artefact festival

Leuven is breathing interactivity - even more these days thx to the artefact festival, an art and new media spectacle in the STUK (cultural center). I went there this evening and found it really inspiring. the works vary from idyllic dear-in-a-forest fairy tales (The endless forest), to cutting edge technologies (Life Support Systems: transferring a real orchid into a virtual organism) and amusing video installations (Man Os 1: what if your operating System on a mac was a person?). there is an obvious shift in the new media art scene away from pure technology based 'spielereien' to an intelligent manner of using interactivity and the digital media as a tool to express the message. just like in advertising nowadays :)
i got as well a bit sentimental remembering my own arty times: four years ago I participated as well on a new media festival in Italy with du·bi·ety.
The festival still takes place until saturday.