SPAM New Media Festival 2024: a space for critical exploration of digital art + culture

SPAM New Media Festival returns for its second year, bringing together art, technology, and immersive experiences in a radical 3-day event.

Taking place this September 27-29, at the historic 1907 Georgetown Steam Plant, this free, inclusive experimental arts festival will showcase work from over 36 local, national, and international artists pushing the boundaries of new media art.

The 2024 programming highlights cutting-edge explorations in video game technologies, animatronics, radio interventions, e-textiles, audio-visual installations, and digitally mediated sculptural works.

SPAM New Media Festival invites visitors to explore the multiple levels, hidden rooms, and corners of the Steam Plant, and discover a vast array of creative expressions, critically engaged, experimental, and research focused new media work.

In addition to this year’s program of installations and performances, Fantastic Ingenuity, in partnership with SPAM New Media Festival, will engage with the multifaceted conversation of Afrofuturism, through a rich blend of digital arts, textiles, fashion, visual art, performance, and storytelling.

Visit spamnewmediafestival.com for full details about this year's artists, installations, and performances.

About SPAM New Media Festival

SPAM bridges Seattle's cutting-edge creativity with the global new media art scene, blending the innovative spirit of UW's renowned DXARTS program with the raw energy of local experimenters and international talents. It's where global perspectives meet homegrown ingenuity, creating a unique space for radical artistic exploration.

SPAM New Media Festival is a grassroot, artist run organization. It's primary organizers are volunteers, and the festival happens with the enormous support of participating artists and other art community members.

About DXARTS (UW)

DXARTS is a ground-breaking department of creative practice-based research. Our mission is to support and empower new generations of artists who reimagine our emerging relationships with new technologies. As a department, DXARTS challenges current trends, develops new approaches to artistic discovery, embraces diversity, and looks towards the future while critically engaging with traditional forms. We strive to probe the unknown through experimentation across media and disciplines.