Digital Art a la Carte 2008
VIDEOGAMES, LIVE-CINEMA, YOUTUBE AND NOTODOFILMFEST.COM

Sonar a la Carte is the festival’s Mediatheque. Each year, specialists are invited to curate a series of showcases based on different themes. Digital Art a la Carte, one of the three Sonar a la Carte sections, shows us the evolution of art made using digital media. As part of El Cine Más Allá del Cinema Digital Art a la Carte is part presents some of the new spheres of contemporary audiovisual production through four exhibitions:
Homo Ludens On The Net deals with the history of Videogames, the sector that has replaced cinema as the largest entertainment industry in the 21st Century This showcase, generated within the framework of a larger project by Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, is a compilation of some of the most important projects in the history of videogames, offering us a glimpse of an important story that is yet to be written.
 
(Post?) Live Cinematic Explorations In The Era Of Realtime takes us into one of the most important areas of audiovisual production in recent times: Live-Cinema. The nineties VJ scene, which emerged from club culture, has evolved towards increasingly narrative patterns, where live shows are created in real time and driven by the desire to tell a story. Is it possible to have a form of cinema that is created as it is screened? That's what this selection explores.
 
Portals like YouTube and GoogleVideo are like a huge collective, participative video library for the new millennium. Thousands of users, driven by the DIY possibilities, post their own audiovisual productions on the web, creating a new style book that is starting to influence professionals. Director Jonathan Caouette, pioneer of the use of Internet in cinema, leaves the camera aside and takes on the role of programmer, showing us his favourite online videos in his selection All You Zombies.
 
Finally, Bigas Lunas and the online festival Notodofilmfest.com present a selection of the best short films from their last festival program, providing proof that the short film form is in excellent health on the Internet, where time - more than anywhere else - is gold. The more than 5,000 short films submitted over the festival’s six-year history leave no doubt that this is a vibrant scene, and Bigas Luna, one of the most inquiring and cutting-edge filmmakers in Spain, shows us some of its most outstanding works.