid-19 pandemic forced many companies to change routines, cases like Your Podcast.
Applications for the open call "Portuguese Emerging Art 2020" run until 30 June.
If you want to have access to art and culture without leaving your home, Museu dos Biscainhos, in Braga, is offering virtual guided tours.
Many doors were closed at the beginning of 2020. Uncertainties, lethargy, distress, but also institutions and people who did not want to let their arms down. zet gallery is an exemple of that.
This is the first edition of PARTIS & Art for Change.
Cosmic Burger launched an online campaign to raise funds to support artists,struggling due to the current events.
The application deadline ends on April 30th.
It is called “Somos Tod@s Digitais” and wants to help those who have to stay at home. Digital skills are fundamental to break social isolation.
Guadalajara, UNESCO's creative city, in partnership with the British Council and the Promoting Council for Innovation and Design are promoting an online creative sprint, a space for dialogue that allows the exchange of ideas.
gnration promotes this year, the fifth edition of the Summer Laboratories. Aimed at artists or communities in the district of Braga that produce original artistic content, the initiative kicks off on August 3, with a monetary support of 1500 euros per project.
“Doing Business”, ScaleUp Porto event that reaches its 5th edition, will be held this year in partnership with UPTEC - Science and Technology Park of Universidade do Porto.
Tomorrow Theatro Circo celebrates 105 years of existence. A birthday that this year, due to unexpected circumstances, is celebrated virtually.
How can the cultural and creative industries help to overcome the new challenges we face? And how can national and local governments relieve the short and long-term effects of this crisis on the creative industries?
After launching the #ShareOurHeritage campaign, UNESCO celebrates World Arts Day this wednesday and launches another global movement. It is called ResiliArt and consists of a series of virtual debates and initiatives on social networks.
Having witnessed the birth of index in 2019, this year Braga will receive a set of sessions entitled construção de um inex, an event that will bridge the first edition of index - Bienal de Media Arts, to take place in 2021.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian opened applications for grants to support projects in the field of visual arts, curatorship, cinema, theater and dance.
The next Technarte International Conference on Art and Technology will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 6-7, 2020.
OSSO Colectivo launched its artistic residency programme.
They invite artists and practice-based researchers from all areas to submit an application.
For family reasons, the workshop “A Closer Listen”, by Jana Winderen, has been canceled. Previously scheduled for January 25 and recently postponed at the request of the artist, the workshop will not have a next replacement date.
The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award three Grants for Media Art of the Foundation of Lower Saxony.
Applications for the international digital art prize Lumen Prize, organized annually by Lumen Art Projects, will run from February 15 to May 5, 2020.
You can now sign in for the 1st Edition of Advanced Courses, organized by the Laboratory of Applied Artificial Intelligence (2Ai), from IPCA(Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e Ave).
Imaginando, a technology startup that creates tools and instruments for the music industry, is developing a platform with an American company, a kind of Skype for Pro Audio.
Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts.
In 2019 Braga saw the birth of Index, the first international event focused on the relationship between art and technology, created since the city was awarded the title of creative ...
The UNESCO Austin City of Media Arts Steering Committee, in partnership with the Cultural Arts Division within the Economic Development Department is receiving applications for UNESCO's International Media Arts Exhibition. Artists must be at least 18 years old.
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service is receiving applications for the community show Equal is said in many ways. The challenge is launched to all new or old residents of Braga. Participants must be over 16 and. Sign up for free until May 8th.
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service is receiving applications for ODE: Electronic Devices Orchestra. If you're between 15 and 18, sign up for free until March 25!
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service will present itself to the world during Noite Branca Braga 2019. Save the date: September 6th, 21h30, at Palco Praça.
O Teatro Circo, EM, S.A., entidade responsável pela implementação do plano de ação de Braga Media Arts, Cidade Criativa da UNESCO, no âmbito do CIRCUITO (serviço educativo de Braga Media ...
index - of art and technology was officially launched yesterday at gnration.
Open Rehearsal of Artistic Residency "Calígula Morreu. Eu não." July 6th - 16h00 @ gnration
INL has launched a new mobility program under the nanoGateway project.
Now you can know everything that is happening in Braga in the area of Media Arts through our newsletter.
Braga Media Arts Educational Service and Terra Amarela are looking for 5 people to join the work group of the Creative Workshop Calígula Morreu. Eu não.
Media artist João Martinho Moura has two exhibitions in South Korea. How Computers Imagine Humans? in the context of ISEA 2019 in Gwangju and Sci-fi Miners at the Nabi Art Center in Seoul.
The Instant Ensemble interprets the classic film of rare public presentations, "A Dança dos Paroxismos" (1929), by Jorge Brum do Canto, in an audiovisual show for the whole family.
This third phase of the RoadShow takes us to Maximinos Secondary School for a pedagogical intervention of Product Design students from the University of Minho, focused on groups of blind and low vision students.
“ARTECH 2019 – Digital Media Art Ecosystems” is the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, hosted in the city of Braga, Portugal and organized by the Association Artech-International, Theatro Circo and UCP.
Experience Changsha Media Arts Residency was part of the Changsha Media Arts Festival and the International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Road. In the Chinese city, ...
The artistic cycle Binário presents some of the most exciting audiovisual performances that can be seen today. On May 8, Canadian artists Alexis Langevin-Tétrault, Guillaume Côté and Dave Gagnon, stepped onto the stage of gnration to perform "Falaises".
Semibreve festival returns to Braga once again to celebrate digital arts along the Semibreve prize in collaboration with Edigma, which is open to works in the area of audiovisual, technology and interactivity.
Braga goes back to wearing white in 2019, with various activities ranging from street entertainment to performances or installation. To complement this program, Bracara Augusta Foundation launches an open call to all the community.
RoadShow returns in the last week of April for another show of works, this time with six short films prepared by IPCA's School of Design, exhibited in two secondary schools of Braga.
The Educational Service of Braga Media Arts invites singers or choirs to participate in the project "community show", integrated in the White Night Braga 2019.
The international Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Encontros da Imagem, returns in 2019 for another edition spread throughout the city, bringing again a call for artists.
BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, returns this year with passage through Braga. Various installations, performances and exhibitions will be exhibited in various spaces of the city, between March 15 and April 30.
The Mini Sound Map is the latest activity of Braga Media Arts Education Service, proposed for the 2018/2019 school year. A set of interactive and audiovisual maps that describe schools by their students.
The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is an experimental grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. They are currently admitting applications for issues related to technology.
On December 7th, the Municipality of Braga presented the development of a Cultural Strategy, called 'Braga Cultura 2030', for the 2020-2030 time horizon.
In the next academic year, a new cycle of workshops in the area of media arts under the BMA umbrella will be open. BMA lab brings together three initiatives from January ...
This set of Short Term Trainings, prepared by the Braga Media Arts educational service fills the space between creation, Media Arts and the community. It serves so that teachers can improve and acquire new pedagogical and technical tools to be applied in the classroom.
“Braga is living testimony of a transversality, ecumenism, of openness for over a millennium.”
“Some of the main attributes of the city are its youth, its creativity, the innovative spirit that is very much associated with a very strong technological dynamics, connected with research centers and universities.”
“Events such as Semibreve Festival, Encontros da Imagem, the Theatro Circo and gnration programming, have been highlighting the name of Braga and fostering a growing artistic activity.”
“There is a great appetite and curiosity of Braga's young and old creators for using a technological component in their more traditional activities.”
“We have been witnessing this growth over the last few years and Braga really has a creative power in the digital arts areas.”