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There is an Electronic Arts Festival in Boulder over Earth Day weekend! Interested in learning more about it and it’s organizers (Communikey), I contacted Lauren Higgins Communikey’s Sustainability Director:

Communikey is a collective of multimedia artists, musicians and promoters, who collaborate to create forward thinking electronic arts environments, showcasing international and local talents. Communikey events provide a creative forum for the Boulder community to explore advanced electronic music and digital arts in an intimate setting, while gaining exposure to the global organism that is new media.

The Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts aims to expose new digital media to local communities and global enthusiasts alike. Seven main performances will showcase creativity in the form of visual art and music by diverse artists from around the globe. The festival unites digital arts, software workshops, panel discussions, and five interactive audio-visual installations around issues of ecological sustainability. The unique emphasis on sustainability in a technology-based culture will draw local business representatives and international innovators for in-depth discussions of positive and proactive solutions to our part in global environmental degradation. Communikey is working to ensure that the festival be made as ecologically friendly as possible through a commitment to a 7 point sustainability plan.

1. Zero waste
2. An educational forum on sustainability in a technology based culture
3. An organic commissary for artists and staff
4. A festival design that ensures all participants can walk, bike, or use public transportation conveniently to each event
5. The use of renewable energy whenever possible
6. An educational Green Business Expo
7. The use of art installations & interventions to integrate and explore the concept of sustainability

FEATURED ARTISTS:

• Communikey Festival presents a variety of new media installations; including ASKAA, a Photo Aleatoric Meditative Garden, from internationally renown act Skoltz_Kolgen.
• Communikey’s own Sustainable Media Lab presents CUBO, an interactive sound sculpture comprised of reclaimed materials and exploring notions of social architecture via a site-specific, locative sound track.
• Deniz Kurtel’s custom Color Kinetic intelligent lighting installation, hosted at Communikey’s home venue, Trilogy Wine Bar.

FEATURED VENUES:
ATLAS Institute, Boulder Museum of Cotemporary Art, Boulder Theater, Trilogy Wine Bar, City of Boulder Civic Plaza.

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