FILE Sao Paulo 2008 :: Fiesp Cultural Center :: August 5 - 31, 2008 :: Opening: August 4.

The program occupies the Fiesp Cultural Center’s Art Gallery, Theater and Mezzanine, which host the exhibition, performances and lectures. FILE, the major art and technology festival in Brazil and Latin America, as well as one of the most renowned events in the world in this area, for nine years has inserted the country in the global context of art and technology, or media art, performing a compilation of the artistic productions in the fields of electronic and digital arts, and working as an indicator of those productions’ plurality. Given the diversity of digital culture, FILE is an event that nests several festivals, which occur simultaneously. Moreover, FILE offers an international symposium, an archive with more than 2,000 works and a laboratory for the production and development of new works, FILE Labo. FILE is an annual event that in 2008 has happened, with other versions, in Porto Alegre, at Santander Cultural, and in Rio de Janeiro, at Oi Futuro. This ninth edition of FILE includes around 300 artists - among groups, collectives and individual works - from more than 30 nationalities, with works in different areas of the digital culture.

FILE Hipersonica: One of the main attractions of the Festival is the sixth edition of FILE Hipersonica, that happens in August 05 to 08 at SESI’s Popular Theater, with free admission. Hipersonica is an event that emphasizes musical, sonic, visual and performatic manifestations of electronic art. This edition will present nine Brazilian and international artists who work in the edge of music and image. The presentations will explore different techniques of sound capturing, producing, emitting and programming.